Power BI Business Intelligence

Microsoft Power BI is a suite of Business Intelligence (BI), reporting, and data visualization products and services for individuals and teams. Power BI stands out with streamlined publication and distribution capabilities. It is a solid business analytics solution that allows organizations to visualize their data and share insights across the organization or embed them in their app or website.

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The solution comprises several products and services, and value and versatility come from leveraging the individual elements and taking advantage of how they work together.

Power BI service

Power BI service is a secure Microsoft hosted cloud service that lets users view dashboards, reports, and Power BI apps — a type of content that combines related dashboards and reports — using a web browser or via mobile apps for Windows, iOS, and Android.

Power BI Report Server

Report Server is an on-premises report server. You can create reports in Power BI Desktop or Pro, and viewers can use Report Server to access those reports on a web browser or mobile device, or they can receive them as an email. Report Server would be useful for a company that has restrictions on cloud usage.

Power BI Mobile

Power BI has mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 mobile devices that let users connect to and interact with data.

Power BI Embedded

Power BI Embedded allows developers to embed Power BI dashboards and reports into other applications, either within their own organization – which requires users to sign in to a Power BI account – or in an application for a client or customers who don’t have a Power BI account.

Power BI Desktop

Power BI Desktop is a self-service data analysis and report authoring tool that you install on a Windows computer. It can connect to more than 70 on-premises and cloud data sources to turn information into interactive visuals. Data scientists and developers work with Power BI Desktop to produce reports and make them available to the Power BI service. In Power BI Desktop, you can:

Connect to data
Transform and model the data
Create charts and graphs
Create reports and dashboards that are collections of visuals
Share reports with others using the Power BI service
Find the fastest path to business insights

Power BI Pro

Power BI Pro is cloud-based software. The biggest difference between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Pro is the ability to collaborate with other Power BI users and distribute reports and visualizations to other Power BI subscribers across the organization. With Power BI Pro, you can:

Embed Power BI visuals into Power BI apps
Integrate with other Microsoft solutions, such as Azure data services
Share data, dashboards, and reports with other Power BI users
Create workspaces – places to collaborate with colleagues to create collections of dashboards and reports
Enable peer-to-peer sharing – a way to share published dashboards or reports with people outside the organization who have a Power BI Pro license.

Power BI Premium

Unlike Power BI Desktop and Pro, Power BI Premium is not an application. Premium gives an organization space and capacity in a Microsoft-hosted cloud to share reports. An organization can choose how to apply its dedicated capacity by allocating it based on the number of users, workload needs, or other factors – and scale up or down as needed. With Power BI Premium you have:

Flexibility to publish reports across an enterprise, without requiring recipients to be licensed individually per user
Greater scale and performance than shared capacity in the Power BI service
The ability to maintain BI assets on-premises with Power BI Report Server
One API surface, a consistent set of capabilities, and access to the latest features for embedded analytics

Reasons to use Power BI

A Quick Start.

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.
Ability to customize security features

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Power BI users can access image recognition and text analytics, create machine learning models, and integrate with Azure Machine Learning.
Cortana integration

Power BI works with Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana. Users can verbally ask questions in natural language to access charts and graphs. This can be especially helpful for users with mobile devices.

Streamlined publication and distribution

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.
Real-time information

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.
Ability to customize Power BI app navigation

An “app navigation experiences” feature gives report developers the power to customize navigation to help viewers find content quickly and understand the relationships between different reports and dashboards.

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