Microsoft Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Analytics and business intelligence (ABI) platforms prepare, model, analyze and visualize data to support decision making. They deliver insights through AI-powered conversational experiences, interactive dashboards and classic reporting. They support collaboration between business and technical users for defining the dimensions, measures and business rules used to create and maintain semantic models. The platforms provide functionality for agentic analytics, where AI agents coordinate tasks across the data-to-insight workflow to automate insight delivery under governance and audit controls. Analytics and business intelligence platforms integrate data from multiple sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, cloud services and external data feeds, to provide a unified view of data, breaking down silos and transforming raw data into meaningful insights. They also allow users to clean, transform and prepare data for analysis, in addition to creating data models that define relationships between different data entities.

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Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

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Project Lead

I've used Microsoft Power BI to create dashboards and reports, and it's a very good, strong analytics tool. It really helps in connecting data from different sources like excel databases and cloud platforms and brings everything together in one place

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Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

Gov't/PS/ED 50,000 + Employees

Manager, Supply Chain

Data visualization platform already implemented in M365. Ideal for gaining insights by using the filter options.

Designer

My overall experience with Power BI has been positive.It is a powerful and user friendly tool for data visualization and business intelligence.The ability to connect to multiple data sources and create interactive dashboards makes it very effective for data analysis and reporting. I particularly appreciate its integration with other Microsoft products like excel and teams which enhances collaboration. 

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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.

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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. When we show up, we achieve more together. 

Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of more than 220,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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Favorable Review

Power BI Simplifies Complex Data With Interactive Visualizations And Collaboration Tools

Critical Review

Microsoft out-of-the-box data visualization solution

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