Microsoft BI Pros review quotes

Deepak Damodarr - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 12, 2022
The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly.
AS
Feb 9, 2022
The one feature most of our customers like is data visualization. When we were doing BI directly from SQL, most users found it challenging to create their own reports. Power BI has self-serve analytics that the end-users can do themselves. On most projects, people are primarily using data visualization and self-serve analytics.
JM
May 19, 2023
They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license.
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SG
Jan 20, 2022
Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features.
EP
Feb 9, 2022
Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly.
IG
Dec 15, 2021
It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis.
MB
Jan 25, 2022
There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources.
Alaa T Alhorani - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 25, 2022
The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R.
RU
Dec 27, 2021
It's a straightforward setup.
AM
Sep 5, 2022
What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel.

Microsoft BI Cons review quotes

Deepak Damodarr - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 12, 2022
here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs.
AS
Feb 9, 2022
These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business.
JM
May 19, 2023
I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility.
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SG
Jan 20, 2022
There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another.
EP
Feb 9, 2022
From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT.
IG
Dec 15, 2021
One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel.
MB
Jan 25, 2022
My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Alaa T Alhorani - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 25, 2022
Most of the dashboarding tools have prebuilt graphs. So, you have to stick with them, unless you are going to use a third-party tool to create them, and then you are going to upload them to the BI tool. In Power BI, they started supporting this functionality and created a tool for that, but it isn't yet complete and mature. It is still exceeding the expectations and is better than most of the BI tools when it comes to creating custom graphs, but it needs more enhancement and simplification. It would be good to have a design tool provided by Power BI to design the graphs that we want and set the figures that we want on them.
RU
Dec 27, 2021
here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report.
AM
Sep 5, 2022
The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version.