--- title: Microsoft Power BI Reviews meta_title: 'Microsoft Power BI Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 1657 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft Power BI works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 1657 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-03' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Microsoft Power BI Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1,657 **AI Verified:** At least 10 G2 reviewers have confirmed using this product's AI features and functionality. ## About Microsoft Power BI Power BI Desktop puts visual analytics at your fingertips. With this powerful authoring tool, you can create interactive data visualizations and reports. Connect, mash up, model, and visualize your data. Place visuals exactly where you want them, analyze and explore your data, and share content with others by publishing to the Power BI web service. Power BI Desktop is part of the Power BI product suite. To monitor key data and share dashboards and reports, use the Power BI web service. To view and interact with your data on any mobile device, get the Power BI Mobile app on the AppStore, Google Play or the Microsoft Store. To embed stunning, fully interactive reports and visuals into your applications use Power BI Embedded. ## Microsoft Power BI Pros & Cons Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews. **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Microsoft Power BI, allowing accessible data analysis for everyone. (137 reviews) - Users find Power BI’s **data visualization capabilities** excellent for creating customized reports and dashboards quickly. (125 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integrations** of Power BI, enabling efficient data connectivity and enhanced organizational analysis. (66 reviews) - Users praise the **powerful data analytics and visualization** capabilities of Microsoft Power BI for insightful reporting. (63 reviews) - Users love the **powerful charting features** in Power BI, enabling easy data visualization and report creation. (49 reviews) - Users value the **seamless data integration** capabilities of Power BI, enhancing accessibility across various data sources and platforms. (49 reviews) - Setup Ease (46 reviews) - Data Analysis (40 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of Microsoft Power BI, seamlessly connecting with Microsoft products and various data sources. (40 reviews) - Efficiency (40 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **learning curve steep** for Power BI, especially for beginners trying to connect data sources effectively. (75 reviews) - Users find the **slow performance** of Power BI frustrating, especially when handling large datasets without optimization. (68 reviews) - Users face **performance issues** with Power BI, especially regarding DAX queries and handling large data volumes, causing frustration. (29 reviews) - Users often find **data modeling complexities** in Power BI challenging, leading to a steep learning curve and performance issues. (27 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** options in Power BI frustrating, constraining their ability to present data effectively. (25 reviews) - Users find the **expensive additional fees** for premium features burdensome, especially for small teams and individuals. (22 reviews) - Complexity (21 reviews) - Complex Usage (19 reviews) - Users find that **missing features** in Microsoft Power BI require extra effort and training to navigate effectively. (19 reviews) - Users experience **slow loading times** when handling large datasets in Power BI, impacting their workflow efficiency. (15 reviews) ## Microsoft Power BI Reviews ### 1. Best dashboard tool for data visualisation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** I am using power bi from last 5 years. I like its user interface it’s quite easy to understand and the most important thing i have already worked on ms access and ms excel so its quite similar it terms of formulas and easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** There are no such dislike but one thing that Microsoft should review it’s licensing cost as most of the small layer companies can’t afford it whereas other tools available in market with low cost. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** What i have did on power bi that i have created several dashboards for our management which is available on their PC and getting live data pictures with auto refreshing functionality. ### 2. Excellent tool for Analytics. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srikanth B. | Associate Lead, Process Excellence, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Connected huge files and databases easily and analyze that helps in decision making. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Publishing option not available for trail version users. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Operational efficiency and automated dashboards that helps in measuring TAT for every 3 hours. ### 3. Most versatile visulization tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak S. | Program Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** 1. if one has M365 which includes PowerBI pro, then integration with other M365 applicaiton like, excel in one drive, sharepoint etc becomes very easy. 2. Easy to install 3. Compare to Tableau, which cost ~$1500/- for even using the application, we can use the PowerBI tool for free and if want to publish and share the dashboard then only we pay. This is specially helpful for beginners to learn the tool without shelling out money. 4. Best suited for daily analysis of the data **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** 1. if the dataset are large and complex relationships are developed, then the performance decreases. 2. Some visulization which are third party are expensive in PowerBI, quite frankly this should have been default visulization in PowerBI example : Radar Chart, Box plot **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. The management gets to see the live performance of the metrics which makes the decision making easier, if we have comnnection to Azure, Datalake etc, then the refresh frequency can be increased in a day. 2. Easy to visulise the data, although DAX is slighlty complex, but if one masters it or able to take help of community forums one can accomplish in making dynamic charts which. ### 4. Best tool to create ETL & Standard Dashboard **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit S. | Manager - Analytics , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** If you know excel and SQL, you can create the ETL. Also, it’s easy to use and manage. The cost per user of this tool is merely $8 and desktop version is free. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** The limited standard widgets it offers for free. A lot many widgets which are useful for my project are paid apart from the $8/month I am paying per user. