Microsoft Fabric (Power BI)

What is Microsoft Fabric (Power BI)?

Cloud-based and business user-oriented BI solution for creating dashboards, analyses and reports. Paginated reports available for print-oriented reporting. Also part of Microsoft Fabric.

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Number of reviews: 183

Customer Satisfaction

6.0

★★★★★★★★★★ 6.0/10

User Experience

5.3

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.3/10

Functionality

6.1

★★★★★★★★★★ 6.1/10

Business Value

5.5

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.5/10

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Provider and product description

Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, was founded in 1975 and has become a household name primarily due to its Windows operating system and Office suite. With its offerings, Microsoft wants to contribute to a modern workspace for its customers, whether they are private individuals or large enterprises. The vendor has a broad enterprise offering, ranging from cloud (Azure) to database to its ERP products.

Microsoft was among the first vendors to focus on providing cloud-based solutions for analytics, a path later followed by several competitors. Azure is used by numerous companies as a cloud computing platform and for storing substantial amounts of data, putting Microsoft in a good position to offer integrated analytics front ends. Indeed, the vendor has not only integrated Power BI, its core BI & analytics platform, with many Azure Services and Microsoft products but has also included it in various product packages. One of the most recent is Microsoft Fabric, designed as an integrated end-to-end data and analytics platform delivered as software as a service (SaaS). The package contains several Azure services such as Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory and many more. The core value proposition and advantage for customers is that the already stitched together services facilitate the building up of a SaaS environment consisting of data and analytics services. One of the additional benefits is the obligatory Data Lake ‘OneLake’, which is automatically connected with all other Fabric services and can be used by customers without extra configuration.

Power BI itself is a cloud-based analytics product consisting of Power BI Desktop (a full client for data preparation, dashboards and analysis) and Power BI Service (a web application for content publishing and sharing). It is an interactive tool for data visualization geared at enabling business users to analyze data and share insights, predominantly via dashboards.

Data visualization in Power BI delivers rich visualizations but is limited in flexibility by its dashboard-oriented approach. NLQ makes it easy for users to retrieve relevant visualizations. Guided analytics is mostly covered by ‘Quick Insights’, a feature that automatically analyzes data sets for patterns and outliers and provides the user with suggestions about relevant findings. The ‘Insight’ feature can be used to receive information about interesting patterns in the data a specific visualization is based on. For advanced requirements, AutoML features are integrated into Power BI dataflows. Recently, Microsoft introduced its AI-based service Copilot for Power BI. The product is designed to support dashboard and visual creation, and the writing of narratives and DAX queries.

Microsoft has also incorporated formatted reporting functionality from its on-premises product set Reporting Services as Paginated Reports into Power BI to provide a broader feature set and integrate analytics capabilities. Power BI Report Server delivers a subset of Power BI features to on-premises customers, mostly to facilitate their migration to the cloud.

Power BI content can also be integrated into Microsoft PowerPoint to provide better data storytelling capabilities as well as to increase the use of insights gained in Power BI for a larger number of users.

Strengths and challenges of Microsoft Fabric (Power BI)

BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.

Strengths

Power BI, the business-user-oriented dashboard and self-service analytics solution, is attractively priced, which makes it easy for organizations and individual users to get started with it.
Dashboards are easy to build for business users and can either display governed data or leverage additional data through powerful data preparation.
‘Quick Insights’ and NLQ guide users when exploring new data sets with auto insights while data preparation offers ML-based productivity features too. The AI-based assistant Copilot facilitates the creation of dashboards and DAX expressions to speed up the development of content.
Governance, shared data access and assets for Enterprise BI needs through tight integration with Azure Services and offerings such as Microsoft Fabric.

Challenges

Formatted (paginated) reports enhance the reach of Power BI, but building these reports is still a developer’s task rather than one for typical business users.
Different clients with varying functionality in place: Besides the two possible clients for creating paginated reports, Power BI consists of a desktop and a web client.
Power BI and additional services are available on the Azure infrastructure only.

