Microsoft Power BI Reviews

PROS: Power BI customer reps have always been helpful and responsive--kudos to them! They don't just give us canned responses, but rather, they really try to address our specific issues. Power BI is a well-designed and helpful tool.

CONS: It can be difficult to merge information coming from more than one data source.

PROS: There's so much to love about Power BI. For one, it offers a range of pricing models, and we've been able to choose the package that fits perfectly into our budget. It can pull data from just about any source too, and automatically updates when the data source does. It hooks us up with a robust set of ETL tools as well, complete with its own programming language. It supports an expression language as well that helps us deal with our tabular data more efficiently.

CONS: Its desktop version feels a bit clunky. This is where the bulk of our work happens, and we need it to function as smoothly as possible. The program itself needs to be cleaned up too. We've noticed a couple of bugs such as the date slicer of the program. It does not automatically update the date of our files. These little things are important to us, and we hope that these issues can be addressed right away.

PROS: This has quickly become one of the favorite programs among my colleagues. It manages to synthesize our data easily and without any problem. By simply creating queries, it can quickly identify patterns for your invoices so that you can see what brings in the most income. They've provided us with a set of pretty detailed online training materials too. And finally, I think it's great how we can easily share live data and edit them as we go.

CONS: This program does require initial training and certain skills from the user. An amateur handling this can easily get overwhelmed with all the queries that they'd need to keep track of.

PROS: Power BI is probably the best visualization program in the market. Once you can fully grasp all of its functionalities, you'll soon be able to reap all of its benefits. It can easily churn out your vision into reality--all you have to do is to supply it with the necessary data.

CONS: I'd be lying if I said that I didn't struggle with this at first. One needs to be familiar with similar programs to fully appreciate its value.

PROS: Power BI has completely transformed the way we understand our business. Through it, we've been able to process and understand our data better. We've been able to make better decisions because of it and have even gained the favor of our executives because of our more visually appealing reports. This has completely revolutionized the game for us.

CONS: It hasn't really introduced significant updates ever since its roll out into the market. This makes me feel as if other solutions can now surpass it when it comes to modeling and graphics. Sometimes, we have to really get in there and do the coding ourselves.

PROS: I love how Power BI can easily translate hard data into more understandable and relatable graphics. It can even categorize information for you by age group, date of membership, as well as membership type.

CONS: It automatically refreshes about two times a day. Of course, this benefits us sometimes too, especially when we forget to update our data.

PROS: I love how intuitive and easy to use Power BI is. It can export and import data from other sources easily too.

CONS: I'd appreciate it if more graphic design options will be made available soon.

PROS: One of the best things about Microsoft Power BI is its usability. We haven't had any trouble introducing this program to our team members because of how easy it is to learn and to use. We use this mostly for creating reports and sending them to various silos in our company. It's fast, integrates well with other systems, plus the end product is always aesthetically up-to-standard too.

CONS: The only hitch we've noted is that it does require you to have a working knowledge of database management.