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me create an ETL which is later on used as QA tool for the ETL created using coding in JavaScript. Also I created a lot of dashboards for my organisation within few days which helped them take business decisions. ### 5. Power BI :- A Bi Tool not only use for Visualization but also use for Analytics. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Romit K. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power Bi is best for visualization of Charts & Graph. It is soo interactive that is not present on other tools. The best part of Power BI is drag down i.e you can further analysis by click on charts then it will filter out the data based on filter selection. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Nothing, even I like it soo much. It reduces my daily manual task. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have to provide daily KPI's to My manager. Daily KPI's take too much time to generate report. I just linked my daily data to Power BI using Oracle SQL. I have to just refresh the data & my daily reports is generated. ### 6. One of the best Reporting Tool out there !! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham L. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** It's ecosystem helps us to connect use and efficiently use Microsoft Products like PowerBi. It is really powerful and the performance is also top notch. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Price is too high. We need something which is open source or else the pricing should be less. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are generating reports for our business. Also we make business decisions based on the reports that we create in powerbi. ### 7. Microsoft Power BI Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satender Singh B. | Resource Development Manager, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** We use power BI in our recruitment process, it helps alot in analysis of candidate pipelines, hiring trends, and my performance. A real time dashboard helps us to track open positions, application volumes, interview stages, and offer acceptance rates **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** some of those who are not from technical background can face issue using Power BI in recruitment. Several report generation, tracking performance and all needs some time to learn **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in reducing my time in report generation and tracking my performance details ### 8. Exceptional for Data Transformation and Cleaning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Data transformation and cleaning, speed. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** When you cant use a dax always for charts. Sometimes you need to create a calculated column for it to work on charts. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seamless integration with snowflake, quick and easy ELT. ### 9. Best reporting system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mine K. | Area Sales Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power BI is a great tool to see the necessary reports in one screen. You may filter, make changes if necessary. You can also ask for emails if you want to receive saved reports every week/month etc. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It is very helpful so there is really nothing I don't like **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to see the sales results of my team, all their visit numbers, projects and all sales related activities ### 10. Seamless Microsoft Cloud Integration with Power BI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi S. | Infrastructure Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Great integrated Microsoft cloud ecosystem. Power BI integration with all Microsoft solution **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Power BI is constrained to operate within the same domain. It has to be domain independent **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI is used to create analytical dashboard by integrating many data point from various business application ### 11. Maximize the potential of data with Microsoft Power BI interactive dashboards. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar B. | Electrical Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Microsoft Power BI has a flexible and easy-to-use platform, making it accessible to users of all experience levels. It is super complete, it offers several features, but our favorite is the interactive dashboards, it is a key feature dashboards that summarize the most relevant data of our business, including metrics, KPI's, and other types of related information. In addition, dashboards can be adapted to the company's style and allow you to add filters, search and other navigation elements that make it easier to analyze relevant information. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It does not integrate with network monitoring tools, having that integration would be wonderful to analyze network data without having to resort to other software. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thanks to Microsoft Power BI, with its interactive dashboards we can clearly and concisely visualize complex data, such as network performance data, spectrum usage and other relevant metrics. ### 12. Great tool for insights on your first oarty data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gauri Basant S. | Display & Programmatic Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** The UI is very intuitive, since its cloud, everybody on tbe team sees the same data. Great tool to visualize large chunk of data coming from multiple sources in one place. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** There are places where they can do better such as helping us forecast trends based on past analysis. I think that area is predictive analytics **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing large chuk of data in a quick and easy way. ### 13. Turning Data into Decisions Effortlessly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farha S. | Senior Corporate Trainer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Its capabilities to connect with multiple data sources and also custom APIs **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** The limits to upload Data in Power BI Desktop **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft Power BI is solving multiple challenges in data analysis and reporting like Real-Time Insights, Complex Data Simplified, Data Integration from Multiple Sources, Complex Data Simplified. ### 14. Great tool to visualise your data for decision making **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nandagopal B. | Senior Specialist - Global CapEx Financial Analysis SSC, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power Bi helps to visualise the data from our multiple sources to display in one place with row level security features. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It need indepth knowledge in DAX function to write complex functions. