Microsoft Power BI

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About Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a suite of analytics tools for analyzing business data and sharing insights via rich visualizations. Customizable and pre-built dashboards unify important metrics into single views, showing real time updates to every device. The centralized, web-based Power BI service interfaces Power BI gateways to connect to and unify organizational data while Power BI Desktop for Windows provides local data mashup and report authoring features. Live dashboards offer an instant 360-view on business health, leveraging 59 out-of-the-box connections for apps or services such as Salesforce, Google Analytics, Azure, Facebook, Github, QuickBooks Online, Twilio and Zendesk. Power BI brings all that data, wherever it resides, together to form a complete picture of key metrics that can then be queried using natural language.

With Power BI Desktop, users can author reports using intuitive drag-and-drop tools and share amongst colleagues through the online Power BI Service. Integrating with Microsoft’s established Query engine, data modeling and visualization technologies, Power BI Desktop connects, shapes and reports to centralize a typically disjointed process of reporting. Outputting to .pbix format, these report files can then be manually shared like any other or uploaded to the shared service. In addition, this ability to keep all users on the same page at all times extends to a suite of optimized mobile support. Power BI Mobile keeps remote connectivity consistent across native apps for Windows Mobile, iOS and Android devices, adding intuitive gesture-based operation. Live dashboards can be viewed on the fly, alongside full report sharing capabilities and data-driven alerts.


Key benefits of Microsoft Power BI

  • Microsoft Power BI spans a suite of Business Intelligence tools for creating rich visualizations and sharable reports.

  • Web-based Power BI Service provides a centralized hub for defining live personalized dashboards, harnessing on-premises data via Power BI gateways.

  • Out-of-the-box connections and pre-built dashboards for 59 popular apps and services makes unifying data quick and simple, wherever it resides.

  • Power BI Desktop for Windows provides deeper visual data exploration within a free-form drag-and-drop canvas and a library of powerful visualizations.

  • Author rich reports that can be exported to Power BI’s .pbix format or shared more engagingly among user groups by uploading to the Power BI service.

  • View personalized dashboards and reports from anywhere with Power BI Mobile, offering optimized apps for Windows Mobile, iOS and Google Play.

  • Stay informed of the very latest real-time update with data-driven alerting and full report sharing options while on the move.

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    Sai
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    • Industry: Internet
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Strong visualization platform

    Reviewed on 28/07/2023

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

    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.

    Pathan
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    • Industry: Architecture & Planning
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    POWER BI - Visualize your Data

    Reviewed on 31/10/2024

    The UI is great & easy to make your dashboard. The insights we get from a click is a cherry on the...

    The UI is great & easy to make your dashboard. The insights we get from a click is a cherry on the top.

    Pros

    The number of ways we get to show the data is the visualization part.

    Cons

    The DAX query can be simplified like Excel would be more helpful.

    Alternatives Considered

    Smartsheet

    Reasons for Choosing Microsoft Power BI

    The visualize ways are more here & In excel we have a Pivot table only, here we have a slicer that gives more insights on a click.

    Switched From

    Microsoft Excel

    Reasons for Switching to Microsoft Power BI

    The data can be shown in a number of ways as compared to other software.
    Linda
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    • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Microsoft PowerBI

    Reviewed on 10/02/2025

    Overall, in my opinion Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool great for data analysis...

    Overall, in my opinion Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool great for data analysis and data visualization.

    Pros

    - Ability to create many different relationships between tables and visualize data.
    - Different ways to clean data and create calculated columns or measures.
    - Ability to transform data in Power Query leveraging M code or downstream in the report/table view by leveraging DAX code.
    - Low learning curve especially if already proficient in other Microsoft tools.

    Cons

    The UI for the developers could be slightly improved.

    Kathy
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    • Industry: Veterinary
    • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

    Sluggish but useful

    Reviewed on 16/11/2024

    Used for reporting for corporate monthly wellness program enrollments, monthly fiance breakdowns

    Used for reporting for corporate monthly wellness program enrollments, monthly fiance breakdowns

    Pros

    Holds a lot of information, able to look at data as charts ans graphs

    Cons

    Slow, often times out when in the program

    Yogesh
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    • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    BI and ease

    Reviewed on 09/12/2024

    I would go ahead and recommend for its sheer simplicity

    I would go ahead and recommend for its sheer simplicity

    Pros

    Ease and convenience of use . Flexible to develop

    Cons

    Pricing element and the dependence on Microsoft often

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    Microsoft Power BI FAQs

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    Microsoft Power BI offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$10.00/month
    • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
    • Free Trial: Not Available

    Free Plan: Free Power BI Pro Plan: Price: $10/user/month Power BI Premium Per User: Price: $20/user/month Power BI Premium in Microsoft Fabric: Variable

    Microsoft Power BI has the following typical customers:

    2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Microsoft Power BI supports the following languages:

    Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

    Microsoft Power BI supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile)

    Microsoft Power BI integrates with the following applications:

    Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks Online, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Twilio

    Microsoft Power BI offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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