Microsoft Power BI

RATING:

4.6

(1569)

About Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a web-based business analytics and data visualization platform that is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It monitors important organizational data and also from all apps used by organizations. Microsoft Power BI provides tools to quickly analyze, transform and visualize data, and also share reports. Microsoft Power BI offers SQL Server Analysis Services through which users can quickly build reusable models using the overall data. The software enables users to integrate their apps, so as to deliver reports along with real-time dashboards. Microsoft Power BI also provides self-service access to major third-party cloud sources such as GitHub, Zendesk, Marketo and Salesforce. Microsoft Power BI is available both in free and paid (Pro) versions. ...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2023
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Microsoft Power BI Pricing

Power BI Pro: $9.99 per user, per month Power BI Premium: $20 Per user/month and $4,995 Per capacity/month

Starting price: 

$9.99 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Microsoft Power BI

1 - 5 of 1,542 Reviews

Eric

11 - 50 employees

Used free trial

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

Reviewed March 2023

Makes Excel-based Data Pretty

User Profile

Joao

Verified reviewer

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2023

Flexible Tool for Data Reporting

PROS

Easy to pick up. Once a template is made, it's easy to teach low IT literate colleagues how to use the tool.

CONS

The free version does not allow for sharing and account specific data visualization.

Gary

Building Materials, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2023

Very Powerful but not for the faint hearted

We have been rolling it out throughout the company over the past 1.5 years. It's been a journey with highs and lows but the overall result is amazing.

PROS

It has such a broad set of features and possibilities. It's customisation abilities and close relationship with the power platform makes it a very useful tool.

CONS

Complexity - To make it sing and dance you need dedicated skills due to the size and complexity of the product. We have someone in-house full time working on PBI. I'm often asked by smaller teams if they should use it and I often advise against it unless they have the skills internally to make it work. Can be difficult to find reports - For end users, once you have a lot of reports, it can be difficult for them to locate them or to know where to go to get specific data. Updates - MS roll out monthly updates and often make changes to menus and options which doesn't make sense. This can be quite frustrating if your not using the product every week.

Kenny

Non-Profit Organization Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2023

Feedback on using Microsoft Power BI

I am happy with using this product for my reporting.

PROS

The graph function and the tabular format of expressing the data is the best.

CONS

The refresh time of the reporting can be improved. Once or twice a day is not ideal, when thousands of transactions are going through in single day.

Benoy

Automotive, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2023

Power BI will transform the traditional way of reporting.

Power BI is a good reportiogn tool but when we have found Phocas reporting software we have discontinued Power BI as the features are very nice in Phocas than compared to Pwer BI

PROS

Easy Creation and Customisable dashboards, It is easy to integrate wtih many ERP systems.

CONS

New users needs extensive training to get used with PBI. Especially importing data from PBI is a task and time consuming. We cannot easily get data out from PBI in Excel as it shows on screen.

Reason for choosing Microsoft Power BI

We have discontinued usign Power BI, and moved to Phocas Software as the usage and dashboards are excellent than compared to PBI. PBI reporting is not easy for new learners. it takes time to understand PBI and its options,