Audyense
Skip to content
Microsoft Power BI logo

Microsoft Power BI

Verificado

Analítica y BI · powerbi.microsoft.com/

Visitar sitio web ↗
¿Es tu herramienta? Reclama esta ficha →

Resumen

Power BI is Microsoft's business analytics platform for connecting to data, modeling it, and building interactive reports and dashboards. It spans Power BI Desktop (Windows authoring), the Power BI service (cloud publishing, sharing, and collaboration), and Power BI Mobile apps, and is a core workload inside Microsoft Fabric. It connects to more than 100 data sources via Power Query and adds governance through row-level security, sensitivity labels, and Microsoft Purview integration.

El problema que resuelve Microsoft Power BI

Companies running on Microsoft 365 and Azure usually end up with reporting scattered across Excel workbooks emailed around, a legacy on-prem report server, and a separate visualization tool that has its own logins and its own data connections. Power BI solves that by putting modeling, dashboards, natural-language Q&A, and distribution on the same Microsoft Entra identity and the same governance layer as the rest of the tenant, with row-level security and sensitivity labels applied centrally. Data teams in Microsoft-heavy organizations hit this problem hardest, because every alternative means running a second identity, permission, and connector stack alongside the one they already operate.

Contexto para decidir

Usa estos puntos para comprobar si el producto encaja con tu operación, no solo con la lista de funciones.

  • Precio de entrada publicado: Free. Confirma límites de usuarios, uso y funciones por plan.
  • Despliegue: cloud, on_premise, hybrid. Comprueba requisitos de seguridad, residencia de datos y acceso para todos los equipos que lo utilizarán.
  • Integraciones verificadas: Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks. Valida el sentido de sincronización y los límites del plan elegido.
  • La ficha se comprobó por última vez el 31/7/2026; los precios y las funciones pueden cambiar.

Cómo evaluar Microsoft Power BI

Una ficha ayuda a crear una lista corta; una prueba con el flujo real del equipo decide si la herramienta encaja. Usa esta lectura junto con los datos estructurados y confirma cualquier cambio con el proveedor.

Encaje de flujo

El registro la considera especialmente adecuada para Microsoft 365 and Azure shops that want BI running on the identity, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint stack they already pay for., Enterprises that need governed self-service BI at scale — row-level security, sensitivity labels, audit logs, and Microsoft Purview integration., Teams that need broad connector coverage across cloud and on-premises sources without buying a separate data-prep tool, using Power Query and the on-premises data gateway.. Comprueba que ese contexto coincide con el volumen, los roles y los procesos que debe soportar tu equipo.

Preguntas del piloto

  • ¿Puede Microsoft Power BI completar el flujo crítico sin trabajo manual fuera de la herramienta?
  • ¿Las conexiones registradas (Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Azure SQL Database) cubren el sentido de sincronización, los permisos y el volumen que necesitamos?
  • ¿Qué límites de usuarios, uso, almacenamiento, soporte o seguridad aparecen después del precio inicial?

Evidencia y vigencia

Esta ficha se comprobó el 31/7/2026. La fecha indica cuándo se revisó el registro, no una garantía de que el proveedor no haya cambiado sus condiciones después.

Ideal para

  • Microsoft 365 and Azure shops that want BI running on the identity, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint stack they already pay for.
  • Enterprises that need governed self-service BI at scale — row-level security, sensitivity labels, audit logs, and Microsoft Purview integration.
  • Teams that need broad connector coverage across cloud and on-premises sources without buying a separate data-prep tool, using Power Query and the on-premises data gateway.

No encaja si

  • Mac- or Linux-first analytics teams — full report authoring and data modeling requires Power BI Desktop, which is a Windows-only application.
  • Organizations standardized on the Google stack (BigQuery + Looker/LookML), where the Microsoft identity, Office, and Azure integration advantages do not apply.

Por qué está listada

  • One of the most heavily reviewed BI platforms in the category, with 1,800+ Capterra reviews, ~1,500 G2 reviews, and ~2,100 TrustRadius ratings.
  • Has a genuine free tier plus the lowest entry paid price among enterprise BI platforms at $14/user/month for Power BI Pro.
  • Delivered as cloud SaaS on Azure with Power BI explicitly named in Microsoft's SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and HIPAA BAA in-scope service lists.

Precios

Free

Free

A free Power BI account for building interactive reports on your own, with no credit card required.

  • Create rich, interactive reports with visual analytics
  • Power BI Desktop authoring at no cost
  • Personal workspace in the Power BI service
  • No credit card required to sign up
  • Upgrade required to share reports with others

Power BI Pro

$14 per user/month

The standard paid license for publishing, sharing, and collaborating on Power BI reports; billed annually.

