Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI
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.
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Share reports interactively
Reviewed on 2024/08/14
As I have used this tool for my work area, it has allowed me to share reports with my team or...
As I have used this tool for my work area, it has allowed me to share reports with my team or clients, and it helps my clients understand new projects in an interactive and easy way.
Pros
Microsoft Power BI has offered me a wide range of visualizations, as it has charts that help present data or information accurately. Additionally, its ease of use has made it easy for me to adopt this tool quickly.
Cons
I have found the subscription to be a bit expensive; however, it does have a free version, which I find impressive.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Astounding features
Reviewed on 2024/12/11
It has been an interesting experience as data interpretation has never been easier
It has been an interesting experience as data interpretation has never been easier
Pros
Ability to present comparisons of data easily to anyone
Cons
I have to always check my filters to ensure I have the correct data
- 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 2024/11/16
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
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Good tool with some drawbacks
Reviewed on 2024/11/11
I am a fairly new user of Microsoft Power BI. It's certainly easier to use than my organisation's...
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.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
All round solution for dashboard creation
Reviewed on 2024/12/15
A very professional tool for creating dashboards with a wide variety of charts and supports...
A very professional tool for creating dashboards with a wide variety of charts and supports publishing dashboards with just a simple click to audiences that you can define in the workspace access rights menu.
Pros
The data transform menu in Power BI helps to preprocess data and apply multiple steps to clean and improve the data quality before using it for creating visuals.
Power BI Supports a lot of highly usable visuals such as waterfall chart, Gantt charts with a drag and drop functionality
Cons
Slow refresh times if the dataset size is large
Microsoft Power BI FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Power BI.Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Power BI offer?
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
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Microsoft Power BI support?
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
Q. Does Microsoft Power BI support mobile devices?
Microsoft Power BI supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Power BI integrate with?
Microsoft Power BI integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks Online, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Twilio
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Power BI offer?
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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