POWER BI AS A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION
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Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization. Its main selling points are integrated data sources, simplified data preparation and driving ad hoc analysis.
Power BI has a dynamic graphics display, customizable dashboards that offer an all-round view of your business.
It is a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Ease of Use
Power BI can be used for multi-level clients. Different roles can utilize the suite. From users, administrators, sponsors, consultants, agents and analysts. It is easy to use and provides modifiable dashboards relevant to any role within an organization.
Industries
Power BI can be used across the following industries: IT, Software, Public Sector, Consumer Goods, Telecommunications, Energy, Professional Services, Finance and Health.
It can be used in SMEs, Midlevel enterprises and large enterprises.
Product Quality
Power BI enables you to drive results by easily customizing existing software to meet your exact needs. Gather rich insights and analytics from your data. Build sophisticated business apps with PowerApps, create workflow automations with Microsoft Flow, and bring together all the data you need with Common Data Service. Power BI allows you to automate tasks by setting up workflows between your favorite apps and services and streamline business processes.
Data Sources
Power BI can get data from Excel, Text, JSON, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Azure and Online Sources.
Power BI Data Sources
Product Categories
Power BI is available as:
Power BI Mobile: Power BI mobile app that is available on Windows, Android and iOS.
Power BI Desktop: PC application software that delivers report authoring.
Power BI Premium: Provides enhanced performance and larger data volumes without needing to license each user individually.
Power BI Embedded: Integrate easy-to-use analytics in your apps to speed decision making.
Power BI can be launched on premise or over a cloud.
It is browser supported as well.
It is available on Windows, and iOS platforms.
Cons
It can be difficult to set up.
Power BI has a definite learning curve.
Automatic refresh can be cumbersome.
Power BI has complex licensing as one needs Office 365 tenancy and the free version in some schemes can’t be updated to Power BI Pro.
Pricing
For Author package: Power BI Desktop| Free.
For Share and Collaborate package: Power BI Pro| $9.99 Per User per Month.
For Scale Large Deployment package: Power BI Premium| Capacity Pricing per Node per Month.
Demos and Free Trials
Take a tour of Power BI here: Power BI tour
Get started with Power BI here: Get Started
