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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Power Query

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is Microsoft Power Query?

Power Query is a data transformation and data preparation engine. Power Query comes with a graphical interface for getting data from sources and a Power Query Editor for applying transformations. Because the engine is available in many products and services, the destination where the data will be stored depends on where Power Query was used. Using Power Query, you can perform the extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing of data.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power Query won the following awards in the Data Preparation for Analytics category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

2 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

7 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Microsoft Power Query Ratings

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89 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+92 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 Query?

2% Negative

5% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Data Preparation Workflow

100

Message Model

Data Integration

Data Cleansing

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Data Pre-Processing

Data Access

Data Profiling

Data Modelling Tools

Data Security & Masking

Data Enrichment

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Microsoft Power Query Reviews

Olivia L.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Dec 2025

‎A game changer for data cleaning

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Query from other similar products?

‎Using Power Query reduced manual copy-paste errors in reports significantly. Power Query helps ensure consistency across teams. While many tools require coding skills, Power Query lets me visually shape, clean, and combine data without writing complex scripts.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

‎It keeps my messy data clean without writing complex formulas or scripts. Power Query saves me hours by automating repetitive data preparation tasks effortlessly. I find Power Query extremely helpful when combining data from multiple inconsistent files. The interface feels logical and guides me naturally through each transformation step.

What do you dislike most about this product?

‎I find the debugging errors to be a little frustrating, because error messages are often vague and don’t clearly explain what went wrong or how to fix it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend it for collaborative analytics environments. It enhances analytics reliability. Before diving in, identify the specific data problems you want Power Query to solve, like cleaning inconsistent data or merging multiple sources.

Pros

Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Effective Service
Respectful

Ukeka U.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Education
Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2025

User-friendly, efficient data preparation, limited

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Query from other similar products?

Microsoft Power Query stands out for its user-friendly, no-code/low-code interface, seamless Excel and Power BI integration, strong data transformation capabilities, and ease of connecting, cleaning, and shaping data from diverse sources efficiently.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Microsoft Power Query is its intuitive, user-friendly interface that allows efficient data transformation and shaping without requiring advanced coding skills, making complex data preparation accessible and seamless.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The main drawback of Microsoft Power Query is its limited scalability for very large datasets, slower performance with complex transformations, and fewer advanced analytics or automation features compared to enterprise-grade platforms.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For those considering Microsoft Power Query, it’s ideal for small to medium datasets, easy to use with no-code transformations, integrates seamlessly with Excel and Power BI, but may struggle with very large or complex data workloads.

Pros

Efficient Service
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Shobhit K.

Role: Finance
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2025

A great tool for finacial reporting automation.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Query from other similar products?

It can consolidate multip,e subsidiary financial data automatically

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Dashboards with KPIs and financial ratios

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is nothing to be disliked

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Power query is an excelentt tool to increase efficiency within the organisation. I would surely recommend it.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Effective Service
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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Power Query Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Power Query?

Pros

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

Data Preparation Workflow Visual, repeatable pipelines to clean, transform, join, and enrich data from multiple sources, preparing trusted datasets for analysis and reporting.

Message Model Defines the schema and structure of event or API data messages, enabling validation, parsing, and transformation of streaming data for analytics.

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Data Cleansing Includes data auditing, workflow specification, post-processing, and controlling, such as address standardization and the correction of known invalid values.

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

Data Pre-Processing Ability to wrangle or pre-process data to ready it for model training.

Data Access Ability to access data from various sources on-prem and in the cloud and of various type: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured, real-time, etc.

Data Profiling Includes statistical analysis of data values to evaluate the frequency, distribution and completeness of data.

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

Data Security & Masking Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Enrichment Includes the enhancement of the value of internally held data by appending related attributes from external sources.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Power Query Reviews

Olivia L.

‎A game changer for data cleaning

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ukeka U.

User-friendly, efficient data preparation, limited

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shobhit K.

A great tool for finacial reporting automation.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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