PowerBI is really an amazing for the price point (free-ish for O365 accounts) for most businesses out there (10~300 employees). It's not one size fits all and Y

PowerBI is really an amazing for the price point (free-ish for O365 accounts) for most businesses out there (10~300 employees). It's not one size fits all and YMMV. 1) You have this problem regardless 2) Huh? Why not just the cloud version? Are you trying to report directly on a productive transactional database for a software app? See #3 about source of data. 3) Depends on your source data. I build a dashboard for sales in with data from SalesForce in like 2 hours.