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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.4 /10

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

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 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

9 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

88 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

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

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

Manoj M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

MS PowerBI is the one stop shop tool for analytics

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Very easily integrates with Microsoft services on Azure & different sql and non-sql data sources

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to build dashboards for data visualisation

What do you dislike most about this product?

Limitations around data refresh frequency & dashboard designs

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely one of the industry leader product in data visualisation and business insights

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Fantastic all in one tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Avika J.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Powerful BI product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft's branding and top notch client support.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Innovative features and ease of integration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cost could be improved for smaller businesses or start ups

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would highly recommend this product for business analytics purpose as it's quite accurate and easy to use as well

Pros

Helps Innovate
Unique Features
Fair
Acts with Integrity

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

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Awards & Recognition

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

88 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.

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities Selected user groups are able to interact with BI data, slice and dice, and find answers on their own.

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.

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

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 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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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Manoj M.

MS PowerBI is the one stop shop tool for analytics

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Fantastic all in one tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Avika J.

Powerful BI product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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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

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support