Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Strong visualization platform

Comments: Experience with Microsoft Power BI was really good and their support is a strong plus

Pros:

Microsoft Power BI is very versatile with creating dashboards and reports. Controlling access levels is efficient

Cons:

Microsoft Power BI is not that easy to use when compared to Looker. Looker has stronger features and capabilities.

Good finance and stick reporting tool

Comments: Overall it's a good option to view finance reports

Pros:

Very functional and has plenty of view options

Cons:

Sometimes it can get a bit overwhelming as there's alot of data to view

Probably the worst dataviz software out there

Comments: Go Tableau, only one which deserves my attention

Pros:

None, it's really everyday just another bad stuff happening

Cons:

It's slow, buggy, you can't do what you want to do, counter intuitive, no community

Power Bi is a god send

Comments: Very positive, we are planning on migrating all of our reports back onto power BI after some issues we have had with the google suite. Learning it was very simple given some basic prior knowledge but more advanced knowledge is required to access the full extent of the application.

Pros:

I love power query and the many options which are available for report customization. I really like how intuitive it all was for me especially merging complex data sets. The DAX code allows complex functions when processing data to divine advanced insights.

Cons:

My least favourite thing about power bi is definitely the formatting options. In terms of making things the same size and auto aligning correctly it can sometimes be quite a hassle.

My Experience with Microsoft Power BI

Pros:

Its an easy to use tool that allows you to analyze data like a pro. The tool has many features and capability such as statistical analysis, data cleaning, reporting and data visualization. It offers seamless integration with Microsoft ecosystem.

Cons:

There is nothing that was so odd with the tool.

Data Visualization

Comments: I am using BI in my current and last company and it is one of the best tool to manage and share visualization

Pros:

Very best tool for visualization and data management

Cons:

One wrong DAX query can mess all the connected tables

#1 in the industry for a reason

Pros:

This is one of the best analytics tools on the market. We can combine multiple data sources into 1 report, create relationships and many other amazing things.

Cons:

The licensing and limited capabilities to share to others. Also, it requires a lot of memory to run on a laptop, I recommend buying some additional RAM

My Power BI Experience

Pros:

It is a good visualization tool for creating interactive dashboards

Cons:

It sometimes does not update in real-time

Microsoft Power BI

Pros:

It provides robust data visualization tools that make it easier to analyze and present complex information

Cons:

Some customization options may feel limited compared to other BI tools

seamless data sharing

Comments: Its data visualization and the integration between other Microsoft products make its easy to work

Pros:

I really appreciate the seamless integration between all the tools in power and easy to link to excel and power point.

Cons:

What I like least about Microsoft Power BI is for beginners it could be overwhelming.

Power BI - Excel on steroids

Comments: I learnt Power BI capabilities first through Excel Power Pivot and then rolled out Power BI at my company. I liked it so much that I moved to consultancy and now support companies in rolling out Power BI as a career. I only work with Power BI as I genuinely prefer it over other BI tools.

Pros:

Coming from a business background I found Power Bi easy to access, learn and ultimately master. It combines the best of both worlds: easy access and powerful capabilities.

Cons:

There’s a few (isolated) things where competitive solutions may have a better capabilities : maps are one of them.

MSBI is master of businiess intelligence

Comments: There is plenty of documentation available online from creating visuals to advance functions using measures and It is easy enough for a non-developer to use and turn a mess of data into an intelligent and understandable story.

Pros:

Microsoft Power BI is a wonderful cloud-based business intelligence tool that helps us to visualize data from multiple sources. As per my view, it turns ugly numbers into amazing reports and visualizations and it doesn't require any prior high programming or technical knowledge.

Cons:

We may experience some performance degrade when we work are working with big dataset. No. of data refresh is limited per day!

Intuitive interface

Comments: Has an active community of users who share knowledge, solve problems and contribute to the development of the platform.

Pros:

Allows real time updates and integration with microsoft tools

Cons:

Some users habe note that there ir a learning curve, especially for those who are new to the tool or have no prior data analysis experience.

Good tool with some drawbacks

Comments: I am a fairly new user of Microsoft Power BI. It's certainly easier to use than my organisation's previous system (Oracle BI). However I'm finding it harder to get used to than I expected, as someone who is always keen to try out some new software.

Pros:

Good tool for standardising the presentation of data and simplifying access to it

Cons:

Not particularly intuitive to use. Maybe this is inevitable given the complexity of the package. However I find it confusing at times to use filters and reset them as there seem to be several different ways in which filters can be applied.

Robust tool, with a steep learning curve

Comments: There is a pretty steep learning curve to set up a robust dashboard, but if you stick with it the insights can be very helpful. For the price, it has been worth the effort and our team gets regular use and value from the many dashboard pages we have in place.

Pros:

With the right data backing it, the dashboards can be adjusted and augmented quickly, sometimes right in the browser, to glean new insights.

Cons:

When manipulating data, the language and structures needed are clunky and proprietary. For example, to display a date in a new format conditionally, a new measure needs to be built, written with functions and syntax specific to Power Bi.

Microsoft Power BI provides the interactive visualizations and reports which helps the administration to make a better decision.

Comments: We use Power BI as an excellent tool to analyze the data and create visualization/reports. It helps the business decisions.