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The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.

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Role

CEO

Number of employees

Less than 100

Industry

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Ease of use yet very powerful.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Additional license fees when using CoPilot capabilities.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Be sure you start your journey with enough knowledge of data-modelling.

How would you sum up your experience?

Excellent tool, very satisfied with it.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Services

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

It is an easy tool for final users. Good visualization tool.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Comparing with Qlik product, PowerBI has not an ETL capability. We need an extra component to extract and transform data.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It is a good visualization tool, but the process should be done before entering in Power BI.

How would you sum up your experience?

A good visualization tool.

Role

Analyst

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Public sector

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

La puissance, la facilité d'utilisation et la stabilité.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Pour l'instant, je n'ai rien qui me déplait.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Prévoir, dépendant de l'entreprise, 6 à 9 mois d'analyse, afin de sélectionner la bonne solution.

How would you sum up your experience?

Excellente opinion.

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Utilities

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Its simple! Is integrated to a lot of other tools familiar in business departments.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Difficult to understand the functionally (f.ex. Embedded BI).

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Make sure your team has time to build knowledge on the tool first (before business).

How would you sum up your experience?

Very good.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibility and ease of use.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Metadata, governance and maintenance of complex data transformations.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Plan for the implementation, and include security model and governance into the report building process.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great tool, extreme levels of flexibility, but lacks detailed guidance from the vendor for successful implementation.

Role

Finance Decision Support Manager

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Process industry

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Connecter à l'ensemble des solutions Microsoft (Power Apps, Copilot)

What do you like least/what could be improved?

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Dans ma société, Power BI desktop peut être téléchargé par tous les employés (accès libre) et tous les employés peuvent créer leur propre rapport Power BI ce qui conduit à une profusion de rapports. L'adoption a été massive et à permis au employés de se former / s'autoformer. en négative, il a été difficile de mettre après coup une structure de gouvernance des rapports car n'importe qui peut créer un rapport Power BI. Aujourd'hui Power BI est vu comme un complément de la suite Office. en accès libre.

How would you sum up your experience?

Très bonne.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Process industry

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Data source connectivity and autologging of the data preparation process is fantastic.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Certain industrial-wide standard visualizations.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Though it is a No/Low Code application, real world requirements will need a decent amount of coding knowledge and ML know-how.

How would you sum up your experience?

Easy to use, hard to master.

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Media/Publishing

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 06/2024

What do you like best?

Einfachheit und Übersichtlichkeit, Schnittstellen und leichte Integration mit anderen Tools.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Export und automatischer Versand von Berichten.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Es macht Sinn, am Anfang Sinn externe Partner für Onboarding und Schulungen zu beauftragen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Durchweg positiv.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

A quick start. You'll be able to get insights quickly with an uncomplicated setup, no required training, and included dashboards for services such as Salesforce, Google Analytics, and Microsoft Dynamics.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Unintuitive user interface.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Know the end users and their requirements well.

How would you sum up your experience?

Microsoft Power BI is a reliable BI solution, especially if you are the right user for this software.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Process industry

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Jeder kann damit starten, Zusammenarbeit, Microsoft 365 Integration.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Am Dienstleister-Markt für Power BI Berater und Entwickler tummeln sich viele Anbieter mit mangelhaften Kenntnissen - anspruchsvollere und evtl. unabhängige Zertifizierungen könnten das Problem lösen.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Teure Berater, die ihr Geld wert sind, lohnen sich. Billige Berater führen nicht zu billigen Projekten.

How would you sum up your experience?

Je mehr wir dazu lernen, desto besser können wir Power BI nutzen. Die Flexibilität ist großartig und Anforderungen scheitern in der Regel nicht an den Möglichkeiten, sondern höchstens an den Kenntnissen. Power BI ist keine Lösung für ein BI-System, das man einmal hinstellt und dann ist das Projekt abgeschlossen. Es ist für Unternehmen, die sich und ihre Datenplattform ständig weiterentwickeln wollen. Es ist ganz klar kein Tool für den Planungsprozess, mit Eingaben, zumindest nicht ohne Erweiterungen.

