Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence platform that helps you visualize data and infuse insights into your existing Microsoft 365 apps. Try it for free.
Microsoft Power BI is commercial business intelligence software made by Microsoft. It was first released in 2011. Its English Wikipedia article has about 2.5k readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Since
- 2011
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 2.5k a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Microsoft's BI tool for modelling data, building reports and dashboards, and sharing them through Microsoft 365 and Fabric.
- Adopt it when
- An organisation on Microsoft 365 wants low-cost BI that Excel users can pick up.
- Watch out
- The desktop authoring tool is Windows-only, and capacity licensing through Fabric can get confusing.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Desktop app and cloud service
- Built with
- DAX and Power Query
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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