Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Nikhil K.Mr.

5.0

Power BI a popular choice for businesses and organizations looking to harness the power of data for informed decision-making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek B.Analytics Analyst

5.0

Power BI is one of the most important visualization platform we use for analysis of data because it gives us the data in graphs and readable manner. Power BI is much better app as it is fast and reliable than other apps. It Gives you options of performing analysis on Data by Creating Different kind of charts which leads to benefit of Organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nick v.Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

4.5

These characteristics, in combination, make Power BI Desktop a tool that is not only powerful but also highly accessible for every day use. It empowers users to harness the full potential of their data, regardless of their skill level, and this accessibility is what many users appreciate the most about the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and ServicesSmall-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

0.5

PowerBI Desktop is clunky and dysfunctional. (Why am I on the freaking desktop anyways? It's the cloud era.) It constantly throws errors and has an inexplicable permissions system. Also it fails to inform the user why errors are occurring and how to resolve them. Its refresh cycle is a joke (2 hours?) and control over report layout is limited. Its tables and matrixes are badly designed, not able to render rows and columns intuitively. This product was clearly made offshore. Every element of the UI and architecture screams "second rate". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in PharmaceuticalsEnterprise(> 1000 emp.)

0.5

Dog slow application, no way to center the text on certain items, cannot pin open the Format section (it keeps closing when you click off of an object), cannot select and move multiple objects, no way to align objects, no way to right-click and format objects, Ctrl+Z does not work to undo, timelines and Gantt charts are completely ignored, stupid/weird spaning around objects no way to round corners on fields, field border colors are ignored, no way to autofit tables to visual, no way to turn off autorefresh when designing dashboard to name just a few. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical DevicesEnterprise(> 1000 emp.)

1.5

Power BI is essentially a repackaged Excel and uses Microsoft's frustrating M language. This prevents users from using proven languages and methods and obfuscates truly understanding the data. It also lacks the horsepower for large datasets and visuals. Moreover, the visual compilation of dashboards is clunky and uninspiring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ahrat K.Graphic Design

5.0

A partir de Power BI, on peut aisment se connecter d'autres sources de donnes, y compris des bases de donnes SQL, Excel, SharePoint, Salesforce etc.

Anonymous ReviewerComputer Software

5.0

It is user friendly, it has the drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for users to create interactive reports and dashboard.

Joel B.Consumer Services

5.0

Data input from many sources is made simple by Power BI's integration with other Microsoft products including Excel, SharePoint, and Azure.

William A.Information Technology and Services

1.0

Limited functionality, customization, bugged filters and graphs. Lack of support, support website not working

Anonymous ReviewerComputer Software

1.0

Very tough to scale if you have a lot of data.

Steven R.Food & Beverages

2.0

There are simply too many software that do the Same thing if not more.

Tom JaskulaData Analytics Practice Lead

5.0

Microsoft Power BI provides interactive dashboards to use for data discovery and data visualizations. Every department that has questions to ask of their data can benefit from Power BI. Power BI addresses the need that many organizations have for quick insight into their data and in many situations it can reduce the reliance on operational reporting.
Power BI is constantly evolving because Microsoft is pushing updates to Power BI on a regular basis. This means you'll have all of the newest features or functions without having to upgrade or pay anything extra. Power BI is very cost friendly to cost conscious CIOs and organizations. Power BI is priced at a fraction of some of the competing products. Power BI has built in connectivity with a plethora of mainstream cloud based data sources. The real bonus is that after you connect to them, Power BI creates a default dashboard for you that is unique to the data source you are connecting to.

jim parolyFreelance Photographer

5.0

Power BI is a very good tool to create quick reports with beautiful visualizations and a great tool to research your data visually. I think that seeing your data in a visual way can help you see things you may miss with a standard report. I use it to track my projects to compare costs and revenues.
Power BI allows you to show or look at your data in different types of visualizations easily and quickly. It is light-weight with great selection of visualization tools (with many add-ons available for extra types of visualization). You can create reports using the easy to use and elegant looking dashboard which would be familiar to Excel users. The data you analyze can come from single or multiple data sources, with a huge selection of data source types. The reports and graphs you create can be easily customized to suit your needs or taste. New features are being added rapidly (which can be a con for some as it can result in having to re-learn to use some of the operations).

Samantha BollmannUser Experience Analyst

5.0

We originally put together some projects in Power BI surrounding the methods by which shareholders contact us. Our dashboards included visualizations of how our shareholders call us, use our IVR, and access our website. We also made some visualizations regarding demographics. We are possibly looking in the future to utilize Power BI for replacing OLAP cubes in Excel. Currently we are only using Power BI among a small number of groups in different regions as we are still exploring fuller implementation. I find Power BI to be an extremely useful and easy-to-learn tool (if you have previous Excel experience) that only becomes more and more useful each month when updates come out. Power BI's data visualization capabilities makes it easy to make discoveries in our vast amount of data and present it in an easy-to-absorb way.
Constant updates and improvements. Power BI provides FREE major updates every month which has been making the product more and more useful over time. Reading the update log is always exciting because Microsoft is always putting out new features are legitimately useful for me. Power BI connects easily to a huge variety of data sources, even those outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. You can even connect to websites and pull data right off of their pages. For example, you can link to Google or Yahoo Finance and pull information about stocks right into your dashboard for free. Tons of visualizations. Power BI has many different visualizations for dashboards and more are released every month. On top of those that are released, you can download more from the web as they are open-source. You can even code your own. Power BI is increasing its R capabilities which is excellent as R is the most widely used statistical programming language. This makes it so Power BI easily integrates into already established data science departments. R can also be used to add more visualizations to Power BI. Power BI is the cheapest data visualization tool at $10 per month per user. You can also get a lot done with the free version.

Berlynn PierceCRM senior digital associate

1.5

Currently used heavily by finance and data management teams and used by marketing folks to understand customer behavior.
Difficult as a marketer to find data or create reports. Need additional training options to view capability and how to or where to find data. Search bar functionality not intuitive, at least keep it sticky rather than needing to hover over the bottom of a list.

Verified User

2.5

Microsoft Power BI can be a substitute for various visualization software that is out in the market such as Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire, Cognos, QlikView and so on. The finance team uses Power BI. Many other smaller teams use Power BI for quick visualizations. And it is free of cost.
It's slow in nature. The functionalities are not in one place, it's diverse.

Mark MetzEnterprise Services Consultant

3.0

I attempted to use the application as a substitute for tables and graphs in Excel. It seemed to be a good tool to set up graphical representations of mobile device usage and email usage. What it made available seemed to match what was being produced by several people in Excel or PowerPoint. The features seem to have a very good user interface to make the process much easier.
Instructions very lacking. Ability to work sizing and presentation of the data was very difficult. Although UI seems easy, there were several limitations on how I could present the data (look and feel for web page display).

Katie B.Co-Owner

5.0

I've been a huge fan of Power BI since we switched to it from Excel. We use it to create dashboards, set up automated reports, and anything else that requires reporting. In the years that I've used it, I've very rarely ran into bugs or performance issues. It's relatively easy to set up, has very advanced reporting capabilities, and tons of integrations you can set up pretty easily to pull data from different places. You can't fault it for BI.

John S.General Manager

5.0

MS Power BI has been a wonderful asset for our data side. We use it for all kinds of things from putting together a basic report for a presentation to designing dashboards with a dozen KPIs all being synced in realtime. It's hugely powerful and maintains good performance even with large data sets. 10/10 would recommend.

Md. Tanvir Bin N.IT officer

5.0

In one convenient spot, Power BI gives me excellent access to all the data sources and data sets I generate when creating the reports. I have various devices at my disposal to access the data at any time, anyplace. By using easy clicks, users may highlight features, apply filters, and interact with the dashboards.

Stephen R.Engineering Manager

5.0

I use it daily for my for tracking everything that can be measured in a delivery process, weekly for planning and monthly for business reporting. It is my everything data tool. I have been involved in exploring other options but it feels like Power BI stands alone in this field.

Fancy C.Librarian

5.0

We have been able to take our business to greater performance levels and we attribute most of this to Microsoft Power BI. It does a very great job of letting us know our current performance position from which we can build up and improve to get better returns.

B.Naveen K.Software Engineer

3.0

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oswaldo

4.0

Have nice tools and many ways to get your data into the project. The only thing missing is a way to connect with google docs, hopefully soon.

rolandoisidoro

5.0

Great business analytics suite with a wide variety of data sources to choose from in a fully featured free solution.

80sbush

4.0

Range of data source support and provides a better environment than excel for adhoc power query workflows.

rajeshn

5.0

Microsoft Power BI is a handy tool for both self-service and IT-managed enterprise BI projects.