Item: Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Shiv Shrotriya

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Power BI is being used as a primary reporting tool across whole organization. It provides attractive GUI compare to other existing tools such as QlikView and Qliksense. Also it enables end users to build their own reports if data model is ready as development is very easy (drag and drop approach).

Pros and Cons

Attractive GUI compare to other tools
Development is easy
very low maintenance
Easy connectivity with other Microsoft platforms

Connectivity with more sources such as SAP
functionality to maintain history (snapshots)

Return on Investment

Customer Satisfaction with dashboards
Insights of business
low cost compare to other tools such as Tableau
very low maintenance

Alternatives Considered

QlikView and Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics)

Cost effective compare to other tools(QlikView, Tableau CRM), license is much cheaper than other BI tools.
Easy development and preferred by customers.
offer attractive representation of data, power BI gives almost 250 different kinds of charts and graphs to represent the data.
maintenance is very low as cloud based solution.
With DAX, you can perform complex calculations in dashboards.

Key Insights

Do you think Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

QlikView, Tableau Desktop, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

Usability

We are satisfied with the functionality and capabilities of Power BI. Product is cost effective and full-fill the reporting requirements of the organization. You can perform most of the report level complex analysis with the help of DAX which makes Power BI very powerful analytic tool. Power BI for Office 365 has gone away and Power BI is the next evolution of it. Power BI comes with your Office 365 E5 subscription or you can purchase licensing for it separately.

Support Rating

as of now there is strong community for Power BI, you can get solution for most of your problems from there. Also you can send your error to Microsoft as well. After every 15 days they release updates to overcome all the issues of defects.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have perfect data model ready and ETL team to build the data as per business need then its very amazing tool with eye catching GUI and development will be very quick.
but if you need to build snapshot kind of logic and need to maintain the history then this tool will not work.

Microsoft cloud based amazing Reporting tool for

Overall Satisfaction with Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)