Recommendations for Management Dashboard: Jira vs Power BI

[Rachel]

Hi,

I'm exploring options for building a management dashboard and would appreciate your insights on platform suitability—specifically between Jira and Power BI.

The dashboard would need to cover:

• Manpower productivity: Billable vs non-billable time utilization
• Project overview: Internal/external classification, section, status
• Project productivity: Profit & loss, progress tracking, risk visibility

In our current setup:

• We use custom columns to track time spent per epic
• Project status and risks are stored within Atlassian tools (primarily Jira)

Given this context, would Jira alone be sufficient for building such a dashboard, or would integrating with Power BI offer better flexibility and visualization? I'm particularly interested in how each platform handles cross-project reporting and financial metrics.

Thanks in advance!

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @Rachel welcome to the Atlassian Community Forums!

A Dashboard shows the as-is, actual, real-time situation and has no BI capabilities

Power BI gives your historical BI capabilities.

If you already have Power BI within your organization, I would suggest to either:

• integrate Jira with Power BI
• install a connector from the Marketplace
• use a custom solution with middleware for your data

In the end, Power BI will give you more capabilities to drill down, filter, group, create reports and dashboards than Jira out-of-the-box.