Role

Employee of a cross-departmental BI/analytics team

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Microsoft steckt viel Energie in die Weiterentwicklung.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Wenn die Einführung durch das Unternehmen selbst erfolgen soll: ein solides Wissensfundament schaffen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Hervorragend.

Role

CEO

Number of employees

Less than 100

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Vielseitigkeit der Einsatzmöglichkeiten.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Mangelender Support. Mehrsprachigkeit.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Unterschätzen Sie den Ausbildungsbedarf (DAX, Power Query, …) nicht.

How would you sum up your experience?

Umfangreiche, zweckmässige BI-Lösung.

Role

Data team lead

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Media/Publishing

Source

Invited by the vendor, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Simple UI for data consumers.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Data modelling is limited. Abilities for enterpise level data modeling are weak. Renaming fields in meta model creates loads of problems.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Check what your needs are. More complex data modeling needs lots of work to be done.

How would you sum up your experience?

Report user input has been good.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from business department

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

The business users seem to like it much better than our prior tool and they seem to find it easier to create things for themselves. I also like the overall strategy (power platform). I think the tool is very empowering for an end user.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

I don't feel it is easy to troubleshoot your report/dashboard results when users ask about why figures are what they are. It isn't easy to tell which field you should pull in when you are presented with a mixed bag of similar table and measure names, but this is not really the fault of the tool.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Have some governance over the data models made available to the enterprise, so business users will find it less intimidating/easier to understand which things to pull into their dashboard. Document all the formulas or know how to look at them with ease. Know the various licensing options (users who build dashboards and publish them for others vs. those who just consume pre-built content).

How would you sum up your experience?

I personally still find it a bit cryptic in terms of knowing how a measure or dimension pulled onto your report will afect your result set. It seems to always use inner joins for everything and that may unwittingly to a business user cause certain things to fall out of their result. This is all in the data model design of course.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Userfreundlichkeit, speziell Dax.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Rückschreibemöglichkeit in die Datenbank.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Unbedingt Governance implementieren bevor man das Tool in Masse verteilt.

How would you sum up your experience?

Tolles Tool, allerdings braucht es Spielregeln. Besonders in einem stark regulierten Umfeld (Finanzbereich).

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Good simple interface. Easy to use. Good integration. Cloud fabric platform stable and reliable. Good support.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Visual options limited and not very configurable.Dataflow performance is poor. Lack of version control.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Easy to use tool, won't have many complaints from the business.

How would you sum up your experience?

Unless Microsoft continues to invest and expand functionality then Power BI will soon become outdated and will be overtaken and replaced by better tools.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from business department

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Education

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Integrated with Office 365 making it easy to deploy and for staff to access and consume content.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Continual development of Power BI can impact developer experience as things can change alot. Also some annoying bugs that you would think would be simple to fix are still around.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

If you have Office 365 then it's a good tool to deploy as it integrates easily with the architecture and cost will probably be low.

How would you sum up your experience?

Very good BI tool that enables us to reach large audience with ease.

Role

Employee of a cross-departmental BI/analytics team

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Integration with various data sources: Whether your data is in an Excel spreadsheet, cloud-based databases, or on-premises hybrid data warehouses, Power BI can connect to and consolidate these disparate sources into coherent insights.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Although Power BI provides a variety of visualizations, some users feel that the customization options are not as extensive as they’d like. For instance, advanced formatting options for charts and tables could be improved. While Power BI’s data modeling capabilities are robust, users have encountered challenges when dealing with complex relationships between tables. Improving the user experience in this area would be valuable.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Power BI offers various licensing options, including free, Pro, and Premium. Evaluate your organization’s needs and choose the appropriate licensing model. For small teams, Power BI Pro might suffice, while larger enterprises may benefit from Power BI Premium.

How would you sum up your experience?

