Power BI is an incredible tool for businesses looking to begin, organize and/or expand their business intelligence activities. It's not a surprise that the renown Microsoft product has grown to become one of the top platform for data analytics around the world. And it's no surprise that Microsoft has been named a top contender on the "2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms" for the 14th year in consecutive years.
What is it that makes Power BI so unique? Here are the seven benefits that Power BI offers:
- Power BI can provide business information for every aspect of
- Power BI is a way to bring information into life (interactivity)
- Power BI is safe
- Power BI easily connects to numerous sources of data
- Power BI has artificial intelligence capabilities
- Power BI is continually developed and improved
- PowerBI apps are an excellent way to share content
Let's look at these benefits in greater detail.
- Power BI can Provide Business Analytics for all One of the biggest advantages to PowerBI's platform is it helps businesses (of any size) to develop an environment that is driven by data. A data-driven cultures are those in which the decisions are based on data , not on emotions or intuition.
Power BI helps companies accomplish this task with ease by placing business intelligence resources (like dashboards and reports that are updated in real time) to the disposal of every person (if required) within the company. This allows all employees can make choices based on live and reliable information.
Power BI currently has two versions: Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. Power BI Desktop is totally free, which means that anyone within an organization is able to install Power BI Desktop and begin using it straight away. Power BI Desktop is where users are able to connect to data and build reports that feature stunning visualizations.
These reports can be eventually made available (as Dashboards) in the Cloud version Power BI, which is also known as the Power BI service. It is part of the Power BI service where reports are published to be used as dashboards that can be accessed by anyone on any device and at any time.
Power BI is a paid service. Power BI service is not free and requires an Power BI Pro license for use. Take a look at my previous article of this year, "Power BI Pricing - What Is Power BI Cost?" to find out more.
- Power BI Makes Data Real (Interactivity) Data is truly valuable when it provides useful business insight and share the stories that can help decision makers make better choices.
Power BI can be used to transform data into. The users can link their information to Power BI and choose from various visualizations (column charts pie charts, bubbles and heat maps, scatterplots and so on.) to share the stories about their data to discover and share information.
The implementation of such visualizations is a breeze and Power BI's feature allows you to move and reposition images to create clear, informative and well-organized reports and dashboards. Power BI's user interface Power BI is simple for those familiar with Excel and its connection to other Microsoft products makes it a flexible self-service tool that requires only minimal Power BI Training.
Additionally, these visualisations can be interactive and interactive, which is a major advantage from Power BI. Customers can apply filters to dashboards and reports and see their visuals adapt and change in just a few minutes to satisfy their needs for the filter they have applied and gain greater information from their information.
- Power BI is secure Power BI has a plethora of security options that allow users to safeguard sensitive data and comply with various security and conformity standards. For example, Power BI takes advantage of Microsoft's Cloud App Security feature, which "provides powerful visibility as well as control over data movement and advanced analytics to help you identify and defeat threats to your data across Microsoft and third-party cloud service".
Additionally, Power BI's sensitive labels feature allows administrators to inform consumers and users about what information or data can be considered important and, therefore, must be handled in a different way. The renowned Microsoft product also comes with encryption options that further protect information.
In addition developers can also take advantage the row-level security (RLS) capability to establish and define different roles for various users. This security feature can be extremely beneficial for companies that possess data that must only be available to certain employees (or groups of employees).
Power BI is able to connect to a variety of Data Sources
I'm not planning to spend much time on this aspect from Power BI. The data analytics platform connects to a myriad of data sources, ranging from the file data sources such as Excel as well as CSV to databases like Oracle databases as well as Snowflake in addition to online data sources such as Salesforce as well as Adobe Analytics.Power BI has Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
Power BI possesses artificial intelligence capabilities that help users benefit more from their data and reports. It comes with 3 impressive AI visualisations which developers are able to employ to dig deeper into their data to uncover insights and trends that are difficult to spot.
For a brief explanation of how these visuals work, read my post from earlier in the year. "Power Artificial Intelligence in BI: 3 AI Visuals that Enhance your Analytics."
Power BI is Continually being Improved
Microsoft continues to invest time and cash in Power BI, showing clear determination to make Power BI an extremely effective and efficient data analytics platforms available in the world. It is not uncommon to add new features to the tool and the existing tools are often modified and enhanced.Power BI Apps - A Fantastic Way to Share Content
The final Power BI benefit I'm going to talk about on this post includes Power BI apps.
Apps that are part of Power BI are a very practical way for report writers to disseminate Power BI content to consumers regardless of whether they are in large numbers or an entire company, or just one individual.
The benefits in Power BI apps firsthand throughout our work with consultants. We recently assisted a major retail company make the most from this function. After aiding our client to enhance their data, adopt Power BI, and generate powerful dashboards and reports Then, we helped our client build a strong Power BI app to effectively communicate the Power BI content with other employees.
The application has been a massive success, and the whole process has allowed our client to facilitate the development and growth of a data-driven culture.
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