A great tool
March 04, 2025

A great tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Power BI Premium

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We use Microsoft Power BI to prepare reports from our ITSM tool. We track ticket SLA, user feedback, MTTR etc. We use the report to identify top problems or top cause of high-ticket count and get the issue resolved. Meanwhile, we also ensure that user who raise tickets are satisfied with our service.

Pros

  • Importing Data
  • Preparing reports
  • DAX formulas

Cons

  • Report colors are outdated, and they need to be revamped.
  • Formatting charts is very confusing.
  • DAX queries are very technical. They can be simplified.
  • As a M365 user, Microsoft Power BI was free for us except for publishing in teams.
  • Compared to Tableau, it has more data connectivity options enabling us to form better reports.
  • Default colors are dull, and formatting consumes too much effort.
Importing data is easy. Whether it be from web, excel, pdf etc. It's all matter of click.
Cleaning report is also child's play.
Manual effort is required in forming relations among tables.
Reading csv data gets corrupted sometimes also.
Creating report is easy.
Making report aesthetic is time consuming.
Summarized column is a good thing.
Compared to this tool, Microsoft Power BI doesn't involve heavy coding and provides user friendly interface to visualize data. Microsoft Power BI reports can be shared and published without exposing your source code. Also, the reports are interactive providing drill down support. In Microsoft Power BI, you just don't show data. You interact with it.

Do you think Microsoft Power BI delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Power BI's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Power BI live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Power BI go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?

Yes

It is well suited if
- You want to the report to refresh automatically according to connected report.
- You are ready for a higher learning curve like creating calculated column.

It is less suited if
- You are looking for better themes for creating report.
- You are seeing Microsoft Power BI as an ETL tool.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
10.0
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
7.5
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
8
7.0
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Delivery to Remote Servers
7
9.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
8
8.2
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
5
Report-Level Access Control
6
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
6.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
4
5.3
REST API
6
Javascript API
6
Java API
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
3

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