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Microsoft Power BI

Nowadays BI is about providing the right data at the right time to the right people so that they can make the right decisions. For the Business Intelligence, showcasing or visualizing the data into the charts and graphs Microsoft Power BI is used.

Power BI is a data visualization and Business intelligence tool that converts that data from different data sources to interactive dashboards and Business Intelligence reports.

Power BI suite provides multiple software, connector and services — Power BI Desktop, Power BI service based on the SaaS and mobile BI apps available for the different platforms. This set of services used by the business users to consume data and build BI reports.

As we know that Power BI is a data visualization tool, there are other alternative tools available and which are competitive to Power BI. Some of them are -

• Tableau Desktop
• Google Data Studio
• Holistics
• IBM Cognos Analytics
• Qlik Sense
• Looker

How do you know whether Microsoft Power BI is right for your usage? So, here are 7 reasons to choose Power BI — and one reason you may want to choose something else :

1. You’ll be able to get insights quickly with an uncomplicated setup, no required training, and included dashboards for services such as salesforce, google analytics, and Microsoft dynamics.
2. Instead of emailing large files or putting them on a shared drive, analysts upload reports and visualizations to the Power BI service, and their data is refreshed whenever the underlying dataset is updated.
3. Dashboards update in real-time, as data is pushed or streamed in, which gives viewers the ability to solve problems and identify opportunities quickly. Any report or dashboard can display and update real-time data and visuals. Sources of streaming data can be factory sensors, social media sources, or anything from which time-sensitive data can be collected or transmitted.
4. An “app navigation experiences” feature gives report developed the power to customize navigation to help viewers find content quickly and understand the relationships between different reports and dashboards.
5. Report developers can set up row-level security (RLS) access filters to ensure that viewers see only data relevant to them, mitigating the risk of people seeing data they shouldn’t.
6. Power BI works with Microsoft digital assistant, Cortona. Users can verbally ask questions in natural language to access charts and graphs. This can be especially helpful for users with mobile devices.
7. Power BI users can access image recognition and text analytics, create machine learning models, and integrate with azure machine learning.

There are different versions of Power BI available -

• Power BI Desktop
• Power BI mobile
• Power BI embedded
• Power BI Report Server
• Power BI Service

These are few examples of dashboards in Microsoft Power BI -

• Finance Dashboard
• Sales Analysis Dashboard
• Product Sales Dashboard
• Ad Display Dashboard

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