Name: Microsoft Power BI
Rating: 4.4 (4096 reviews)

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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.

Overall experience with Microsoft Power BI

BUSINESS ANALYST

<50M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Real-Time Dashboards And App Features Enhance Power BI Despite Performance Issues”

4.0

Jan 13, 2026

Overall Experience is overwhelming with Power BI due to its open source platform where you have leverage to use sheet and make dashboard over the sheet and not limited to just sheet they have lot of data source available from where you can pull your data to make dashboard real time which is awesome.

DATA ANALYTICS MANAGER

50M - 250M USD, Retail

CRITICAL

“Similar Features Ease Learning but Sudden Changes and Licensing Remain Challenging”

3.0

Dec 18, 2025

It's right now not the best but the easiest to understand, the similarities with some other products in the suite help a lot to this product.

About Company

Company Description

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

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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Couple of things which I liked the most: 1) You have multiple options of data sources where you can connect your data to build dashboards 2) Second thing which I like most is that you can work on the dashboard with the desktop feature and when you are ready with the dashboard you can publish it on the web where everyone can see it. 3) Third thing is the App feature introduced by power bi where you can collate multiple dashboards in one place and you can even access the dashboard through with the mobile devices which is very useful.

* Capability of some other products that you will find here making your time to market improve. * If you want to start you do not have to pay, it's reachable for everyone just searching on store. * A lot of documentation and community with years of experiences.

Microsoft Power BI is very easy to integrate with other Microsoft products like Excel and SQL server. As we were working within the Microsoft ecosystem, it was incredibly convenient. The drag and drop interface makes report creation intuitive. Within Power BI it is also very easy to share dashboards with teams and setup real time data refreshes which keep everyone aligned and on the same page without any extra efforts.

These are the places where I realised they have to improve: 1) underlying data you can't access within the dashboard - I think this should be required because if you see that a metric has dipped then you can just click on that metric and see the underlying data to see who is contributing to the dip so you do not have to download raw data and apply multiple filters to see who is contributing to the dip in that metric. 2) Some pre-formatted graphics need to exist in power bi so that let's say if I have created a dashboard with multiple widgets and visualizations and apply that format it will make our whole dashboard in a better way. 3) When the dashboard file is exceeding more than 400 mb it will be very slow in responding if we are doing any changes which is very painful for us to work.

* Using it is like having some excel with visualization and relational model, it's not something that helps you to talk easily with data just easy to use and connect. * It's pretty difficult to understand licenses if you are looking for it. * Some features and changes will just happen with no alert or communication.

Power BI sometimes feels a bit heavy and complex when working with large datasets or multiple sources. Sometimes Dashboards with large data take longer time to refresh, especially when we work with direct query mode. Some of the customization options feel limited unless we use additional visuals from the marketplace.

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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

Microsoft Power BI Reviews and Ratings

Recommended Gartner Insights

<50M USD

IT Services

Review Source

Real-Time Dashboards And App Features Enhance Power BI Despite Performance Issues

PROCUREMENT ASSOCIATE

50M-1B USD

Consumer Goods

A powerful and intuitive data visualization tool that rewards planning and patience

5.0

Dec 23, 2025

Microsoft Power BI has become one of my go-to tools for transforming raw data into insightful and interactive dashboards. My overall experience was quite smooth and productive. It feels professional user even I am not a business analyst but setting up data connections, cleaning up sources and visualizing complex numbers into something which actually tells a story has been easier than I expected.

Engineering Manager

Manufacturing

Data Integration Across Companywide Sources Simplified with Power BI Platform

Jan 28, 2026

Power BI surprised our team with how simple it is to connect data across different companywide sources; this compared to our previous legacy analytics platform.

Project Lead

Services (non-Government)

Performance May Slow With Large Datasets And Advanced Modeling Requires Learning DAX

Feb 18, 2026

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

Vertical Head

1B-10B USD

Insurance (except health)

Power BI Offers Flexible Data Insights but May Some time Slow Down With Large Datasets

Jan 10, 2026

Overall experience is amazing with Power BI, as the name explains, it is powerful, flexible and widely adopted by the organisation as a business intelligence tool. Amazing experience.