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Microsoft Power BI

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Microsoft Power BI FAQs

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

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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

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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

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Q. Does Microsoft Power BI support mobile devices?

Microsoft Power BI supports the following devices:
Android

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Q. Does Microsoft Power BI offer an API?

Yes, Microsoft Power BI has an API available for use.

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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

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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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Microsoft Power BI product overview

Price starts from

9.99

/user

Per month

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.

Key benefits of using Microsoft Power BI

  • Microsoft Power BI spans a suite of Business Intelligence tools for creating rich visualizations and sharable reports.

  • Web-based Power BI Service provides a centralized hub for defining live personalized dashboards, harnessing on-premises data via Power BI gateways.

  • Out-of-the-box connections and pre-built dashboards for 59 popular apps and services makes unifying data quick and simple, wherever it resides.

  • Power BI Desktop for Windows provides deeper visual data exploration within a free-form drag-and-drop canvas and a library of powerful visualizations.

  • Author rich reports that can be exported to Power BI’s .pbix format or shared more engagingly among user groups by uploading to the Power BI service.

  • View personalized dashboards and reports from anywhere with Power BI Mobile, offering optimized apps for Windows Mobile, iOS and Google Play.

  • Stay informed of the very latest real-time update with data-driven alerting and full report sharing options while on the move.
  • Typical customers

    Freelancers
    Small businesses
    Mid size businesses
    Large enterprises

    Platforms supported

    Web
    Android
    iPhone/iPad

    Support options

    Email/Help Desk
    Chat
    Knowledge Base
    FAQs/Forum
    Phone Support
    24/7 (Live rep)

    Training options

    Videos
    Documentation
    Webinars
    Live Online
    In Person

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    Value for money

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    Microsoft Power BI features

    Functionality

    4.5

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    1.5K

    Total features

    37

    10 categories

    Most valued features by users

    Data Visualization
    Reporting/Analytics
    Data Import/Export
    Visual Analytics
    API
    Dashboard
    Reporting & Statistics
    Activity Dashboard

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    Microsoft Power BI users reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.6

    /5

    1.5K

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    Rating breakdown
    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend8.56/10
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    Pros
    It's an incredible programming for examination. I love the perception highlights since it transform drilling information into fun outlines or diagrams.
    The ability to filter to the specific metric we are interested in is an amazing feature.
    It is a good data analytics and visualization software and its ability to import data from multiples sources is a great feature.
    Cons
    Could be frustrating to use when first starting as it would give you an error message but provide no specifics on what is wrong or directions to fix it.
    I find it a bit frustrating when presented with a visualisation that doesn't represent the particular angle on the data I am looking for.
    Had to take some training courses and even at that it was still confusing.

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    Elwin W.

    Strategic Sales Analyst

    Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees

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    Has helped bring the organization to another level

    Reviewed 3 years ago

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    Andrew B.

    SEO Manager

    Chemicals, 10,001+ employees

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    There are plenty of competitors, but Power BI is tops

    Reviewed 3 years ago

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    Utkarsh B.

    Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

    Used daily for 1-2 years

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    • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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    How Powerful is Power BI ?

    Reviewed 2 years ago

    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.

    Pros

    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.

    Cons

    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.

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    Federico A.

    Banking, 1-10 employees

    Used daily for 6-12 months

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    • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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    Great tool for Data Analysis and Dashboards

    Reviewed a year ago

    My overall experience is great, using it to compile, perform ETL, prepare reports and create Dashboards is simply powerful.

    Pros

    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.

    Cons

    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.

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    Joshua m.

    Computer Software, 201-500 employees

    Used weekly for 2+ years

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    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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    Microsoft Power B1 is a Useful Tool in this data driven Digital World of Today

    Reviewed 2 months ago

    Overall, this is a great product for data visualization.

    Pros

    - 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...

    Cons

    - 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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    Verified reviewer

    Management Consulting, 201-500 employees

    Used daily for 6-12 months

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    • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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    A pretty reporting tool for some (!) Microsoft Products, but pretty much useless outside of the Microsoft Landscape

    Reviewed 7 years ago

    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...

    Pros

    pretty visuals Power Query On-premises Data Gateway responsible Pro Support

    Cons

    lack of data sources pretty useless for 3rd Party Web Sources

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    Sai R.

    Internet, 51-200 employees

    Used daily for less than 6 months

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    • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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    Strong visualization platform

    Reviewed 4 months ago

    Experience with Microsoft Power BI was really good and their support is a strong plus

    Pros

    Microsoft Power BI is very versatile with creating dashboards and reports. Controlling access levels is efficient

    Cons

    Microsoft Power BI is not that easy to use when compared to Looker. Looker has stronger features and capabilities.

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