# Power ON Reviews **Vendor:** insightsoftware **Category:** [Other Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 8 ## About Power ON Power ON's Visual Planner is an advanced add-in that transforms Microsoft Power BI into a comprehensive planning, budgeting, and forecasting platform. By integrating real-time data collection and write-back capabilities, Visual Planner enables users to edit data directly within Power BI dashboards and reports, observe immediate visualization updates, and save changes back to the underlying data repository. This seamless integration enhances collaboration and decision-making processes across organizations. Key Features and Functionality: - Real-Time Write-Back: Modify data directly within Power BI and push updates back to various data sources, ensuring immediate synchronization. - Excel-Like Interface: Utilize a familiar spreadsheet-style experience within Power BI, reducing the learning curve and increasing user adoption. - Integrated Planning and Forecasting: Perform budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling with full version control, all within the Power BI environment. - Enhanced Collaboration: Add comments, create scenarios, and track key performance indicators (KPIs in a centralized platform, fostering teamwork and transparency. - Advanced Data Modeling: Leverage features such as driver-based modeling, pivot tables, and smart formulas to build sophisticated data models. - Security and Governance: Maintain data integrity with role-based security, row-level security, and comprehensive audit logs. Primary Value and User Solutions: Visual Planner addresses the limitations of traditional Power BI by introducing interactive planning and write-back functionalities. It eliminates the need for external tools like Excel for data entry and scenario analysis, streamlining workflows and reducing errors associated with data silos. By enabling real-time data manipulation and collaboration within Power BI, organizations can enhance their financial planning and analysis (FP&A processes, improve decision-making speed, and adapt swiftly to market changes. This integration ensures that all departments are aligned, fostering a cohesive approach to budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning. ## Power ON Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users commend the **exceptional customer support** of Power ON, consistently providing quick and effective assistance for various issues. (2 reviews) - Users find Power ON to be **easy to use** , allowing for efficient operation and low maintenance after installation. (1 reviews) - Users value the **added functionality** of Power ON for direct database writing from Power BI dashboards, enhancing capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users find the **easy setup** of Power ON beneficial, leading to lower maintenance compared to other applications. (1 reviews) - Users value the **enhanced database integration** of Power ON, enabling impactful functionality and exceptional customer support. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **communication issues** arise during backend setup, requiring reliance on PowerON's technical team for support. (1 reviews) - Users face **complexity in back end setup** , often needing technical support, which limits self-sufficiency. (1 reviews) - Users find the **expertise required** for setup challenging, wishing for more self-sufficiency in the process. (1 reviews) - Users find the **setup process challenging** and often rely on technical support for assistance, reducing self-sufficiency. (1 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with Power ON, particularly when handling large datasets and loading visuals. (1 reviews) - Slow Processing (1 reviews) ## Power ON Reviews ### 1. Pretty useful for business **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aswini A. | Business Analyts, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Power ON?** Our business has been using this product for quite sometime now. Main highlight is their customer support. Over the years, we've had issues with application use, new installation etc. and they have responded quickly to all the queries. They even connected remotely and walked me through error resolution in their visual planner product, which we use for Power BI dashboard developing and reporting, even when we were on different time zones. The tool is easy to use once installed and avoids high maintenance as opposed to other applications for the same purpose. **What do you dislike about Power ON?** The application we use (Visual Planner) sometimes lags when dealing with large data. The load time of visuals is also high if the table has huge data. **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mainly use the visual planner which integrates as a custom power bi visual that allows users to interact with databases. This eliminates the need to create a separate application to interact with the database and other maintyenance associated with it. ### 2. Unlocks Power BI Potential with Write-Back and Outstanding Support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Power ON?** Power ON gave our team the added functionality of being able to write back to a database directly from our Power BI dashboards. This has so many different and valuable use cases and unlocked a lot of capabilities for us. Their customer support is exceptional and they are always will to work with us on new solutions and implementations. We have also only scratched the surface on potential use cases. I would recommend this product to anyone looking to add this type of functionality to their BI. **What do you dislike about Power ON?** The back end (database setup, connection, license configuration, etc.) is challenging and usually requires a call with PowerON's technical team. That team is very supportive and responsive which is great, but wish we were able to be a little more self sufficient with this. **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power ON is giving our team the ability to write back to databases directly from Power BI dashboards. This has a multitude of different use cases. ### 3. Power ON is the solution to Excel-loving demand planning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaykishan K. | Business Intelligence Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Power ON?** It's literally excel built in as a Power BI visual, which makes it easier to convince business users to use. The user-friendliness is the best. **What do you dislike about Power ON?** It has a learning curve as a developer but once used to it, it becomes easy. **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is providing writeback (entering data and saving to a database) within Power BI reports so organizations can provide planning and reporting solutions in one place. ### 4. Great Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** V M PAVAN KUMAR P. | IT analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Power ON?** The ability to perform writeback directly from PowerBI **What do you dislike about Power ON?** The lack visibility on the license usage. **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** its allowing us to writeback directly to table, with users not having access to the actual DB ### 5. Power ON makes it possible to scenario plan within the tool! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley C. | Senior Business Information Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Power ON?** - Ability to turn Power BI into excel - Ability to quickly add comments & notes to reports (important for management reviews) **What do you dislike about Power ON?** - Requires SQL knowledge to set up - Can be confusing & documentation is super hefty so it takes a while to get used to it **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking complex models that exist in Power BI and allowing users to interact/scenario plan. Adding comments to performance scorecards which is a priority for leadership. ### 6. Power ON is our Go To platform for Power BI data entry **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Power ON?** Simplicity of Power XL interface - users know how to use it since they are familiar with Excel Flexibility to use it in a number of scenarios, not just financial planning Ability to customize the Power XL features Very simple for straightforward scenarios **What do you dislike about Power ON?** Can be a little complex to configure for complicated scenarios. More custom dev required (e.g., SQL Triggers) for these scenarios. No ability to track usage, licensing, etc. **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** Forecasting, Annual Planning and a host of other 1-off solutions. Forecasting and Annual Planning replaced a complex set of spreadsheets that was fragile, difficult to manage and provided little reporting. The new solution resolves all of these shortcomings. We also use it for any 1-off solution that requires users to bulk enter data that we want to capture in a SQL back end. It's easy to configure and users are familiar with the Power XL interface since it behaves almost exactly like Excel ### 7. Best tool to help me out in Budgeting and planning **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad A. | Client Account Manager (Strategic Accounts), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Power ON?** Easy to use and easily integrated with my power BI data sheet,which enhances my productivity. **What do you dislike about Power ON?** I think it should have more user friendly data interface and needs a upgrade there **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously i was facing transparency issues and scattered data,but this has enchanced my planning effeciency and so easy to take a decision by looking at the data report. ### 8. Myriad of options to tailor data with **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Power ON?** The familiar functionality of Excel in Power BI. **What do you dislike about Power ON?** Some bugs do still exist in the visuals. **What problems is Power ON solving and how is that benefiting you?** Budgeting and forecasting on a familiar platform (Excel) - [View Power ON pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/power-on/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+02%3A16%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=978e68fa-8e9d-4ae1-aaea-9348abdab0c1&secure%5Btoken%5D=c58734320406e97b82cccb34de23bb9e5b122f5b862c098e9151135640532649&format=llm_user) ## Power ON Integrations - [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-power-bi/reviews) ## Top Power ON Alternatives - [SolarWinds Database Observability](https://www.g2.com/products/database-observability/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (219 reviews) - [Azure Analysis Services](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-analysis-services/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (152 reviews) - [Azure Monitor](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-monitor/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (89 reviews)