Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Power BI	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.	$10 per month per user

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Microsoft Power BI
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI All others apps are enablers and Microsoft Power BI is the visual that end user sees which often adds more value to the end user to make strategic decisions from this. All are equally great but Microsoft Power BI is the end result Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau Power BI cheaper and works well with Microsoft tools. Tableau has better visuals but is costly. Microsoft Power BII vs. Looker Looker is good for big data, but Microsoft Power BI is easier to use. Microsoft Power BI vs. Qlik Qlik is fast for big … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI provide a user friendly in many ways to analyse the data and visualization of the data .Stacking makes the works easier easily attach the table ,chart row and column through the various available tool ..it also reduces the work part and manpower mechanically … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is more flexible and it requires less effort in order to create a working environment. The results have an attractive and customizable display. The model is a star schema therefore it do not require specific database adaptation. Excel and csv files could be … Incentivized Helpful? Tanner Ingalls Data Product Manager & Data Scientist in Product Management at REDX (Real Estate, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is free. If I didn't want to create a custom platform (i.e. my organization insisted on an existing platform that I had to use), I'd use Microsoft Power BI. For any start-up or SMB, I'd just use Claude & Grok to build it quickly, also for free. Would … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Same need to be large scale. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is easier to learn, a lot of examples on YouTube, internet documentation books helps to the implementation and personalization of the dashboards easier to use than other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Compared to this tool, Microsoft Power BI doesn't involve heavy coding and provides user friendly interface to visualize data. Microsoft Power BI reports can be shared and published without exposing your source code. Also, the reports are interactive providing drill down … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Aldridge Learning Analytics Lead in Human Resources at Ryman Healthcare (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is much simple to use, and more modern than BusinessObjects, which has now been discontinued. It costs much less to license than Tableau which is perhaps more niche and designed better. It is also much more powerful for data analysis than excel, Smartsheet, Airtable, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Some of the strengths are 1. User-Friendliness 2. Self-Service BI (Caters to all levels of the employees 3. Cost-effective. 4. Easy integration with Microsoft Suits. 5. DAX Calculations 6. Familiar Interface like traditional Excel. 7. Easier Self-Service platform for … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Higgins System operations in Information Technology at DP Wagner (Logistics & Supply Chain, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI It's got a larger user base and seems better supported. Personally it feels like alot more work getting comparable results from Tableau. Microsoft Power BI will be WAY easier to work with all your various data sources, if you are working in an environment with M365 already. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI After several years using Google Looker Studio and BigQuery, Microsoft Power BI is a step-up in terms of visualizations. It is also much more powerful, leading to less errors and has a more intuitive interface. Looker Studio has a focus on Google Analytics whereas Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI NA - did not use any other software, yet. Happy with the services and features provided by Microsoft Power BI which helps us navigate through the client requests on a daily basis while also providing actionable insights / solutions with maximum efficiency and that too in a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI It's the most widely used tool in most organizations Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Each has a different function. I think Microsoft Power BI is easier to use than Tableau and cheaper but SQL and databricks have so much more versatility Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI We use Microsoft Power BI in addition to other software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI I prefer Power BI because of its affordability and fewer complicated tools than Tableau. It's easy to use and compatible with other Microsoft products, which are mostly used in the IT industry. It's not limited to only one platform like Looker Studio, which is mostly used in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is more flexible and can also handle more complex reporting scenarios. While Microsoft Excel is a great tool for analyzing data building visuals is not what it is made for. It is complicated to create Excel reports that will be interactive as a use wants to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Qlik also builds dashboards upon your data. It's more expensive as Microsoft Power BI and needs as much training as Microsoft Power BI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Being Microsoft environment it is extremely easy to interconnect the application with other Microsoft tools, such as power point or excel. On top of that, also communication through Microsoft teams is enabled which can result in very good collaboration and exchange of feedback … Incentivized Helpful? Megan Baak Paralegal in Legal at Texas Capital Bank (Banking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI We actually chose both Power BI and Quantum Metric. We use them for different things, but they are very similar tools. Quantum does a good job of integrating with our website and app traffic, whereas we use Power BI for data analysis and importing data sets for further review. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI We have used Microsoft Power BI for almost seven years. When looking for a reporting platform, remember that you are about to make a long-term choice. Moving reports to another system isn't easy. If you have, for example, more than 100 reports, the move to a different platform … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Microsoft Power BI

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.5120 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	10.0140 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.0128 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 140 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.0139 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	9.0138 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.0103 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.0135 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.0129 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.0122 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.0102 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.0104 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	9.074 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.7 136 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	9.0131 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.0122 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	9.0102 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	9.01 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.0121 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0102 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	10.0111 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.394 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.0111 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.793 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.7112 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings
REST API	8.072 Ratings
Javascript API	9.956 Ratings
iFrames	8.055 Ratings
Java API	8.046 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.163 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.444 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (142 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (58 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (53 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (82 ratings)
Data Sources	9.0 (81 ratings)