What is Power BI

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Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence (BI) platform provided by Microsoft for analyzing and visualizing raw data to present actionable information.

In February 2019, Gartner confirmed Microsoft as Leader in the “2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platform” as a result of the capabilities of the Power BI platform.

How Power BI works

You can use Power BI to visualize your data and share insights. It converts data from different sources to build interactive dashboards and Business Intelligence reports.

Why Power BI?

Following are the reasons why Power BI is so popular and needed in the BI domain:

  1. Access to Volumes of Data from Multiple Sources
    Power BI can access vast volumes of data from multiple sources. It allows you to view, analyze, and visualize vast quantities of data that cannot be opened in Excel. Some of the important data sources available for Power BI are Excel, CSV, XML, JSON, pdf, etc. Power BI uses powerful compression algorithms to import and cache the data within the.PBIX file.
  2. Interactive UI/UX Features
    Power BI makes things visually appealing. It has an easy drag and drops functionality, with features that allow you to copy all formatting across similar visualizations.
  3. Exceptional Excel Integration
    Power BI helps to gather, analyze, publish, and share Excel business data. Anyone familiar with Office 365 can easily connect Excel queries, data models, and reports to Power BI Dashboards.
  4. Accelerate Big Data Preparation with Azure
    Using Power BI with Azure allows you to analyze and share massive volumes of data. An azure data lake can reduce the time it takes to get insights and increase collaboration between business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.
  5. Turn Insights into Action
    Power BI allows you to gain insights from data and turn those insights into actions to make data-driven business decisions.
  6. Real-time Stream Analytics
    Power BI will enable you to perform real-time stream analytics. It helps you fetch data from multiple sensors and social media sources to get access to real-time analytics, so you are always ready to make business decisions.

Last but not least, Power BI Desktop version is free. You can download here (Power BI Desktop)

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