  • Publish and share Power BI reports and dashboards
  • Collaborative workspaces and app distribution
  • Scheduled refresh (up to 8 per day)
  • Included with Microsoft 365 E5 and Office 365 E5
  • Row-level security and sensitivity labels

Power BI Premium Per User

$24 per user/month

Adds enterprise-scale modeling and refresh capacity on top of everything in Pro; billed annually.

  • Everything in Power BI Pro
  • Larger model sizes (up to 100 GB)
  • More frequent refreshes (48 per day vs. 8)
  • Enterprise-scale analytics features
  • Paginated reports and advanced AI capabilities

Power BI Embedded / Fabric capacity

Custom pricing

Capacity-based licensing for embedding Power BI in your own applications or running Fabric workloads; contact sales.

  • White-label and embed Power BI reports in your own app
  • Automate monitoring, management, and deployment
  • Capacity reservation (annual) or pay-as-you-go
  • Dynamic scaling and the ability to pause capacity
  • Azure Consumption Commitment eligible

Funciones

Dashboards & visualizationReal-time dashboards and streaming tiles in the Power BI service, plus 30+ built-in visuals and a custom visuals marketplace.
Self-service BIPower BI Desktop provides drag-and-drop report building with Power Query Editor for data prep and DAX for modeling.
Natural language queryQ&A natural-language querying is listed by Microsoft as a Power BI-specific capability.
Semantic layer / data modelingShared semantic models with relationships, DAX measures, composite models, and row-level security reused across reports.
Embedded analyticsPower BI Embedded plus REST embed-token APIs; priced separately as capacity, not included in per-user plans.
AI featuresCopilot AI assistant for insights and report creation is listed for both Power BI and Fabric, alongside Q&A.
Data governance & lineageRow-level security, sensitivity labels, audit logs, usage metrics, and Microsoft Purview Information Protection and DLP integration.
Public APIDocumented Power BI REST API covering datasets, reports, dashboards, dataflows, gateways, pipelines, embed tokens, and admin.
Alerts & notificationsDashboard data alerts and email subscriptions; Data Activator adds real-time alerting and automation. Some distribution scenarios require capacity licensing.
Mobile appPower BI Mobile apps for phones and tablets with reports optimized for mobile layouts.

Integraciones

Microsoft ExcelSharePointMicrosoft TeamsAzure SQL DatabaseAzure Synapse AnalyticsAzure DatabricksSalesforceGoogle BigQueryGoogle AnalyticsGoogle SheetsAmazon RedshiftAmazon AthenaDynamics 365 Business CentralMicrosoft DataverseMySQLOracle DatabaseMongoDB AtlasAdobe AnalyticsGitHubMicrosoft Exchange Online

Seguridad y cumplimiento

SOC 1 Type IISOC 2 Type IIISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 27018HIPAA (BAA)HITRUST CSFGDPR

Pros y contras

Pros

  • Deepest integration of any BI tool with the Microsoft stack — Excel, Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Azure — which is the single most cited reason Microsoft-centric orgs pick it.
  • Very broad connector library (100+ data sources through Power Query), noticeably wider than competitors, with front-end visualization depth called out as an advantage over Looker.
  • Strong, flexible visualization and dashboarding layer with a large custom-visuals marketplace, rated ~96% positive on Capterra for interactive/customizable dashboards.
  • Market dominance translates into a large talent pool and abundant training, and it is the common migration target from Qlik, BusinessObjects, and MicroStrategy.

Contras

  • Performance degrades on large or complex semantic models — the most common complaint on Capterra (~76% negative on 'resource-intensive with large datasets'), and echoed in community threads about slow DAX and rendering.
  • Licensing is genuinely confusing: Pro vs. Premium Per User vs. Fabric capacity, and capabilities like external-email subscriptions and data-driven distribution get gated behind capacity SKUs, which regularly produces mis-sized purchases.
  • Report-authoring UX has rough edges practitioners raise repeatedly — formatting menus that differ per visual type, DAX errors that only surface after saving, and no simple duplicate-measure action; Capterra shows ~40% negative on navigation being complex or unintuitive.
  • Renaming measures or columns can break downstream visuals rather than resolving by a stable internal ID, which makes semantic-model refactoring risky.
  • Report authoring is Windows-only — Power BI Desktop has no macOS or Linux build.

Qué muestra el registro

4.6/5
1.9k reviews agregadasÚltima comprobación 2026-07-31
Capterra ↗G2 ↗TrustRadius ↗

Reviewers across the major B2B platforms rate Power BI highly for its dashboarding, visualization breadth, and fit inside a Microsoft environment, while consistently flagging performance on large models and a confusing licensing structure.

Resumen y puntuación agregados de plataformas públicas de reseñas. Enlazamos a las reseñas originales en lugar de reproducirlas — lee la fuente antes de decidir.

Reseñas de usuarios

Escritas por cuentas de Audyense · moderadas antes de publicarse

Todavía no hay reseñas de usuarios.

¿Has usado Microsoft Power BI? Sé el primero en contarles a otros compradores qué funcionó de verdad.