Pros:

Ease to creating visualizations; excellent integration with other Microsoft applications and Google sheets. Support document is effective and easy to get.

Cons:

The use of AI in the visualizations and reports need to be improved.

Power BI used at a pharmacy

Comments: It is simple to use at the pharmacy and gives us a clear picture of how the store is doing. Since we are only looking at data, it is very practical.

Pros:

The ease of use allows for daily access of the stores information. It give us the opportunity to compare numbers to the previous year and see any trends

Cons:

The charts created can be easier to read. The x and y axis aren’t usually labeled so if we are looking at the chart without knowing what info it is charting it can be confusing

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful BI tool

Comments: Overall, my company really loves the reports I've been able to generate for them. I've really enjoyed learning and expanding my capabilities. It is complex enough to keep me learning for years.

Pros:

Power BI Desktop is free to start with, so you can build reports right away. You can pull data from a nearly unlimited list of sources including straight off of websites. The tool has a lot of power, which can be a pro or a con. Tool development is ongoing.

Cons:

The tool is complex. The different functionality at the different Pro and Premier levels can be tricky as well as using the On Premises Gateway.

Trusted BI Solution for Our Manufacturing Operations

Comments: Microsoft Power BI has been a trusty business intelligence tool for us. We use it to report on our machines' performance, creating active reports for employee-related data, finance dashboards, and more and more. Considering the scale we're using it, it's pretty impressive how little technical maintenance it requires. All in all, if you're looking for dependability, you can't go wrong with MS Power BI

Pros:

Microsoft Power BI is far more dependable and performs higher over a long period compared to most of the other BI tools out there. It's performed very well in our security tests, and we very very rarely see any issues with it (mainly issues with fetching data from other tools.)

Cons:

There isn't anything that'd lead us to start looking for another tool, but I guess my one concern would be the aging interface. It's a lot easier to use as we all know the familiar design elements, but I think it's starting to lag behind their competitors a bit.

The ultimate best tool for accurate business analytics.

Comments: Microsoft Power BI helps us to run our business efficiently by giving us insights which allows us to understand which areas that are performing well as well as areas which need much of our attention. Moreso, it helps us understand our performance in the market and thereby develop strategies to help us remain competitive in the gaming market.

Pros:

With Microsoft Power BI, we are able to run full analysis on our entire business and this keeps us on the light about how every part and department of the company is performing. The reports we get are easy to read and understand and with the visualization options available like graphs, we get to capture insights easily from them. It has well defined and dynamic security functions which guarantee the security of all our business data by making sure thag we are the only ones with the access to these confidential information.

Cons:

Am yet to experience the downside of Microsoft Power BI and there has been nothing that has ever gone wrong with it.

A professional business intelligence tool

Comments: I use it primarily for developing dasboards and the whole experience is great from creating the dashboard to publishing it in workspaces everything is seamless

Pros:

Very easy to connect to a wide variety of datasources such as sharepoint List,SQL Databses and excel files . The data transform option supports a wide variety of data manipulation and data cleaning options which makes data modelling very easy It supports a lot of inbuilt visualization graphs and figures with an easy drag and drop functionality.

Cons:

Only the data loading while working on large datasets takes a lot of time if that can be improved a really great tool

Microsoft Power BI from a SharePoint Dev

Comments: The steepest slope to climb was formula syntax. It was a lot of testing in excel and trying to convert to Power BI. Luckily the forums are helpful, and most formulas are already available to copy and paste from the forums too.

Pros:

I enjoyed the natural availability of Microsoft Power BI within SharePoint lists. It made quick dashboards and quick visuals easy, without having to navigate between different programs, I could just do it all in the same browser window.

Cons:

The licensing and sharing was confusing and frustrating to begin with, but I guess any product has to make money somehow. We can't get everything for free.

Use Power BI to transform your complex data into a clear dashboard

Comments: My overall experience with Power BI is very positive. Before I used it it was extremely hard to see that data I needed in such a clear way. It's generally very easy to use.

Pros:

It is a clear way of visualizing complicated and complex data.

Cons:

It can be a little clunky at times when loading the data into the system.

Insights you can trust.

Comments: Microsoft Power BI always shows prowess in business data analytics and this has enabled us to achieve a better understanding of our business operations. With the insights we get from Microsoft Power BI, we are able to make informed decisions, plan and do forecasts to prepare ourselves for situations deemed to happen before they do.

Pros:

In data analytics, the insights are only important if one can understand them and for that i like how Microsoft Power BI offers easy to understand data visualization tools which makes it easy to read and understand the insights about the business. It allows easy creation of reports which we use to demonstrate how our business is performing as well as understanding areas in our business which needs improvement. The data analysis tools uses AI and drag and drop technology which makes it easy for anyone to use it for the analysis.

Cons:

Nothing at all from me. Using Microsoft Power BI has been so simple and it has very responsive features.

Microsoft powerbi review

Comments: I love using Powerbi in my day-to-day analysis, I find it easy to use and would highly recommend it to other users.

Pros:

PowerBI integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft products which are widely used such as Microsoft Excel and also is very user-friendly which is a huge plus.

Cons:

Powerbi is great but I think the visuals could look a little better.