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Microsoft Power BI
BI visualization and reporting for desktop, web or mobile
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Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Power BI?
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?
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Power BI integrate with?
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.
Typical customers
Platforms supported
Support options
Training options
Starting from
9.99
/user
Per month
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No pricing info
Value for money
4.4
/5
1.5K
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9.99
/user
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Functionality
4.5
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Total features
37
10 categories
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Overall Rating
4.6
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Positive reviews
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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...
Utkarsh B.
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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I am a Power BI Developer and have delivered many dashboards to the client in Power BI. Its Better than other Products. Its Save my lot of time by using Power BI various features. From Importing the Data to Publishing ,Its a easier platform I would suggest you to use. It contains the most trending Visuals in the market that a every developer wants.
1)Its Easy to use, Provides a Reliable user interface . 2)Its Time efficient as most of the work Power BI does it even before you know. 3)Integration to the third party visuals and creating its own market place have already took it way further than other products. 4)A User can customize its design and can easily give the dashboard access to the public. 5)It contains the most trending Visuals in the market.
1)Software is reliable on Latest Machines. 2)Old machines then need to be upgraded(OS, RAM) to use this software smoothly. 3) Multiple Dashboards can hang the entire system.
Federico A.
Banking, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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My overall experience is great, using it to compile, perform ETL, prepare reports and create Dashboards is simply powerful.
This is a great tool that integrates perfectly with Microsoft Excel (they are from the same family) it really makes life easy. Another great feature is the possibility to connect with a wide variety of sources such as Google Analytics, Facebook, SQL, data files, cloud files, and the list goes on. Free to use and very affordable price. Finally their visualization features are also impressive.
Like any other tool, we found a high amount of the time required to train and master it, when you try to go beyond create reports, you would need to learn about additional tools like Gateways and Report Server. In addition, their language DAX is not the easiest language to work with, but nothing some training and research can't solve.
Joshua m.
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Overall, this is a great product for data visualization.
- Power B1 allows you to pull data from a variety of sources for your analysis. Examples of this sources are Microsoft SQL, Excel, Oracle Database, HANA database, MYSQL database, etc - In my career as a SAP Consultant, Power B1 comes in very handy especially for clients we implement SAP Business one with the SQL Database option. Power B1 helps the decision makers of a company to view their data in...
- There is a little bit of a learning curve involved if you want to get comfortable in deploying more complex features of Power B1 and making maximum use of it.- The license cost of Power B1 may not be viable to everyone who might want to use it.- When dealing with very huge data sets, Power B1 may not be the best option. You might need other more powerful data visualization tools like HANA database.
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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
Sai R.
Internet, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Experience with Microsoft Power BI was really good and their support is a strong plus
Microsoft Power BI is very versatile with creating dashboards and reports. Controlling access levels is efficient
Microsoft Power BI is not that easy to use when compared to Looker. Looker has stronger features and capabilities.