What people complain about in Power Bi
5 reported problems name Power Bi as what the person is currently using. Below is what they said was missing, and what they resorted to instead.
- Complaints
- 5
- Avg severity
- 3.0/5
- Would pay to fix
- 0
- Industries
- 3
What they wish it did
Capabilities people described needing that Power Bi does not give them, taken from the highest-scoring problems first. These are individual accounts written in each person’s own terms, so two entries may describe the same underlying gap in different words.
- Automated GL account-to-report mapping with AI suggestions and approval workflow
- A finance-specific data visualization tool that is simpler than enterprise BI but more powerful than Excel for dashboarding
- A centralized client portal with automated document collection and status tracking
- KPI dashboards with AI-generated plain-English summaries for non-finance clients
- Unified action item and report library within a single client-facing platform
What they do instead
The manual processes people built around the gap. A long workaround list is the strongest evidence a problem is real: someone is already paying for it in time. Where several people described the same workaround, it is marked.
- manual review with accounting expertise to map new GL codes to every report
- Living in Excel forever
- reporting is getting messy
- stakeholders asking for dashboards beyond pivot tables
- collecting monthly documents from clients via email
- managing reports and follow-ups across email, Google Drive, spreadsheets, PDFs, Notion, Slack
- sending clients reports/dashboards that they struggle to understand
The problems themselves
Highest opportunity score first.
Maintaining GL account code mappings across multiple financial reports is tedious, error-prone, and requires accounting expertise.
3MediumAccounting & BookkeepingFinancial ManagementMapMate AIFinance teams need a data visualization tool between Excel complexity and enterprise BI overkill for budget tracking, variance reports, and executive dashboards.
3MediumAccounting & BookkeepingData ManagementFinDash LiteERP canned reports are insufficient, leading clients to abandon them for custom Power BI solutions.
3MediumAccounting & BookkeepingReporting & AnalyticsReportFlowA corporate controller lacks proficiency in reporting tools like Excel, Power BI, and AI, and needs to quickly upskill for a new PE-backed construction role.
3MediumConstructionSkill DevelopmentReportWise AcceleratorFractional CFOs struggle to collect monthly financial documents from clients on time and manage client reporting across disparate tools.
3MediumProfessional ServicesClient Communication & ExperienceClientPortal CFO
Read this fairly
These are complaints, and only complaints — nobody posts to say their software worked. A high count mostly reflects how many people use Power Bi at all, so this page is not a quality judgement and should not be read as one. What it is good for is the shape of the gaps: the specific jobs people could not get done, which are the same whether the tool is popular or not.