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its helps to visualise the table data into charts, summary table, AI generated content, report extraction features, auto email notifications etc. ### 15. Microsoft Power BI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Damar D. | Analista de Seguridad de Plataformas Senior, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **AI Translated:** This review has been translated from Spanish; Castilian using AI. **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Ease of use, ease of implementation, ease of integration with different solutions, which is used in the BI area daily. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Operating system limitation and performance issues. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Generation of engagement indicators, product and service dashboards, Safetica security events. ### 16. Great tool for data visualization and decision-making **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** I like how easy it is to turn complex data into clear, interactive dashboards. The drag-and-drop interface is very intuitive, and I can quickly connect to different data sources without much setup. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Sometimes the learning curve can be a bit steep when it comes to DAX formulas or more advanced features. Also, large datasets can slow things down a bit. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI helps us manage and visualize a wide range of reports that support management decisions — including customer receivables, supplier payables, operational overviews, balance summaries, and much more. Having everything in one place makes it easier to track performance and respond faster. ### 17. Power BI for Data Dashboard **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tanish K. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power BI is easy to use and you can easily visualise, you can connect them to extract data via azure, gcp and excel. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** At a particular period of time when dealing with large dataset, it will become slower. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to manage KPI AND METRICS, It is interactive, user friendly and easy to integrate into your system, it is widely used also can import power point. ### 18. Easy to Design and develop business dashboard and reports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power BI makes data easy to understand with interactive visuals, real-time dashboards, and smart insights—all in one user-friendly tool. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Configuring measures through Dax formula is very tedious at times. Also, the default library of visualization is very limited compared with Qlik. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our business, Power BI helps us bring together data from different departments i.e. sales, operations, and finance into one clear dashboard. This means we can track performance in real time, spot issues early, and make faster, data-driven decisions. It also saves us time by automating reports and makes it easier for teams to collaborate and stay aligned. ### 19. Most advanced way of reporting. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun r. | Reporting Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** User-Friendly Interface 2. Powerful Visualizations 3. Seamless Data Connectivity 4. Data Modeling &DAX 5. Cloud-Based Sharing 6. AI & Machine Learning 7. Cost-Effective 8. Mobile Access 9. Custom Visuals & Extensions 10. Strong Microsoft Ecosystem Integration **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** There is no point of dislike about Microsoft power BI **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to effectively use the time and the report makes more explanation than Excel report ### 20. Powerful Features and Effortless Usability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Its capabilities and inclusive features. Its super easy to learn and use. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** The UI can be a bit clumsy, but it is easy to learn. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft Power BI centralizes and visualizes data from multiple sources, enabling faster insights and data-driven decision-making, which improves efficiency and reporting accuracy. ### 21. An amazing tool for data management & visualization. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Imran H. | Executive - Leasing & Property Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Intuitive Data Visualization, Affordability, Community & Customization, AI-Powered Insights, Seamless Microsoft Integration **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Power Query M can feel overwhelming for beginners, Mobile App Limitations **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a Property Sales Power BI lets me focus on insights instead of data-wrangling. It helped me to arrange big data which is difficult to visualize. Last month, I reduced weekly reporting time by 70%. ### 22. Heading in the right direction, but far from perfect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luke M. | Business Intelligence Analyst and Manager of Data Department, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Integration with Microsoft office suite. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Slow updates at times. Not as customizable as I'd like. Dax can make simple tasks a little time consuming **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** visualizing our data, connecting to our data warehouse and providing scheduled refreshes. ### 23. Effortless Integration with a User-Friendly Interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikram K. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Easy to use, many connectors available for all services **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** takes lots of effort to make dashboard look good **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Show KPI to sharholders ### 24. Great analytics tool that allows users to enable data visualization into their reports. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Noy H. | MH Lending Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Interactive dashboards, data connectivity, collaboration, and real-time data updates. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** There's a greater learning curve for beginner users, licensing and cost complexities especially for multiple users in a company (knowing which pricing model to get for each user), performance constraints when using data with large datasets. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biggest problem Microsoft Power BI is solving is our manual reporting and analysis. Allows for report automation as well as cuts down on user errors. ### 25. Great tool to check the metrics on a daily basis without checking on multiple reports **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** pradeep n. | Project Delivery Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** The dashboard and the visuals used were simple yet easy to understand **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** The refresh time must be changed as there will be delay in showing the exact data **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Going through multiple excel sheets is reduced by taking less amount of time ### 26. Power BI - Makes Data Talk **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham K. | Implementation Specialist, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power BI offers the following advantages to its users and viewers which makes it a volatile product to be used - 1) A non technical person can easily navigate , view , visualize and distinguish the dashboard. 