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Microsoft Power BI - Business Intelligence Software

Microsoft Power BI Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews & Ratings

4.4

Very Good

Based on 2583 ratings & 151 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(105)

Very Good

(42)

Good

(3)

Poor

(1)

Terible

(0)

Expert's Review

Power BI stands out as a transformative technology that's ahead of its time, according to recent user reviews. Users appreciate the versatility of Power BI in connecting to various data sources seamlessly. This feature, along with its ability to generate quality graphics and easily share data, has garnered praise. The tool's range of pricing models and the ...Read more

Microsoft Power BI pros and cons

  • Wide range of pricing models, offering flexibility for different budgets.

  • Can connect to almost any data source, enhancing data accessibility and analysis.

  • Offers extensive visual and add-on library, facilitating enhanced data visualization.

  • Intuitive and easy to use, suitable for users with varying levels of expertise.

  • Desktop version can feel clunky and may have bugs that need addressing.

  • Requires background knowledge in SQL and database management for efficient use.

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IA

Industry Analyst / Tech Writer in Government Relations

09/20/19

5 out of 5

Best analytics tool in the office.

What do you like best? Microsoft Power BI allows for easy creation of dashboards and reports at a high level. What do you dislike? The only downfall of Power BI is the cost, but it's no more than other tools. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? With Power BI, I can easily integrate multiple data sources and create meaningful reports and dashboards at the executive level.

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Meryem B

09/20/19

4.5 out of 5

Practicle Reporting Tool

What do you like best? I love how it's very easy for anyone who used MS Excel for reporting before. It's simply drag and drop with a more robust and structured environment. Graphs work as drag-drop-connect the data. It is possible to filter them all in a single filter very easily and that's possible even in UI. It is possible to create new columns out of existing ones, using Excel-like formulas. That's parallel to what I said about ease of use for Excel users. It is possible to make the ...

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CI

Consultant in Education Management

09/19/19

4.5 out of 5

Awesome tool

What do you like best? Good price for great functionalities and easy to use What do you dislike? The premium version is too expensive for small companies What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Management information

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Girish S

09/16/19

4.5 out of 5

Data Visualization at Ease of Excel

What do you like best? Microsoft Power BI is easy to use Business Intelligence tool. Many of its interfaces are aligned with existing Microsoft products like MS-Excel and MS-Access. PBI provides monthly updates with reporting and data connectivity features. This increased product acceptability by end users. Now Power BI comes with Natural Language query search feature. By this feature, user can create charts, tables etc just by typing text instead of manual mapping of data. There is ...

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Lloyd S

09/13/19

4 out of 5

Power BI Online

What do you like best? How easy it interacts with the desktop version, and how quick it is updated with changes from the desktop What do you dislike? It is not very intuitive and took quite a while to work out how to refresh the data online Recommendations to others considering the product: If you use PowerBI desktop, then the online version is a must. This is where you can publish any reports you create in Desktop for your company What problems are you solving with the product? ...

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DHEERAJ KUMAR C

09/13/19

5 out of 5

Data story

What do you like best? Visualization, self service, modeling, sharing reports with other user. ETL part so easy even school child also can do. Everything is so easy and simple. What do you dislike? Power bi is not mature enough to cater all requirements from developer point of view. Some functionality multiple people can work on single file. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Helping stake holder to understand the data and get ...

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UI

User in Construction

09/12/19

4.5 out of 5

very flexible reporting

What do you like best? can connect to a lot of things, very flexible filters What do you dislike? some features not available with directquery What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? much more flexible dashboards and reports than Excel, linked to our ERP

UI

User in Information Services

09/12/19

3.5 out of 5

This is a solid alternative to Domo

What do you like best? Microsoft Power BI is a solid alternative to Domo to pull in the dashboard from Salesforce What do you dislike? The home screen tiles could be done a bit differently and sharing access to the reports with other people. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Sharing access to the reports with other people to get visibility into dashboards aggregating Salesforce data.

AI

Administrator in Insurance

09/08/19

4.5 out of 5

Power BI Review

What do you like best? Power BI is one of Microsoft's most used services today. This gives you the ability to perform data analysis through their visualization. Simplicity with respect to the use of the platform makes this service preferred when making reports and dashboards. What do you dislike? There are certain restrictions when using the free version with respect to data manipulation. There is also some complexity if you want to use DAX to make queries within the data set to ...

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UI

User in Human Resources

09/07/19

5 out of 5

very useful for my purpose

What do you like best? the visualisation features and the ability to select parameters and link up data What do you dislike? not sure i dislike anything, still learning though What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? visualisation of data sets, presentation, slicing and dicing