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89 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
- Acts with Integrity
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Microsoft Power BI Reviews
Jeemish M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2023
Great Visualization tool for enterprise dashboards
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Natural language queries, industry leading visualizations, frequently updated software, integration with excel & popular databases
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Power query editor for data massaging is my favorite aspect
What do you dislike most about this product?
Performance scaling with larger data sets is an issue and needs improvement.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great build in integration with Microsoft tools. Go for it if you are heavily invested in Microsoft products like Azure, GitHub, MS office
Pros
- Reliable
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
- Altruistic
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Bhavik B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2026
Plenty of Data Analytics for Associate Developers.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
One of the things that sets Power BI apart is its seamless integration with other Microsoft offerings, particularly Azure and Excel. However, with DAX it has very advanced data modelling capabilities compared to other BI tools you can find. Custom visuals, the ease with which we can embed dynamic dashboards into our own apps make it one of the most developer friendly and enterprise adaptable offerings.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The product is Power Query. Most of my time as an Associate Developer is spent preparing the raw data. Automating extraction and transformation with Power Query is super powerful. M code enables complex transforms on data sources that would otherwise require heavy backend scripting, which has massively reduced my time spent in daily dev flow.
What do you dislike most about this product?
These complex functions are very powerful, but it can take time for new developers to achieve mastery. It makes my machine slightly slow when it is processing larger enterprise datasets.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I strongly recommend this product if your organization is already in the Microsoft ecosystem. However, my strong recommendation is for a new developer to set aside time to learn the essentials of DAX and Power Query before building anything complex in dashboard form. With proper training, most of your initial frustration will be avoided and you will be able to take full advantage of the analytical capabilities of the platform at a much quicker pace.
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
Cons
- Inhibits Innovation
- Less Productive
- Vendor's Interest First
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- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2026
Simple and powerful reporting tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Well we are using multiple reporting tools in our organization but Power BI is the most widely used one among them and one of the main reason is the O365 seamless integration connection and UI is also simple. License cost is also cheap compared to all other products
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Now they have introduced copilot in PowerBI, that is my favourite aspect because, now with few prompts we can create dashboard within few mins
What do you dislike most about this product?
If the data source is excel on SharePoint, the loading will take more time eventhough both are in O365, real-time data integration is still lacking and any minor change in the source data schema will break the auto refresh
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If your org is more into Microsoft products then definitely go for PowerBI
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Fair
- Includes Product Enhancements
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