Microsoft Power BI Review -- A Great Tool
March 04, 2025

Microsoft Power BI Review -- A Great Tool

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

Software Version

Power BI Pro

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We utilize Microsoft Power BI to showcase trends in sales, help replenishment for our warehouse, and various other metrics tracking. This allows us to quickly make decisions and dive deep into areas that stray from normal trends. It also allows us to make larger scale decisions by looking at the data zoomed out.

Pros

  • Dynamic display
  • Easy to read charts
  • double click to zoom in on the data

Cons

  • complex views
  • more filters available
  • faster refresh time
  • Frees up IT bandwidth
  • Faster communication
  • Self service, freeing up more training bandwidth
Building out a report on Microsoft Power BI is relatively easy, and the user friendliness allows for changes in the display to happen quickly. It's straightforward enough that more folks than just our IT department can go into it and be able to design at least a simple report, and it's got the ability to allow our super users to create highly complex designed reports as well.
While excel can be useful for a very quick data dump, Microsoft Power BI is able to bring that data to life, and show trends and the actual story of what is happening. Microsoft Power BI is the ultimate display tool, and allows us to share information quickly to the CORRECT group of people, due to it's easy to use permission capability.

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

Microsoft Power BI has been helpful in quickly giving a summary to our executive team on particular data points. We can easily start zoomed way out, looking at the data from a very high level. Microsoft Power BI lets us zoom into the details as when we want to change focus to a particular part of the business, allowing us to do all of this without changing to a different tool.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
8.0
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
8.4
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
8
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
7
8.6
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Report-Level Access Control
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9
8.0
REST API
8
Javascript API
8
Java API
8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
8

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