Microsoft Power BI - Versatile Dashboarding Tool
March 06, 2025

Microsoft Power BI - Versatile Dashboarding Tool

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

Software Version

Power BI Pro

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is used in 2 ways in my org. First one is to connect to backend data in some database and then to create insights using in built visuals. And another way is to convert raw data in excel or csv files into Power Query and that doing some data transformations and then build visuals on top of it.

Pros

  • In Built Visuals
  • Powerfull Power Query engine
  • Powerful DAX engine which can be used to write complex measures

Cons

  • More visuals are always welcome
  • UX could be more intuitive
  • It reduces time to market for lot of dashboard heavy projects
It is an extreamly versatile tool for dashboard generation, giving you an ability to do ETL work as well.

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 is well suited for dashboarding. Also it is well suited where you have data in csv or excel format and then you want to do some transformations first before building dashboards.

However it is not that suitable if you have a very big data size.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.7
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
7
7.3
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
3
Report sharing and collaboration
9
8.0
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
8.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Report-Level Access Control
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated

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