2) A large number of raw , discrete data can be easily formalized into N numbers of formats , tables , charts for the end users to get a concise picture of the data to be presented. 3) Collaboration by creating workspaces created by the users with his/her coworkers where reports and dashboards can be accessed. 4) User can create more personalized dashboard which can prove interactive and pleasing to new audience. 5)Many software services , applications and connectors can work together to convert one's unrelated source of data into visually interactive insights which can be easily navigated and filtered and real time data can be represented. 6) Every few moments the data get refreshed automatically giving user a real time overview of data. 7) Can be integrated easily with other Microsoft applications with no or low maintenance and expertise. 8) No complex implementation , easy to implement and less support required. 9) **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** The dislike can be categorized as - 1) User has limited editing options on a web interface application. 2) Loading of the reports consumes more time. 3) Access management and security issues are often faced. 4)Over complex visuals require more time to load. 5) Excess data tables cannot be pulled efficiently , one needs to apply proper filters to fetch the data. 6)Query performance is often slowed down due to poor data analysis expressions leading to slower user experience. 7) When the credential expires there in frequent interruption in refreshing the schedules . 8)There is challenge in lack of transparency in user access management , leading to auditing challenges. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our industry we are using Power BI for the following purpose - 1) As we are working on multiple clients , multiple countries and multiple business units , we are utilizing Power BI to get a real time view of all the project status either in pipeline , signed and planned , completed , on hold etc. 2) Project completion status , project escalation status can be tracked easily while using Power BI. 3) The vendors , various stakeholders , various contracts assigned to the client can be checked , accessed , edited whenever required which gives our Implementation Specialists an over view about the accountability a concerned spoc holds in a project. 4) The RAG status , escalation matrix , RACI matrix and other matrix are now implemented on our Power BI application which helps us track our project status more proactively. 5) Instead of using Sharepoint we are accessing Microsoft Power Bi to get more appealing and visually pleasing data for our contract dates and change cycle management. 6) Budget forecasting in CAPEX and OPEX scenarios has become quite easy using Power BI dashboards. 7) As we share and exchange and handle large amount of discrete data , we are able to properly prioritize , sort the data , and are able to read and visualize the same on the dashboards created. 8) Instead of using boring charts and pie diagram , real time moving and sorting filtered data required can be easily achieved over clients call which is more fruitful than old charts and tables. 9) Local office are now using the Income statements , balance sheets and Variance reports , Headcount reports that are generated from Power BI during our payroll processing which has eased their task. 10) A large amount of data is been integrated from various data sources and is automated for day to day routine task making the payroll processing , master data management more easier. ### 27. How helpful is Power BI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** What I like the most is that it is really easy to use; you don't need to overthink or complicate things to know how to use it. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Sometimes it is not very intuitive, and that makes things more complicated. I find that DAX might be hard to use sometimes. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** When you have a large amount of data and need a better way to present it simply. ### 28. Microsoft Power BI, the best marketing technology manager and creator. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John A. | Security IT Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** This business analysis tool is a marvel, it can really cover any important task for which a professional person would be needed, it works in several areas and in all the performance is excellent, in this case I highlight the Marketing area because it has helped us to increase the number os customers. Microsoft Power BI offers analytics and monitoring for online marketing campaigns, either email or social networks, this has allowed us to evaluate and make successful decisions. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** I have nothing negative to comment on Power BI, all my comments are positive. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are always analyzing data in real time, Microsoft Power BI generates reports and dashboards in real time, which allows us to see the most current information in the marketing area and work with what is trending. ### 29. Microsoft Power BI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran Kumar M. | Project Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Microsoft Power BI is a powerful Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualization tool designed for transforming raw data into meaningful insights through interactive dashboards, reports, and visuals. It integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft ecosystem, especially Excel, Azure, and SQL Server. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** 1. Steep Learning Curve for Advanced Users 2. Performance Issues with Large Datasets 3. Confusing Licensing and Cost Structure 4. Limited Customization in Visuals **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Disconnected and Siloed Data Sources 2. Manual Reporting and Spreadsheets 3. Lack of Data Visibility for Stakeholders 4. Limited Collaboration and Sharing of Insights ### 30. Industry Standard, Easy Setup, Widely Adopted **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** It industry standard and widely used. Easy to setup. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It can be complex to handle and basic users need some training. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting and creating views for executives and teams. ### 31. Review of MS Power BI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** What I like best about Power BI is its user-friendly interface, wide data source support, and interactive visuals that make exploring data easy. it's very easy to implement and don't take much time and it's also fun to explore and play with. