BrightGauge is a BI tool from ConnectWise that puts essential information in one place, providing visibility for more informed decisions. The user can customize BrightGauge dashboards and sync other business tools in its BI dashboard software for ultimate visibility. Users can also display data with embeddable gauges on public sites.
$325
per month
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Power BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.
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Pricing
BrightGauge
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Standard
$325
per month
Enterprise
$449
per month
Enterprise+
$635
per month
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Pricing Offerings
BrightGauge
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
$499 one-time fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Set up fee is waived for Enterprise+ customers. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
Features
BrightGauge
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
8.1
Ratings
1% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports
8.20 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
8.80 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
7.10 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
7.7
Ratings
5% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.5
Ratings
16% above category average
Drill-down analysis
8.40 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
8.50 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
4.70 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
9.20 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
7.9
Ratings
5% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.5
Ratings
13% above category average
Publish to Web
9.40 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF
7.40 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Report Versioning
5.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
9.20 Ratings
9.60 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers
8.50 Ratings
8.70 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge lets us know when we have critical issues that need solving. A massive influx of tickets all at the same time triggers an investigation. Usually, it is tied to a server going down, which we can address. It would not be helpful for a small MSP or IT department with just a few daily tickets. The stats are better used to track a large amount of clients.
If you want to create a visual dashboard or report that utilises various data sources then PowerBI can do this. It is great in that it takes your on-premises data and stores it on Microsoft servers where it can interact with it faster, reducing load on your own servers, while being efficient in what it transfers out. We have found it not well suited if you wanted to publish a simple report to many staff as they may all need a Pro license which can get expensive. Even if embedding the report onto a shared platform like SharePoint, it will not display if the users doesn't have a PowerBI Pro license.
Ease of use. Most people have experience working with Excel. If you know how to create pivots, you can use Power BI.
Data extraction and transformation (ETL). ETL is a joy with Power Query. It is intuitive, simple and a magical experience to transform poor data into something useful.
Visuals. Power BI is beautiful to behold, especially Power View.
Maps. The interactive maps are great built-in tools.
Cost You cannot find anything cheaper than Power BI, unless you want to give it to every user in your company.
Like many Microsoft products, you can get by with a small understanding of the product, but to truly realize the entire potential does take a while to learn.
Hooking up SQL databases to the cloud version is a more complex than just querying right into the database from the desktop version.
If I were a small business owner, I would likely use Power BI for Office 365 for the sheer fact that I would get the Office licensing I need, along with powerful capabilities. As a Microsoft Partner, we continue to see Microsoft invest heavily in the Power BI capabilities, and will continue to implement and support BI solutions around this product, as we believe this is in the best interest of our clients.
Usability is BrightGauge's strength. Granting the ability of virtually any user to be able to create a dashboard is incredibly valuable. If an organization very simple and straight forward reporting needs then BrightGauge is a perfect fit for them. Connecting to the dataset we used was very quick and easy and I imagine it would be the same for any major data source you would like to pull from.
We are satisfied with the functionality and capabilities of Power BI. Product is cost effective and full-fill the reporting requirements of the organization. You can perform most of the report level complex analysis with the help of DAX which makes Power BI very powerful analytic tool. Power BI for Office 365 has gone away and Power BI is the next evolution of it. Power BI comes with your Office 365 E5 subscription or you can purchase licensing for it separately.
We did not need to use BrightGauge's support for the entire time that we used it. Best support is always the one that isn't needed because nothing breaks.
as of now there is strong community for Power BI, you can get solution for most of your problems from there. Also you can send your error to Microsoft as well. After every 15 days they release updates to overcome all the issues of defects.
I'm not aware of any other competitors to Bright Gauge that we selected. They seem to be very close to managed IT service providers and have been great at tailoring their support to the PSAs like ConnectWise, AutoTask, etc. I can see Bright Gauge getting more and more popular as time goes by
One main competitor of Power BI is Tableau. Tableau has been around longer than Power BI so it can feel a little more refined in areas, however Power BI is catching up quickly. Tableau can be more expensive than Power BI. If you want more features and more refinement, and don't mind extra cost, then Tableau may be a better choice. But if you want something that's integrated with many things in O365, and are satisfied with fewer bells and whistles, Power BI may be the better option.
For larger customers, the dashboarding has helped our customers to remain sticky and add services/revenue to our MSP. They want to add more fragments of their IT for the 1 pane rollup.
From a leadership perspective, BG has allowed me to make difficult staffing decisions with confidence. Detailed metric driven decisions on who is hitting KPIs/who isn't - as well as when data proved we were overstaffed and understaffed.
As a Microsoft Partner implementing Business Intelligence solutions, Power BI has removed the barrier for our clients to begin the "BI journey". So often, projects get hung up in that early phase of procuring and installing/configuring expensive hardware and software. Just simply getting started and designing a beginning solution has allowed our clients to see results in 1-2 weeks using their data that might have taken months to achieve otherwise.
One significant ROI example is process improvement. In many cases, individuals or teams are spending days each month gathering data from multiple sources for reporting to their constituents. We are reducing these times to minutes by automating many of the data collection and integration processes that were previously manual.