Positive.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Services

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Recht flexibel, Excel-like.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Von Anfang an Governance implementieren, um Wildwuchs und schlechte Datenmodellierung zu verhindern.

How would you sum up your experience?

Verführerisch.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Ease of use, flexibility, adaptibility and connectivity.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Lack of tools for effective governance, centralized monitoring and control.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Implement but with strict guidelines and a CoE setup so it does not grow to a level beyond effective control.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great self-service product, lacks enterprise capabilities.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Love to be able to tie so many various systems together in one location.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

I only wish the preview features would get loaded quicker.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

User training.

How would you sum up your experience?

Love it- gives regular finance users access to be able to transform data and create visualizations that we use to require IT for.

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Ease of Use.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Citizen developers can create inefficient queries.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Best practices training is key to an efficient data landscape.

How would you sum up your experience?

Easy to use with great functionality.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from business department

Number of employees

Less than 100

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Well established and extremly powerfull setup, which builds on year of BI expirience from the vendor. Almost everything seems to be posible with Power BI and Fabric.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

That we have to buy licences for every user. We are not big enough to purchase premium capacities.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Consider if the use case requires Power BI, or it can be fullfilled with just Looker Studio. If you choose to go with Power BI, then invest in building up your skills to get the most out of it.

How would you sum up your experience?

A power house within BI analytics and visualisation.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Healthcare

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Provides the features that we need to support the reporting and analytical needs of the business.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Power BI encounters various limitations in exporting high volumes of data.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

There is a bit of a learning curve if users are used to QlikView.

How would you sum up your experience?

Power BI is a solid BI tool overall.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

So many options and new features, it's an exciting product with many capabilities.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

So many options and new features, can be confusing and hard to keep up.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Keep it simple. Have a plan, define your requirements and data governance strategy.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's good.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibility of the data model.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Data lineage.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Document your data lineage, which measures are created, which columns are used etc.

How would you sum up your experience?

Generally recommended, but it's good to have an expert on the team that knows how to design a decent data model.

Role

Line of business employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Easy to start using.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Depending on the data sources size and queries complexity, it can become very slow to work on.pbix files.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Invest on training. Microsoft has good free online content.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's a great tool which brings transparency for departments at a company.

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Die raschen Innovationszyklen.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

IBCS-Notation immer noch ausstehend.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Schnelle Leuchtturmprojekte umsetzen, nicht zu lange mit den Datenquellen aufhalten. Geschwindigkeit geht vor Genauigkeit.

How would you sum up your experience?

Power BI ist auch nur so gut, wie die Qualität der Datenbasis und die Tool-Kompetenz der Anwender/Builder.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Healthcare

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Ease for creating dashboards and reports for management.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Strong use cases and sufficient data resources.

How would you sum up your experience?

Valuable tool for our user base.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Transportation and logistics

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Self Service.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Sehr komplex in der Anwendung.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Intensive Schulungen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Power BI kombiniert sehr gut die BI-Anforderungen mit der restlichen Microsoft Welt.

Role

Line of business employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Transportation and logistics

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Ease of use and development.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Limited customization compared to Tableau.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Would definitely recommend as a BI platform.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great product!

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Insurance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibilität im Einsatz und Vielfalt der Datenquellen.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Premium Lizenzfeatures.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Proof of Concept machen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Transportation and logistics

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Microsoft Oberfläche ist intuitiv für neue User. Community. Anwenderfreundlichkeit.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Restriktionen bei Direct Query. Snowflake Connector.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Governance!

How would you sum up your experience?

Erste Schritte sind einfach, ein sauberes Modell allerdings herausfordernd.

Role

Analyst

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Healthcare

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Its scalability, flexibility, low TCO.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Too many versions.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

How would you sum up your experience?

It is a good product.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Healthcare

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

The ease in designing dashboards that look great quickly.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

The developer cycle between PowerBI Online and PowerBI Desktop seems needlessly complicated at times.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Establish well-formed data models ahead of time to make it easier to build the reports you need.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's a really nice tool that makes it easy for people of different skill levels to develop reports. I like how it easily integrates with various data sources.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibilität / Einfachheit.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Kein Zurückschreiben / Erfassen von Daten durch den User. Keine Planungsmöglichkeiten.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Ordentlichen Kostenvergleich durchzuführen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Gut.

