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Microsoft Power BI

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9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. Connect to hundreds of data sources and bring your data to life with live dashboards and reports.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power BI won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

9 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

7 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Power BI Ratings

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91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?

1% Negative

3% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Collaboration

Real-Time Visualization

Data Modelling Tools

BI Security

Operational Reporting Capabilities

BI Platform Administration

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Spatial Analysis

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Score 8.9

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Naveen S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Mar 2024

POwer BI- Best Visualization Tool Ever

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

One key differentiator of Microsoft Power BI is its seamless integration with the broader Microsoft ecosystem, enabling users to leverage existing data sources and workflows within familiar Microsoft applications such as Excel, Azure, and Dynamics 365.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Power BI is the most user friendly analytics software. It has the most user friendly interface out of all other softwares available in the market for data visualization. It provides almost all types of graphs, charts and visuals needed for analytics. The data transformation capability offered by Power BI (Power Query) helps in transforming data on the go.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Users should have some expertise in writing SQL queries and DAX language which is being used to create the calculated columns and measures so this is the only militation I can see in PowerBI. However, in Paginated reports there is no much technical expertise is required.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For someone considering Microsoft Power BI, I would recommend the following: 1. Take advantage of the free trial: Microsoft offers a free trial of Power BI, allowing you to explore its features and capabilities before committing to a subscription. 2. Invest time in learning: Power BI offers extensive documentation, tutorials, and community support. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the platform and its features to maximize its potential. 3. Start small and iterate: Begin by focusing on a specific use case or project, and gradually expand as you become more comfortable with the platform.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Mahesh C.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Mar 2024

Power BI is the “Power”

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

It’s easy to understand if you are good in excel. Power BI is my life my reporting completely depends upon power BI. It’s easy to understand, numbers, charts provided are best.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Efficiency in reporting

What do you dislike most about this product?

At times I face latency when I try to check analysis between months. It takes time to load a report if we select 6 months period but that’s okay

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I highly recommend this product for efficient reporting, this saves time, initially one may find but difficulty to understand.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Abhay C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Strong but still has potential for development

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

With its smooth integration into the Microsoft ecosystem, Microsoft Power BI shines, providing customers with compatibility for SQL Server, Excel, and Azure services. It stands out thanks to its user-friendly interface, extensive visualization choices, and high degree of customization. Furthermore, Power BI is a great option for data analytics since it manages big datasets effectively and is updated frequently.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The smooth integration of Microsoft Power BI with other Microsoft applications, which optimizes data flow for effective analysis, is my favorite feature. Its strong visualization tools also make it simple to create engaging data presentations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some users may find the pricing structure and learning curve for advanced features difficult to navigate.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For effective data analysis, start with the free edition, look through the tutorials, and use the Microsoft integration.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service
Client Friendly Policies

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Power BI Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Real-Time Visualization Ability to analyze and visualize data as soon as it becomes available via data-streaming pipelines.

Data Modelling Tools Includes ability to model complex relationships between internal application sources and other parties.

BI Security Data access control management, including access permissions management, user authentication and enforcement of access permissions via technology.

Operational Reporting Capabilities Real-time detailed reporting to support operational business processes.

BI Platform Administration Centralized console to manage BI portal administration. Management metrics and reports on usage, resource utilization, security, and other activities.

Advanced Analytics and Data Science Techniques including predictive, data and text mining, machine learning, forecasting, what-if analysis, sentiment analysis etc.

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Spatial Analysis Ability to natively visualize and analyze spatial data out of the box tied to postcode, zipcode or spacial co-ordinates.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Naveen S.

POwer BI- Best Visualization Tool Ever

Likeliness to Recommend

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Mahesh C.

Power BI is the “Power”

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Abhay C.

Strong but still has potential for development

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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