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Power BI Review Disadvantages Advantages Pros Cons

June 1, 2021 By Steve_Thomsan

(Last Updated On: March 18, 2022)

Power BI Review – Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics tool provided by Microsoft. It provides interactive visualisations with self-service business intelligence capabilities.

Microsoft Power BI is a solid and proven BI solution that has a large and growing user base and solid support ecosystem both online and from reputable Microsoft partners and vendors.

Most organisations find they have a lot of data but very little insights and to that end Power BI is a rich and fully featured powerful cloud-based service that helps business users, Management Information owners and data scientists visualise and share insights from their organisations’ data.

Power BI offers the capability to access data from more than 40 different data sources and databases covering everything from SQL2019 to Hadoop and Mongo, Azure and even Spark based architectures.

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There are two ways of accessing Power BI:

1. Via windows desktop (mainly targeted at developers)
2. Via a cut-down browser version (mainly targeted at Execs and report consumers)

To undertake real data manipulation, analysis and development you will need the Windows version of Power BI.

Microsoft is developing Power BI at a rapid rate and new versions and functionality are being released to keep the product ahead of the game.

There is a wealth of online reporting and visualisation templates that can be used to quickly generate eye catching graphics, maps and data visualisations. These are very easy to use and help non technical users get valuable reports and MI to market quickly. This is one of the key strengths of Power BI over and above other market leaders in this space such as Tableau and Spotfire.

Power BI is easy to use and given it’s vast corporate user base from it’s Microsoft SQL heritage is a real Enterprise Business Intelligence tool.

Power BI also serves well as a Mobile BI tool – ideal for presenting information to one the move senior execs via a range of dashboards and easy to drill down visualisations.

Power BI Pricing

Power BI pricing falls into two brackets; free and paid for.

For the Pro version you can use this for as little as

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Software Name
Microsoft Power BI
Operating System
Windows
Software Category
Business Intelligence Tool
Price
USD From Free
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Filed Under: Power BI Tagged With: Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power BI Review, Power BI, Power BI Advantages, Power BI Disadvantages, Power BI Pros and Cons, power bi review

About Steve_Thomsan

Steve is an experienced Business Intelligence consultant and practitioner with over 20 years experience delivering a range of Business Intelligence, Analytics and Big Data solutions. Steve writes extensively about the latest trends and technologies in the BI market and wider industry.

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