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** What I dislike about Power BI is that complex DAX formulas can be tricky to learn, and sometimes performance slows down with large datasets or too many visuals on a single report. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** the main problem its solving is that i have linked it with the sales navigator so it shows me how much of a work every team member is doing and because of which i can determine who to have a perfomance review on and vice versa ### 32. A very strong Buisness Intelligence Tool provided by Microsoft **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divyansh T. | Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Best about Power BI is that it provides a very user friendly and beginner friendly interface to all the users. It is used to integrate several Databases such as CSV, Excel or Online Databases such as MSSQL and others. It supports large number of databases and have an inbuilt power query editor which can do data transformation between PowerBI only, no need of external software. It have a very vast customer support team as its a product of Microsoft and they serve their customers the best. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Its typical to type code in DAX language, as its typical to learn DAX because first we need to learn that DAX language then we can write measures. So anyone could access power bi dashboard directly but cannot create dashboards directly as you need to have knowledge about coding and DAX language with strong logic building skills. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI is solving all visualization alalytics problem for our organisation as we work for a Analytics service providing company which serves visually appealing interactive dashboards to the foreign clients. It keeps us away from hectic pivot tables of excel and makes our report visually appealing and clean, which is easier to be read by anyone who is also non technical field. ### 33. The power of visual analytics: how Microsoft Power BI turns your data into valuable information. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian N. | Occupational Safety Supervisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** This business intelligence tool is very valuable for our company, it transforms data into useful and profitable information in a visual, easy to understand and super accesible way. Microsoft Power BI stands out for its incredible machine learning techniques, makes predictions and analyzes data accurately, this helps us to identify trends in sales data and identify the best market opportunities. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It requires a robust and reliable IT infrastructure to work at its best, this implies investments in hardware, software and maintenance personnel. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have increased efficiency by a large percentage, since Microsoft Power BI is responsible for creating and presenting the reports we need for decision making that govern the company, we really save a lot of time and work. ### 34. Incredibly Powerful Data Visualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack G. | SVP, Head of PMO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Data visualization (dashboards) help us to see trending of our full portfolio at a glance **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It does seem a little more focused on developers/technical report writers than standard business users **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We did not have a way to visualize data without extracting data and then using Excel ### 35. Data Drive Decision-Transform Raw data into meaningful direction **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shahed S. | Power BI Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Reporting and Analysis like ETL Transformation using Power query **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Less Ai feature like ML mode and Ai model Adoptability **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting was mostly manual. I had to spend hours every week updating reports, formatting Excel sheets, and preparing visuals for stakeholders, which left less time for deeper analysis. ### 36. Empowers Data Visualization for Informed Decisions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** The software allows me to visualize data effectively, which helps in making informed decisions. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Hidden costs and low AI capabilities and less intuitive UI **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is useful for creating reports from large data sets, which supports better decision-making. ### 37. Explore the data you need for your business with Microsoft Power BI interactive dashboards. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nizza B. | Technical Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** This software allows us to visualize and explore data interactively, it offers different types of visualization (charts, graphs and tables) which allows us to better analyze any important information when making decisions for the company. In addition, Microsoft Power BI allows you to export the data to different formats to save and share with anyone who needs the information. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** It is necessary to have a team that is trained to master this software, as some users may be overwhelmed by the amount of data and may fail to interpret or use it. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can analyze sales and energy consumption data in a more detailed way, this has made us increase productivity because it allows us to evaluate efficiency and detect areas that need to be improved. ### 38. Power BI makes data analysis intuitive, powerful, and visually stunning **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** bhavesh u. | Power BI Report Writer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Recently updates about enhance accessibility, and more reporting experience and AI capability. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** More customizable data visualization options, especially for complex reports. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI enables me to understand complex data without having to spend hours digging through spreadsheets. It eliminates the problem of scattered, hard-to-read data by bringing it all together in one place and making it easy, visual dashboards. It is so much easier to spot trends, track performance, and make intelligent decisions quickly. It also saves me enormous time by running reports that I used to do myself, and as data is updated in real-time, I always have the latest information right there in front of me. ### 39. Power BI Review: Transforming Data into Decisions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav D. | Team Leader, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Power BI is a powerful and user-friendly business analytics tool from Microsoft that makes data visualization and reporting intuitive and accessible. With its drag-and-drop interface, seamless Excel integration, and wide range of connectors, it’s ideal for turning raw data into interactive dashboards and insights. