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Microsoft Power BI Features

What are the features of Microsoft Power BI?

Reports

  • Reports Interface
  • Steps to Answer
  • Graphs and Charts
  • Score Cards
  • Dashboards

Self Service

  • Calculated Fields
  • Data Column Filtering
  • Data Discovery
  • Search
  • Collaboration / Workflow
  • Automodeling

Advanced Analytics

  • Predictive Analytics
  • Data Visualization
  • Big Data Services

Building Reports

  • Data Transformation

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Reports

Reports Interface

Based on 834 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Reports interface for standard and self-service reports is intuitive and easy to use.
89%
(Based on 834 reviews)

Steps to Answer

Based on 776 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Requires a minimal number of steps/clicks to answer business question.
84%
(Based on 776 reviews)

Graphs and Charts

Based on 837 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Offers a variety of attractive graph and chart formats.
91%
(Based on 837 reviews)

Score Cards

Based on 492 Microsoft Power BI reviews. Score cards visually track KPI's.
89%
(Based on 492 reviews)

Dashboards

Based on 822 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides business users an interface to easily design, refine and collaborate on their dashboards
91%
(Based on 822 reviews)

Self Service

Calculated Fields

As reported in 696 Microsoft Power BI reviews. Using formulas based on existing data elements, users can create and calculate new field values.
86%
(Based on 696 reviews)

Data Column Filtering

Business users have the ability to filter data in a report based on predefined or automodeled parameters. 704 reviewers of Microsoft Power BI have provided feedback on this feature.
89%
(Based on 704 reviews)

Data Discovery

Based on 785 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Users can drill down and explore data to discover new insights.
86%
(Based on 785 reviews)

Search

As reported in 672 Microsoft Power BI reviews. Ability to search global data set to find and discover data.
84%
(Based on 672 reviews)

Collaboration / Workflow

Based on 760 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ability for users to share data and reports they have built within the BI tool and outside the tool through other collaboration platforms.
84%
(Based on 760 reviews)

Automodeling

Based on 698 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Tool automatically suggests data types, schemas and hierarchies.
82%
(Based on 698 reviews)

Advanced Analytics

Predictive Analytics

Based on 557 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Analyze current and historical trends to make predictions about future events.
83%
(Based on 557 reviews)

Data Visualization

Based on 823 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Communicate complex information clearly and effectively through advanced graphical techniques.
92%
(Based on 823 reviews)

Big Data Services

Based on 557 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ability to handle large, complex, and/or siloed data sets.
84%
(Based on 557 reviews)

Building Reports

Data Transformation

Based on 495 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Converts data formats of source data into the format required for the reporting system without mistakes.
88%
(Based on 495 reviews)

Data Modeling

Based on 485 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ability to (re)structure data in a manner that allows extracting insights fast and accurate.
88%
(Based on 485 reviews)

WYSIWYG Report Design

Based on 420 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides business users an interface to easily design and refine their dashboards and reports. (What You See Is What You Get)
85%
(Based on 420 reviews)

Integration APIs

Based on 416 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.
85%
(Based on 416 reviews)

Data Preparation

Connectors

Based on 460 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ability to connect the analytics platform with a wide range of connector options for common data sources, including popular enterprise applications.
89%
(Based on 460 reviews)

Data Governance

Based on 452 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Connects to enterprise data governance software, or provides integrated data governance features to avoid misuse of data
88%
(Based on 452 reviews)

Data Modeling and Blending

Data Querying

Based on 474 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Using formulas based on existing data elements, users can create and calculate new field values
89%
(Based on 474 reviews)

Data Filtering

Based on 486 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Business users have the ability to filter data in a report based on predefined or automodeled parameters.
91%
(Based on 486 reviews)

Data Blending

Based on 470 Microsoft Power BI reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows the user to combine data from multiple sources into a functioning dataset.
87%
(Based on 470 reviews)

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