Easy to create and embed interactive and engaging dashboards for large datasets
March 02, 2022

Easy to create and embed interactive and engaging dashboards for large datasets

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

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI Embedded

We needed a tool to track the rollout of the O365 mobile apps to the several thousand corporate mobile users within the company, in a way that was visual and engaging. We built an interactive Power BI dashboard which was embedded into an existing web application used by the core project team and project stakeholders. The dashboard showed the number of users who had followed the installation process, and could be filtered by region, country, company code, job role, division etc.
  • Easily embedded into existing web application
  • Allowed us to easily create engaging interactive dashboards
  • Displayed rollout data in a meaningful way and made it easy to report to the project sponsor and senior management
  • It was a little difficult to work out how to create certain visualisations, but there is extensive online help material to support with this.
  • Had some issues with assigning pro licences but these were quickly resolved
  • Small learning curve but no more so than similar applications
  • Ease of use
  • Speed of creating visualizations and making changes
  • Ability to create interactive and engaging dashboards to be used by senior stakeholders
  • Saved a significant amount of time for reporting current rollout status to project stakeholders
  • Project stakeholders were able to view the live dashboards at any time so felt they had a better understanding of the rollout status
  • Project stakeholders found it beneficial that they were able to set their own filters. For example, to view rollout status for their own departments.
I personally found Microsoft Power BI Embedded easier to use than Tableau. Compared to Microsoft Excel, I found it easier to create more complex reports and dashboards against larger datasets. We had a huge amount of data to display and Microsoft Power BI Embedded made this easy to show in an interactive dashboard that was embedded into an internal web application.

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Power BI Embedded go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI Embedded again?

Yes

We found that Microsoft Power BI Embedded met our requirements completely. It was particularly well suited to meet our need to create engaging and interactive visual dashboards to track the rollout of the O365 mobile applications to all of our mobile users company wide. It was probably less well suited for scenarios where only a small, simple visualisation is required - in these cases an Excel chart embedded into PPT would be suitable.