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Limited customization in visuals compared to some competitors **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** • Easy to use, even for non-technical users • Strong data modeling and DAX capabilities • Real-time dashboards and automated refreshes • Integration with Microsoft 365 and Azure ### 40. Interactive databases and reporting **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Ease of use and integration with various DB tools to prepare interactive dashboards for your data driven job. Easy to check and implement in customer support, where we measure various KPIs and metrics, on a daily basis. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** System works with difficulty when using big DBs **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putting data into perspective in interactive dashboards ### 41. Very useful BI Tool for developing reports and dashboards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** It is Smart, visual, connected, and secure **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** complex and slow with large amount of data **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI unifies data, automates reports, enables insights, and boosts smarter decisions. I have been using it from past 6 years for building Reports and Dashboards and delivering to clients. ### 42. Powerfull Analytical and data Visualization Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay Kumar Rai K. | Data scientist, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Ease of use, user friendly interface, Real time data access, Scalable **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Data size, Compatibility issue, Cost, Limited customization for Visuals **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you have M365 license, then you can use powerbi without paying extra. Also easy to learn and develop a dashboard/ Report with minimum knowledge ### 43. Best tool to create real time dashboards. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John P. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** It helps us to create professional visual dashboards. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** The price of the application is somewhat high. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** The team is working towards integrating a lot of AI features into the application. ### 44. From Spreadsheets to Dashboards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gustavo M. | Carrier sales, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Connects to multiple data sources, drag-and-drop visuals, and has no heavy learning curve **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Not all visuals display cleanly on mobile **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI brings it all together in one dashboard with live updates, Set up live dashboards showing lane performance, load status, or margin trends. ### 45. Easiest and fastest way to leverage your company data and generate information, insight and wisdom! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Allen A. | Data Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Data modelling option available within Power BI **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** So many options and features in Power BI, you can never truly master all of it. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to drive reports directly from Excel sheet on SharePoint site without having to resort a database for data store. ### 46. The best power BI tool introduced by Microsoft **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geetesh B. | Software Quality Assurance Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Microsoft provided version functions to use Power BI. We can create a variety of reports and also customize them. It provides filtering data to manage relationships between several tables. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Some of the features are locked for Pro or license version, making it difficult for small organizations. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI has AI capabilities and a real-time dashboard. It offers very easy ways to set up data with Excel and cloud apps. Using this, we can achieve our targets set by clients. ### 47. Best in Class BI Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham C. | Lead Associate Procurement & Sourcing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Creating Dashboard is quite easy & interactive views are available **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** When handling very large datasets, Power BI can sometimes lag or become slow without optimized queries or data modeling. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** From Excel based database to custom dashboard ### 48. Great Visuals and easy for end users to navigate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David E. | Health and Safety Adviser, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** the ease to upload data and manipulate to create great visuals **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** some functions need upgrading on users end to use certain visuals **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** creating cleaner visual and data segregation ### 49. My hands on review of Microsoft Power BI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vibhav B. | Trainee Corporate Procurement , Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Microsoft Power BI is a excellent tool for analysing and visually data into very insightful dashboards and reports as well as those dashboards can show real-time data as per changes and requirements. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Power BI?** Some of the dislikes about Microsoft Power BI is its advance and complex features like DAX queries as they require training to master them as well as the bigger problem can Power BI's free version as it doesn't allow that much features and charts for user to create reports. **What problems is Microsoft Power BI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power BI helps in creating very insightful and immersive dashboards and reports of complex data which when used correctly gives alot of important information from the data hence directly helping in decision making resulting in good business strategies. ### 50. Power Bi analytics at your fingertips **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tricia R. | Senior Product Specialist Capital Sales, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Microsoft Power BI?** Easy access on your mobile. All data in one place. Summary of how you are tracking to target. 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