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91 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Microsoft Power BI Reviews
Pierre R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
For creating reports and dashboards.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
A standout feature of Power BI is its excellent integration with other Microsoft products, such as Teams, Excel, and Azure. It also facilitates competition thanks to its licensing strategy. It also offers sophisticated and customizable visualizations through its marketplace.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Programming's capacity to automate data changes appeals to me. Its cutting-edge graphics facilitate prompt decision-making. Additionally, the vibrant community facilitates learning and problem-solving.
What do you dislike most about this product?
For users who are not familiar with data analysis, the learning curve may be quite high. Access is limited because some features are exclusive to the Pro or Premium versions. Additionally, dashboards that have already been published may be impacted by update bugs.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For dashboards with large amounts of data, I recommend using Microsoft Power BI; it improves performance. It increases the number of free connectors available without relying on premium ones. It increases narrative potential by including more sophisticated interactivity.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Jyoti Prasad C.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
PowerBI - Dashboard Tool Review
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The dashboard is exceptionally informative and easy to create. It is very easy to create data user stories and add to your presentation.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Loved the dashboard. There might be other software which do the same, but I believe not this easy and detailed as how PowerBI does. It is simply effortless
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing if you ask me as my scope was very requirement specific and it did its job perfectly
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are a business analyst using data to manage the stories and understand the trends...go for powerBI
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Sara H.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2025
Mastering data analytics
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The easy to use design lets people who are not tech expert make detailed reports and ashboards, So teams can work effciently without needing any extra skils.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It works really well with Excel and other Microsoft tools, So I do not wast time moving or fixing data, It all just connects easily.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be a bit tricky to safely share reports with people who are not part of your company.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use Power BI with Excel and other Microsoft tools to get efficent and data driven results which will definitly help your company to increase thier sales.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy