Name: Microsoft Power BI
Rating: 4.4 (4097 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

Vice President

50M - 250M USD, Services (non-Government)

FAVORABLE

“Power BI Simplifies Data Visualization But Faces Challenges With Large Data Sets”

5.0

Mar 19, 2026

Microsoft Power BI is a great tool for data visualisation, as a matter of fact, it is one of the best available too

Business Analyst

250M - 500M USD, Retail

CRITICAL

“Summary of up and downsides of Power BI as Data Prep tool”

3.0

Mar 21, 2023

This is in my opinion very basic software for data analysys. One of it's biggest strenghts is community support, but software itself lacks in efficiency, especially with big data sets.

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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Microsoft Power BI Likes & Dislikes

Nowadays it is assisted by AI and has great visuals for data After switching to MS ecosystem, it is integrated very easily It can be used to publish various dashboards which refresh on their own.

Community support. Continious development through monthly updates. Ease of use for unexperinced users.

Easy to configure: starting with all data sources available, transformation of data is also easy to do, it has majority of the most common transformations and presenting the data is also easy.

Basic Power BI is great but expert level needs experience if the data size is big then it takes a bit of time

Issues with software performance when using big data sets. No archive of reports making it impossible to restore after accidentally deleting something from area. No ability to easily create custom data connectors.

sometimes is hard to find what you are looking for, not to many options for presenting data, to too much customization on the dashboards

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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

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Market Guide for Data Preparation Tools

50M-1B USD

Services (non-Government)

Review Source

Power BI Simplifies Data Visualization But Faces Challenges With Large Data Sets

REMOTE MANAGED SERVICES SENIOR DIRECTOR

Banking

Intuitive Platform With Streamlined Data Setup and Limited Dashboard Customization

4.0

Dec 10, 2025

Tool is very nice if you are starting with data, intuitive at starting level and has everything you need in one place

IT MANAGER

Energy and Utilities

Great analysis tool!

May 14, 2025

The best tool to analyze data and obtain information and knowledge from almost everywhere.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYST

Gov't/PS/Ed

Government

Transform your companies BI with Power BI

Jan 20, 2025

Power BI and Power Platform are a transformational technology to bring to your business. The ease of use and intuitive user friendly interface aligned with other Microsoft tools our team and users are already accustomed too.

ENGINEERING MANAGER

10B+ USD

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Power BI - Powerful Data Preparation Tool for Companies

Jan 12, 2025

Microsoft Power BI is an outstanding business intelligence tool that can provide powerful data visualization, real-time analytics and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications. The drag-and-drop interface with templates makes the dashboard creation fun and time-saving. A powerful data preparation tool which is available to companies.