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What is Power BI?
Industry Specialties: Serves all industries.
Power BI Pricing
Based on our most recent analysis, Power BI pricing and cost details are described here:
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- Starting From
- Still gathering data
- Pricing Model
- Monthly
- Free Trial
Product Information and Resellers
Power BI Benefits and Insights
Key differentiators & advantages of Power BI
- Live 360-Degree View of Data: Stay in the loop about crucial business insights. Power BI's dashboards update in real time from all data sources.
- Visualize Data Trends: Create intuitive visualizations to present data after it is parsed, structured and analyzed. This can be in the form of graphs, charts, maps or other graphic depictions that make interpreting data quicker, easier and more impactful.
- Make Data-Driven Decisions: Put the data visualizations to work — analyze not only what happened, but also why, how and where. Use data to improve business processes and customer interactions, adjust business plans and make forecasts.
- Ease of Use: Encourages user adoption towards a data driven culture. Power BI simplifies self-service BI with built-in features similar to Excel and other Microsoft technologies — feel right at home with functionalities like drag-and-drop design, resizing and copy-and-paste.
- Collaborate Across Organization: Share reports and collaborate on decisions quickly; save time otherwise spent on inefficient meetings or jumping from one platform to another. Integrates seamlessly with many commonly used business tools to promote teamwork throughout departments.
- On-the-Go Access: Access visual analytics on the go with Power BI. Stay connected to and share insights from any device, with mobile-optimized reports and a mobile app.
- Secure Insights: As one of the largest, most well-known names in the software industry, Microsoft backs up their reputation with security and protection for businesses’ sensitive information in Power BI. Visit the Trust Center to learn more about exactly how all of Microsoft’s solutions — including Power BI — meet industry security standards and ensure regulatory compliance. Keeps information secure from the original data source all the way up through the report sharing and collaboration features.
- Free Version: Power BI goes beyond a free trial with a perpetually free Desktop version, suitable for creating reports and data visualizations on an individual basis.
- Scalability and Affordability: Power BI can scale from the individual to the enterprise level as a whole, while only paying for exactly what’s necessary — choose the right option from versions varying in capabilities and pricing.
Industry Expertise
Power BI Reviews
Average customer reviews & user sentiment summary for Power BI:
Synopsis of User Ratings and Reviews
Based on an aggregate of Power BI reviews taken from the sources above, the following pros & cons have been curated by a SelectHub Market Analyst.
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Key Features
- Data Source Connectivity: Draw data from hundreds of supported sources both on-premises and cloud-based, including web APIs, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Excel, Google Analytics, JSON and text/CSV files, Oracle, SQL and more.
- Data Preparation: A self-service Power Query process ingests, transforms, integrates and enriches data while preparing it for analysis in Power BI. Organize unstructured data into interpretable data sets to highlight trends. Approach analysis from different angles with intuitive filters and data manipulation features.
- Data Visualization: Power BI creates a range of visualizations from data that conceptualize trends and patterns. These can be a range of different graphics including bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, scattergrams, maps, etc. Power BI transforms abstract concepts and hard numbers into easy-to-interpret charts.
- Pre-Built or Custom Dashboards/Reports: Choose from a range of pre-built templates optimized for most industries to generate visualizations of KPIs in seconds. Or, if out-of-the-box reports don’t cut it, design customized data stories with a drag-and-drop canvas and hundreds of interactive visualization options in Power BI.
- Natural Language Processing: Explore data through conversational language with the built-in Q&A tool; find meaningful answers to data-related questions.
- Secure Data Governance: Prevent data loss with role-specific data protection and row-level security. Safeguards data so that Power BI meets industry-level compliance standards and certifications. Allows administrators to centralize data governance, security and management across the organization.
- Collaboration: Power BI fosters collaboration through a data-driven culture of business intelligence with features like team commenting, alerts and content subscriptions. Publish and share permissions-adjustable reports and dashboards, both internally and externally.
- Mobile Compatibility: All reports in Power BI are optimized for mobile and can be published to the cloud or on-premises, or embedded into existing apps or websites. Receive personal data alerts, quickly view and share insights and stay in the know from any mobile device on Android or iOS, or any PC or tablet or phone with access to the Windows Store.
- Embedded Analytics: Brand and customize custom analytics offerings for end-users with white label capabilities and a plethora of visualization options. Develop and test custom modules to embed Power BI's analytics capabilities into other applications.
- Seamless Integration: Power BI seamlessly integrates with everything in the Microsoft Office 365 Suite, as well as a range of other software and BI solutions. This includes third-party data sources like Spark, Google Analytics and more.
- On-Premises or Cloud Server: As part of the Premium plan, Power BI's Report Server provides a hybrid, comprehensive solution by building a BI environment on-premises, keeping it safe behind the intranet firewall. Allows the flexibility to move the server to the cloud as per requirements, protecting the business’ investment and data for the future.
Limitations
- No direct integration available for services like Vend POS or Shopify
- Graphical visualization is fairly limited as compared to other BI tools
- Doesn’t support SQL queries
- Comparatively difficult to work with huge data sets on Power BI
- Doesn’t let users build scheduled reports, personalized user views, personalized notifications, personalized security views or customizable reports
Suite Support
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Pricing Details
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Power BI Desktop Author |
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Power BI Pro Share and Collaborate |
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Power BI Premium For large deployments |
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Power BI pro licenses need to be purchased for Power BI premium subscription for content authoring |
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Minimum annual commitment is required for purchase |
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Value-Added Benefits
How WIA Systems adds value to Power BI
- Flexible Deployment: WIA Business Systems enables flexible on-premise and in-cloud deployment, in addition to hybrid implementations, leveraging Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Tailored Implementation: Customize the tool to business size and needs — from self-service BI to enterprise-level functionality — with dedicated technical assistance, saving company time.
- Regular Updates: Get regular updates and patches for priority defects. WIA Business Systems maintains thorough records of all customizations, updates and patches that they provide.
- Issue Resolution: The reseller maintains a replica of the live environment — with matching test data — to replicate and troubleshoot issues for faster resolution.