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Product Information on Microsoft Power BI

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a software designed for business analytics and data visualization. It enables users to aggregate, analyze, and share data through interactive dashboards and reports. The software supports integration with various data sources including databases, cloud services, and spreadsheets, allowing for real-time insights and data-driven decision making. Power BI provides features such as customizable visualizations, data modeling, and automated data refresh. It addresses business challenges related to data accessibility and analysis by offering tools to simplify complex data sets and present information in an understandable format. The software is suitable for organizations seeking to centralize business intelligence tasks within their workflow.

Microsoft Power BI Pricing

Microsoft Power BI software uses a subscription-based pricing model, offering different plans that may be billed monthly or annually. The software provides options for individual users as well as organizations, with prices varying by features such as data capacity, collaboration tools, and integration capabilities. Some versions of the software may also be included as part of broader suite licenses.

Overall experience with Microsoft Power BI

Director of Supply Chain
10B - 30B USD, Manufacturing
FAVORABLE

“A powerful, intuitive analytics platform that elevates Demand planning visibility and decision-making ”

5.0
Jan 24, 2026
My overall experience with Power BI has been very positive. It provides a powerful, user-friendly platform for building interactive dashboards and turning large, complex datasets into clear, actionable insights. The interface is intuitive, and features like drilldowns, dynamic filters, and natural language queries make it easy to explore data quickly. Integration with Excel, SharePoint, and other MS tools also streamlines reporting and collaboration across teams. While there is a learning curve for advanced modeling, the flexibility and visualization capabilities have significantly enhanced our ability to analyze performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
Welding Engineer
250M - 500M USD, Energy and Utilities
CRITICAL

“Microsoft Power BI for Supply chain analytics and collaboration.”

3.0
Apr 15, 2021
Microsoft Power BI is used to manage supply chain challenges in our organization. Using Microsoft Power BI we can estimate demand forecasting, supplier performance, damage analysis and fraud analysis. Microsoft Power BI can transform real time data into meaningful insights and creates dashboards and charts for easy representation and comparison. Microsoft Power BI stores and analyze all the critical data elements for the particular business purpose.

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4.7
Market Presence: Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Data Preparation Tools

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Microsoft Power BI Likes & Dislikes

Like

What I like most about PBI is how effectively it supports demand planning by turning large, multi-channel datasets into clear, interactive dashboards. It allows me to quickly analyze forecast accuracy, attainment, customer trends, and SKU performance without spending hours manipulating data. Automated refreshes ensure we are always looking at the latest orders and shipment signals and features like drill downs and DAX calculations make it easy to identify variances, root causes, and opportunities. PBI has significantly improved visibility, alignment and decision making across our demand planning and commercial teams

Like

Microsoft Power BI can run on premises and cloud as well, provides 360 degree view and highly scalable.

Like

The interactive user interface that instantly and intuitively helps understanding the data

Dislike

What I dislike about PBI is that more advanced capabilities, such as complex data modeling, DAX calculations, and customizing relationships -require a steeper learning curve. For Demand Planning, where we often work with large datasets across multiple sources, performance can slow down unless the data model is optimized carefully. Additionally, setting up automated refreshes and troubleshooting failures sometimes require IT support, which can delay timely updates. While the tool is powerful, achieving the level of automation and scalability needed for high volume forecasting does take time and technical effort.

Dislike

Microsoft power BI could improve it's customization, ricing and contract negotiation policies.

Dislike

It a bit tricky to the the configurations of graphical controls exactly how you want them

Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About Microsoft Power BI

IT Manager
Is anyone using a central AI to report on project status in realtime highlighting dependencies and bottlenecks. Or are you just connecting project management systems (MS Project, Jira, Primavera) to dashboards with Power BI or Tableau?
CIO
Leading indicators are super useful because they give you a heads-up about potential problems instead of just telling you what’s already gone wrong. We are using an AI powered tool ( can't be named here, I guess) that gets you insights that help you notice issues before they escalate. Plus, it really encourages everyone to be transparent about project status so the whole team knows what’s going on from the get-go. This openness motivates everyone to take responsibility and helps build strong teams that tackle problems early on and stay focused on their goals together. Traditional reporting often comes too late to make necessary changes. By being proactive and embracing transparency with some AI support, teams can adapt and improve on their own. The key is to catch issues early and empower teams to make adjustments as needed. AI plays a role in all team decisions, like a performance coach, and also helps out at the management level. It identifies risks and suggests improvements for senior executives. I hope that helps? 🙂
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31 Mar 20252.5k Views2 Comments
Data Scientist
We are looking to modernize our Data & Analytics landscape. We have SAP BW & BusinessObjects(BO)/Analysis for Office(AO) now and  planning to move lake house based technology for DW and Power BI reporting. How was your experience in terms if  1.  Analysis for office(AO) replacement? 2.Overall change Management?
Data Manager
SAP Analysis for Office is not something I would recommend after using it for five years. It is clunky. The Azure storage/ Azure Data Factory/Power BI is perhaps the way to go. You can easily convert your SAP BO SQL to direct query method in PBI. 
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14 Feb 2025894 Views1 Comment

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  • Director of Supply Chain
    10B+ USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    A powerful, intuitive analytics platform that elevates Demand planning visibility and decision-making

    5.0
    Jan 24, 2026
    My overall experience with Power BI has been very positive. It provides a powerful, user-friendly platform for building interactive dashboards and turning large, complex datasets into clear, actionable insights. The interface is intuitive, and features like drilldowns, dynamic filters, and natural language queries make it easy to explore data quickly. Integration with Excel, SharePoint, and other MS tools also streamlines reporting and collaboration across teams. While there is a learning curve for advanced modeling, the flexibility and visualization capabilities have significantly enhanced our ability to analyze performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
  • HEAD OF IT
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Power BI Streamlines Supply Chain Processes with Interactive Data Insights

    4.0
    Nov 10, 2025
    Power BI provides outstanding functionality when aiming to streamline the supply chain processes
  • IT AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Power BI Streamlines Automation Reporting and Decision-Making for Project Teams

    5.0
    Sep 9, 2025
    Overall my experience with Power BI has been really great. I have been using Power BI on multiple projects which gives me very good insights & views about my Automation project. We have saved a lot of manual efforts by using Power BI. We have different automation tools connected to different data sources and getting all the data together is one of the complex tasks for us but Power BI made it easy for us. Reporting time reduced by ~60% to ~70% through automation. With this tool it is easy to see all the reports, insights and summary under one umbrella which helps the leadership team to make faster decisions. Non-technical users can explore data without relying on IT, boosting agility. I would say this one of the great tool for reporting and business users who needs metrics to take decisions further.
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Power BI Dashboards Driving Efficient Financial and CC Assist Reporting at CC

    5.0
    Aug 10, 2025
    Our experience has been positive, as we extensively use Power BI dashboards for various purposes, including CC financial reporting and the CC Assist dashboard. These dashboards have significantly streamlined our reporting processes and improved data visibility.
  • DATA ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Transforms Disorganized Data Into Actionable Insights With Intuitive Exploration Features

    5.0
    Aug 22, 2025
    Turns messy data into clear insights. Super handy tool. It's user-friendly, powerful and plays nicely with other Microsoft tools.
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4.7

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Evaluation & Contracting

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