Turn your Data into Meaningful and Interactive Insights with Microsoft Power BI

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• Turn your Data into Meaningful and Interactive
  Insights with Microsoft Power BI
• What is Microsoft Power BI?
• Power BI, a part of the Microsoft Power Platform,
  is a collection of cloud-based software,
  services, connectors, and apps that work together
  to transform your unrelated sources of data into
  visually appealing and interactive insights. It
  provides interactive visualizations and business
  intelligence capabilities with a simple interface
  that allow users to easily create their own
  reports and dashboards. Microsoft Power BI is
  effective in finding insights within an
  organization's data and helps connect disparate
  data sets, transform, and clean the data into a
  data model and visualize data in the form of
  charts or graphs. The data models created from
  BI can be shared with other users within the
  organization and can also be used in several ways
  for organizations.
• Use of Power BI
• Power BI is a powerful business intelligence
  tools that can be used for different purposes
• Power BI report is also effective in answering
  real-time questions and in forecasting to ensure
  that business metrics are met by the departments.
• Administrators and managers get access to
  executive dashboards with the use of Power BI
  that gives them insight into the workings of
  their departments.
• Power BI collects data together and processes it
  turning it into intelligible insights using
  visually appealing and easy-to-process charts and
  graphs. This further allows users to generate
  and share insight on things taking place in the
  business.
• It connects a diverse range of data sources
  ranging from basic Excel spreadsheets to
  databases, and from cloud-based apps to
  on-premise apps.
• Distinguish Features of Power BI
• Power BI, an efficient business intelligence
  tool, is equipped with data visualization and
  analytics-rich features. Some of the key features
  of Power BI include
• Wide range of Visualizations - Power BI offers a
  wide range of detailed and attractive
  visualizations, as a visual representation of
  data plays a major role in Power BI. Users can
  create dashboards and reports to represent their
  data using visualizations. Power BI also has a
  library available to facilitate custom
  visualizations.
• Power BI Desktop - It is an interactive tool that
  helps users build reports by accessing data.
  Users who do not have Excel power or queries
  skills can also create a report with this powerful

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tool. Power BI desktop tool can be downloaded
free of cost and allow users to create
exceptional reports without much technical
knowledge. Visibility - Organizations today find
difficulty in manipulating data with other
datasets to derive meaningful information. To
handle it effectively businesses can collect
various datasets and organize them in different
visuals to have a better understanding of data.
With the help of Power BI representation,
organizations can obtain meaningful information
from the datasets that will help them have an
edge over their competitors. Create Amazing Data
Experiences - Businesses can easily connect to
the model and visualize their data creating
memorable reports personalized with their brand.
Businesses can also obtain AI-powered answers to
the questions related to their business even in
the conversational language. Gain Insight -
Businesses can make the most of their big data
investments by connecting to their data sources
to analyze, share, and promote insights across
their organization while maintaining data
accuracy, security, and consistency. Make
Confident Decisions - Different departments of
the organization can work together on the same
data, collaborate on reports, and share insights
across popular applications like Microsoft Teams
and Excel. This will empower everyone in the
organization to quickly make data-driven
decisions driving strategic actions. Though Power
BI is built based on Microsoft Excel, so users
knowing Excel will not find learning Power BI
difficult, and users who can use Excel will also
be able to use Power BI. However, Power BI is
much more powerful than Excel. BI is a
cloud-based platform that consolidates data from
diverse sources into a single data set that is
further used for data visualization and analysis
by creating shareable reports, dashboards, and
apps. It is a leading BI tool that proves to be
an efficient and user-friendly tool for data
analysis and allows users to create interactive
dashboards and reports that can be easily shared
with other users.