Easy to use data visualization tool
Updated July 07, 2025

Easy to use data visualization tool

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

Software Version

Power BI Premium

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is useful for designing and developing visual dashboards by connecting data from sources such as SQL, sharepoint, etc .The development canvas supports drag and drop allowing to drag a visualization and also configure the fields of the visualization using drag and drop. Also it allows the automatic refresh of data from the original source by just scheduling the time of refresh which helps to ensure that the users are viewing the latest and most accurate data in the visualizations of the dashboard

Pros

  • Connects easily to the Microsoft data sources such as sharepoint files,onedrive,SQL etc very seamlessly and authenticates directly using your account
  • Has a lot of inbuilt visual charts which are useful for creating visualizations in the dashboard
  • The data query editor is very powerful and supports a wide variety of data transformations

Cons

  • Carrying out data transformation on large data sets is very time consuming as previewing data at each step takes a lot of time
  • Data visibility has improved a lot. A dashboard can be shared to a wide er audience from multiple departments location easily by publishing to a common workspace improving better collaboration among team member and allowing them to make informed decisions based on data
Easy to use and the user interface is very user friendly and intuitive and all the options to be used are easily available and can be accessed easily

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Power BI go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?

Yes

Microsoft Power BI is useful to convert data which is stored as eg table in sharepoint lists to meaningful visuals with simple drag and drop . Once the dashboard is published into a workspace there are options to configure views for selected audience which can help in sharing only required data to selective users. The mobile app is useful as you can quickly view the dashboard directly on your mobile device

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.3
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
9.7
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.5
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
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
9.6
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
9.5
REST API
9
Javascript API
10
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated

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