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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. Connect to hundreds of data sources and bring your data to life with live dashboards and reports.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power BI won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics - Enterprise category

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2026 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2026

5 Top Rated Capabilities

14 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2026

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

9 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

7 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Power BI Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?

1% Negative

3% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Collaboration

Data Modelling Tools

Real-Time Visualization

BI Security

Operational Reporting Capabilities

BI Platform Administration

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Score 8.8

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Joao M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jan 2024

Go above and beyond with this product!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Different sources of information regarding the product. Many developers talking about it and helping the product grow.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Integration possibilities. Get data from almost anywhere you want.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The visuals available through the marketplace are not so many.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Surely should go for it. Best on the market!

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Mohamad R.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Enhanced Features for Deeper Insights

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

PowerBI stands out with its extensive connectivity, offering links to virtually every imaginable data source. Its remarkable flexibility allows for diverse presentation methods, catering to various user preferences and needs.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The capability to access live data is immensely valuable for our team. It empowers us to make real-time decisions, eliminating the need to wait for daily or weekly updates. Granting users access to live data fosters unprecedented insights within the team, surpassing the limitations of static emailed reports.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Administering BI dashboards and managing users, particularly external ones, can be quite cumbersome. The process, heavily reliant on the Microsoft portal for licensing adjustments, could benefit from a more user-friendly interface within PowerBI itself. Streamlining the sharing of reports and simplifying permission setups would greatly enhance the overall experience, making the role more intuitive and efficient.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Securing a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) is paramount. While I possess reasonable data skills, partnering with a competent DBA to establish data connections, reports, and dashboards proved invaluable. Their expertise not only saved time but also alleviated potential challenges, making the collaborative process significantly smoother.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Saves Time

Arun k.

Role: Operations
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2023

Eye catching visualization tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft power BI is a user friendly application. The visualization done through power Bi is really eye catching. It allowed multiple data sources from which I can fetched data for analysis.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the dashboard creation part of power BI. Apart from that, It allow the user to access different other dashboard options from many sources.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I did not find anything to be dislike as of now.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

To the companies or someone trying to get into data analytics, it is one of the best tool to consider.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Caring
Saves Time

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Power BI Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Collaboration Allows teams to share translation memory and work together.

Data Modelling Tools Includes ability to model complex relationships between internal application sources and other parties.

Real-Time Visualization Ability to analyze and visualize data as soon as it becomes available via data-streaming pipelines.

BI Security Data access control management, including access permissions management, user authentication and enforcement of access permissions via technology.

Operational Reporting Capabilities Real-time detailed reporting to support operational business processes.

BI Platform Administration Centralized console to manage BI portal administration. Management metrics and reports on usage, resource utilization, security, and other activities.

Advanced Analytics and Data Science Techniques including predictive, data and text mining, machine learning, forecasting, what-if analysis, sentiment analysis etc.

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities Selected user groups are able to interact with BI data, slice and dice, and find answers on their own.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Joao M.

Go above and beyond with this product!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mohamad R.

Enhanced Features for Deeper Insights

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Arun k.

Eye catching visualization tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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