Role

CIO

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Healthcare

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

It's part of the Microsoft Office family of products.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Licensing is hard to understand.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Start slow and small and build up.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's a great product at a good price with really good capabilities.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Excellent tool and features to do analytics and user friendly options in creating dashboard / visualization. Helps to take important business decisions

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Learning curve is bit tough for the beginners.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Training plans, regular reviews of power BI reports, list down and clear understanding of data requirement to design the power BI implementations.

How would you sum up your experience?

It is a versatile tool for doing analytics and data visualization, easy integration. It should be a perfect choice of many other companies.

Role

Head of business department

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Connecting other data sources to bring into a dashboard.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Nothing to complain.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It is one of the useful and powerful tool to use for analytical purposes.

How would you sum up your experience?

Good tool to use compared to other available in the market.

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Utilities

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Für einfache Themen recht einfach verwendbar.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Für komplexere Themen, ist es teils einfacher gleich Python mit Streamlit oder R mit Shiny zu nutzen.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Schulungen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Ist ok für gewisse einfache Use Cases, bei denen die Daten laufend konsistent und strukturiert sind.

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Construction

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Die einfache Handhabung und die Verteilung an die Endanwender.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Kosten könnten geringer sein.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Key User außerhalb der IT sind nötig, um das Verhältnis zwischen Kosten/Nutzen optimal zu halten.

How would you sum up your experience?

Sehr gut. Stetige Weiterentwicklung durch Microsoft.

Role

Head of business department

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Ease of use.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Ecosystem with a lot of different services/features: complex to handle.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Clarify the use cases first.

How would you sum up your experience?

Good. Has the momentum.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Webaccess, Apps zur Nutzung.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Die User können sich von Salesforce & Excel kommend wenig damit anfreunden.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

How would you sum up your experience?

Hinsichtlich Kosten & Nutzen ist es für uns die perfekte Lösung.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from business department

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Nonprofit

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Super flexible, easy to use and learn, inexpensive, great variety of visualizations, quick insights from AI.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Would be great to have more pre-built measures, predictive analyses, and integration with statistical languages.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Find a great consultant to help with the build-out of all the data models and data integrations with all the source ERPs/databases. Develop a robust training plan that includes resources from both the broad Power BI user community and in-house training that focuses specifically on your organizations data models and business use cases.

How would you sum up your experience?

Excellent analytics tool that is serving our organization well.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Service conseil ingénieurie

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibilité de développé des nouveaux modèles de données.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Vendu comme un outils facile d'utilisation. Dois bien comprendre le modèle de donnée.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Mettre en place une bonne gouvernance de données.

How would you sum up your experience?

Excellent produit.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Services

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibility, ease to use and adapt to databases.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Time to processing.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It's very familiar and easy to use with Microsoft tools like SQL, Excel, etc.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's constantly innovating and increasing functionality now with Fabric.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Flexibilität und Einfachheit. Besonders hohes Potenzial, um es als Self Service Tool zu verwenden.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Ausweitung Microsoft Learn / andere Schulungsangebote für komplexere Funktionskombinationen (inkrementelle Aktualisierung, Joins, Prinzip des Foldings). Kombination von Datasets in Reports.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Bereits früh sollten Datasets so groß wie nötig, so klein wie möglich gehalten werden, um Anforderungen möglichst modular beantworten zu können.

How would you sum up your experience?

Wir haben Microsoft Power BI als sehr anwenderfreundliches Tool kennengelernt, ohne großen Einstiegshürden.

Survey Information

Number of reviews for Microsoft Fabric (Power BI)

183

Reviewed versions

100% Cloud Version

Peer groups in the survey

Large/Enterprise-Wide Implementations, Report & Dashboard Focus, International BI Giants

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