Why Power BI Doesn’t Actually Suck
Why Power BI Deserves a Second Look
In the world of data visualisation, Power BI often gets an undeserved bad reputation. But is the criticism really about the platform itself, or is it more about how it’s used? Let’s unpack why Power BI is often misunderstood—and why dismissing it based on a poorly designed dashboard is like blaming your iPhone for a bad app.
The Power BI Misunderstanding
If you’ve ever encountered a clunky, poorly designed Power BI dashboard at work, you might have been quick to write off the entire platform. But here’s the thing: Power BI is not the app; it’s the platform. Judging Power BI based on a bad dashboard is like writing off the iPhone ecosystem because of one poorly designed app—hardly fair, right?
The App Store hosts both exceptional apps like Spotify and Airbnb and some less-than-stellar ones. Power BI works in much the same way. When used effectively, it can deliver transformative insights. When misused, it leads to frustration. The difference lies in how the tool is implemented and leveraged.
One reason for this misunderstanding is that the best apps aren’t typically designed for internal business use—they’re created for millions of users, requiring meticulous attention to detail and user experience. Imagine applying this approach to the Power BI app marketplace: the results could be extraordinary.
Introducing the Bowimi Power BI App
To showcase Power BI’s true potential, Bowimi has launched a template app built with businesses and user experience in mind. This app is grounded in three essential principles: ease of setup, intuitive design, and actionable insights.
Our Power BI app is a natural evolution of the Bowimi product. Great insights require well-organised data, and well-organised data depends on an easy-to-use mobile app for your field team. Only when these elements come together can you unlock truly valuable business insights.
Making Power BI useful isn’t just about importing data into tables and associating columns. We built dozens of advanced calculated columns and filters, working backwards from the ideal visualisations our customers want to see. This transformation ensures the data tells a clear, actionable story.
Data in Power BI often starts off looking messy and unusable when it enters via the semantic model. Most providers simply hand over the raw data and hope businesses can make sense of it. In reality, very few businesses can. That’s why we’ve ensured that any business can seamlessly authenticate into our Power BI app and instantly see their data transformed into meaningful insights.
What This Means For Your Business
If you’re a field sales agency, you can now quickly set up Power BI workspaces for each client, tailor them to show only the data you want, and manage access effortlessly.
If you’re a brand, you can interrogate your data more effectively than ever, create customised graphs, and export data to spreadsheets in exactly the format you need for sharing.
Claim your free Power BI insights session
Get a free PowerBI consultation when you buy Bowimi. This will be an additional session to our three-step onboarding, and in this consultation you’ll learn how to use the existing template app, how it’s relevant to you, and discuss options for using PowerBI beyond what the template app supports if applicable.
To our existing customers, simply get in touch with your account manager to explore adding on this feature.
To see how Bowimi & Power BI can elevate your business when perfectly adopted and integrated, get in touch by simply filling in the calendar below to book a time that works for you!
