Microsoft Power BI Embedded Pros and Cons

Share your dashboard without the frills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Requires IT for deployment. Should be available to an analyst with permission. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great option for using reports are a representation to clients. It allow to integrate your report with your companies applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can just represent but feature like powerbi web services are not as easily available.

Also the performance is highly affected moving from web Services to embedded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Stream Analytics familiar SQL based coding language for software development - enables faster development , ability to correlate between various data stream enables diverse data connectors. Azure stream analytics is also useful in video content as well and its integration with microservices is added bonus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex event processing is problematic at times , like telemetry-event to the Event Hub, serializing it as JSON takes more time expected. Documentation can be improved to provide boilerplate codes for common tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That if you go to the Microsoft site there are modules and classes with a lot of helpful information on how to get started. I was able to figure out what I was doing incorrectly and get even more tips and tricks that I didn't know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That some of the modules were long and I felt like I had to listen to all of them before advancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Stream Analytics captures real-time data for real-time analysis, visualization, and decision making. Perhaps the best feature of Azure Stream Analytics is that it has the same sort of feel as other Microsoft products, which integrates nicely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Stream Analytics sells itself as a near real-time analytics engine, but the real-time can have some significant lag at certain times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure stream analytics uses simple SQL language for extremely fast parallel processing. You're able to query in real time while also querying streams of historical values and models. It's extremely helpful in analyzing data for faster decision making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest downfall of this software is that it’s not widely used as an analytics application, therefore lacks the support needed to integrate within a company. It is a bit complicated and makes it easily confusing to the end user if you have no prior experience with the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Perhaps the thing I like best about Azure Stream Analytics is that it functions well with the other Microsoft products. The modeling is also very easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft makes incredibly easy to construct, user-friendly products. My downside with that is that Azure Stream Analytics seems to operate with some latency that's noticable sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is great place to start your analytics, it build upon the strong analytical capabilities of Microsoft, and is exhibited in its vast capabilities. This is made for scholars and data scientists and can handle huge data sets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product is not built in mind considering the average users and can be little tricky for understanding the use. The user friendliness should be worked upon by Microsoft. Also they need to provide academic licenses for the product for use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our company has just started using this so I'm not sure which features are best but there is an ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially I think we weren't too pleased about the costs but I feel in time it will show its worth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The diferrent ways to put the reports in intranets, SharePoint and anyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Price of the service. In the web of Microsoft have a Little examples and you need more experience to improve with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One key highlight of Stream is the ability to change queries quickly. Streaming Analytics gave our company substantial visibility into what customers are buying and not buying. Thus we were able to retain existing customers. Also, it allowed the company to increase up-selling and cross-selling strategies of our current and new products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The data integration leaves much to be desired and is one reason I find it difficult. Another area is lack of a support or knowledge base. Unless you work with stream analytics on a regular basis, you are clueless to its purpose. Not many companies are using it today because there is a limited understanding of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, User interface, support center Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially takes time to get a hand of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The parallel processing is excellent. The query is also easy to make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation for this is really bad in the Microsoft portal. Sometimes, the stream analytics crashes due to low streaming units and it is hard to detect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Where is the Frontend? Need an easier and more fundamental method of access. Drill-down. Don't re-invent the wheel or English. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most of it. Not simple like everyone else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Users can create useful dashboards, it integrates well in the Office 365 workspace, and it's easy to create useful visuals for business needs. The ability to collaborate with colleagues gives this product the can of agility we have come to expect in the cloud age. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data management can be a little clunky at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is wonderful - it allows you to have the wondering dynamic and custom data visuals without having to have your customers know about power bi. You can customer who can and cant see the data with the settings of IT. The master account controls a lot of the use within the apps. You can also add it easy and take it off easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You have to have capacity to run the reports. You have to take time to build and make sure that its working within the apps / reports that you have your visuals set in. You also have to write code to embed it, but they do provide you with code if you need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the way it provides som many visualizations to the data and makes reports easy to express and understand the complexed huge data amount. I almost tried all visualizations. on the top of that, you can install some other extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

no doubt that, MS Power BI is a really good tool but still compare to Tableau it still does not have some other features as well. I guess I would be happier if it was easier to edit data files. I mean, contrary to Excel, in which we can edit right on time any cell, in a sheet, on Power BI you have to you the console/coding lines or specific commands to edit the data in each cell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Power BI helps you merging data from multiple sources to build a data model and to visualize data on top of those models. There are enough tutorials out there for free to make you master of Power BI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since last some time Microsoft has changed pricing and there were some features available in free version which are currently not present. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use in making a power BI dashboard

Create and edit on the fly with easy drag and drop mechanism

Custom BI visual integration by simple selection from UI library

Integration with R studio for advanced analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of proper customization in the current visuals.

Difficulty in implementing DAX for end users.

IT users also find difficulty in customizing some visuals for end users

Inbuilt data model preparation is not advanced as some other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interactive visualizations make analytics fun and interesting. Has been a great tool for the team here. Our collaboration and meetings with the dev team have gotten more integrated and smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit intimidating at first and takes a bit of a time to learn. Configuration can be a bit tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extend the current embedding is easy. Working on sample codes makes it easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

complicated and can easily get lost on the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Power BI is exceptionally easy to learn and offers all the standard features of Tableau. Embedded allows you to weave them seamlessly into other pieces of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Power BI Embedded has few weaknesses, and most belong to Power BI itself, like its lack of more advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure stream was developer friendly from my perspective and it helped me streamline my analytics. It just makes picking up anomalies easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

had trouble finding the device IDs. Some samples have expensive daily running fees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great software for crating dashboard using large databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficult to learn the basic without proper training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft BI has the core functions but is overall a basic tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool has limitations since it is mainly core functions, nothing super specific Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.