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Microsoft Power BI Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives
Microsoft Power BI product overview
What is Microsoft Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI is a suite of analytics tools for analyzing business data and sharing insights via rich visualizations. Customizable and pre-built dashboards unify important metrics into single views, showing real time updates to every device. The centralized, web-based Power BI service interfaces Power BI gateways to connect to and unify organizational data while Power BI Desktop for Windows provides local data mashup and report authoring features. Live dashboards offer an instant 360-view on business health, leveraging 59 out-of-the-box connections for apps or services such as Salesforce, Google Analytics, Azure, Facebook, Github, QuickBooks Online, Twilio and Zendesk. Power BI brings all that data, wherever it resides, together to form a complete picture of key metrics that can then be queried using natural language.
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Microsoft Power BI pricing information
Value for money
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Microsoft Power BI features
Functionality
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Microsoft Power BI users reviews
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- Likelihood to recommend8.49/10
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Elwin W.
Strategic Sales Analyst
Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees
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Owen W.: I'm Owen. I'm a data analyst in the retail industry, and I give Power BI a four out of five....
Andrew B.
SEO Manager
Chemicals, 10,001+ employees
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Andrew B.: Hi, my name is Andrew and I am an SEO manager in the IT field. I would give Power BI a four...
Marlyn G.
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Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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With Microsoft Power BI we can create more profound and useful insights, enhance the publishing efficacy and precision of BI content, and it has a powerful in-stream real-time analytics
Microsoft Power BI is one of the most comprehensive data visualization platforms you've ever used. Power BI allows me to collect data from various sources, such as azure and SharePoint databases, it is a platform with enormous potential since it can transform data and give a better perspective, what I like about Power Bi is that it has an easy-to-use user interface without long learning curves, which makes it easy to use for new users, you can see the tables in an orderly way this facilitates data analysis, in Power BI it is safe to use, since it allows only authorized users can access, this is vital since the information that is stored is very sensitive.
What I don't like is that the desktop version consumes a lot of RAM and is sometimes slow, a computer with good specifications is required for it to run smoothly.
Ck P.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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If you have worked with Office tools, you would grasp the basic functionality very quickly. It's very user-friendly. The power comes from a plethora of data source connectors that it provides out of the box. I am also impressed by its data visualization capabilities. It also integrates well with other Microsoft products. Best of all - it's free for most use cases. The cloud version offers a lot more options for storage and collaboration at a modest price. It's also easy to switch between the desktop and cloud versions.
The desktop app can be sluggish at times, especially if you are dealing with large and varied data sets. Also, to utilize its more powerful features, you need to have a greater learning curve than competing products. Cloud integrations are also not very easy to configure and connections to on-prem and SaaS data sources can be challenging.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Management Consulting, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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In light of the hype around this "Tableau destroyer" in recent months, I want to highlight some fundamental flaws in data connectivity and reports maintenance of Power BI, which the Product Team so far has turned down as "not in scope". In practice, though, this renders Power BI pretty useless for getting dara from any 3rd party products, in the cloud in particular. This review reflects Power BI...
pretty visuals Power Query On-premises Data Gateway responsible Pro Support
lack of data sources pretty useless for 3rd Party Web Sources
John R.
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Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have been working with this tool for a couple of years now, daily. It is great for the reporting, and we have created amazing reports for Management and the team in general. Very easy to explain metrics, with the reports created.
It's free version is very powerful. We can create any report we need, has a lot of data sources and even can create subscription for sending the reports automatically.
So far, the only issue I have found is when there are relation on different conditons for the same visual. It can separate and is hard to achive the result.
Rajiv S.
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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It provides a good option to create a dashboard and streamline data
The ease of managing data flows and creating a dashboard is the top feature.
Less availability of demos for new features.
Microsoft Power BI FAQs and common questions
Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Power BI offer?
Microsoft Power BI has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $9.99/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Q. What languages does Microsoft Power BI support?
Microsoft Power BI supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Microsoft Power BI support mobile devices?
Microsoft Power BI supports the following devices:
Android
Q. Does Microsoft Power BI offer an API?
Yes, Microsoft Power BI has an API available for use.
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Power BI integrate with?
Microsoft Power BI integrates with the following applications:
Salesforce Sales Cloud, Microsoft 365, Quickbooks Online, Twilio, Microsoft Excel
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Power BI offer?
Microsoft Power BI offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Chat, Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)
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