Great Tool for visualising
March 04, 2025

Great Tool for visualising

Susan Hardacre MAAT CIMA DIP MA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We use Microsoft Power BI to analyse our hours for train crew. We have over 1000 train crew who are all on annualised contracts, we need to ensure all the staff are utilised and are using their hours efficiently. It gives us info to tell us where they are at any expected point. We need to understand where our overtime is being spent which in turns tells us where we have issues covering trains. We can then see if we need more staff in that area to cover the trains running, or is it sickness that is driving it or do we need more learning to ensure that route is covered. Train data from vogerplan is old fashioned, it comes in a csv file format and hard to understand by using the Microsoft Power BI report it gives it readable information. By combining multiple data sheets from excel this allows us to pull a useful Microsoft Power BI report which can be used for financial data and for the management team to you to make strategic decisions. It can be shared and viewed among the business and has helped massively to see the issues the business was experiencing. We can now make decisions and change things using the report, its visual and can be delved into if you need more information

Pros

  • Delving into info
  • Once built can be refreshed with new info
  • Looks attractive
  • Easy to read

Cons

  • More help building
  • Filters to be improved
  • Reducing overtime bill
  • Utilising the hours we have paid for already
  • Training the people and getting staff in the right locations
  • Sickness reporting
It’s the initial building but once a reports built it’s easy to use. Many people offer free training but it’s a case of using it with your data to get what you need, it uses APIs or excel database The reports look good, professional and are used on board reporting

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?

Yes

Digging into vast amounts of data which can be unreadable and hard to understand. By bringing the data sources into Microsoft Power BI this allows users to see the info and easy to read what’s going on in the business in a graphical format. It’s used in board meetings where we can delve and get answers immediately without going to numerous data

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Report-Level Access Control
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9
REST API
9

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