Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a business intelligence platform that provides non-technical business users with tools to analyze, visualize, cross-reference and share data.
Power BI’s user interface is incredibly intuitive for users familiar with Excel, and its integration with other Microsoft products makes it an extremely versatile tool that requires little initial training.
Microsoft Power BI enables you to search for information in your company’s data.
Power BI can help you connect disparate data sets, transform and cleanse data into a data model, and create charts or tables to bring your data to life.
All this data can then be shared with other Power BI users within your organization.
Power BI reports can also answer questions in real time, and help you with forecasting to ensure that departments stay within the company’s operational parameters.
Power BI can also provide management dashboards to directors or managers, enabling management to better understand the situation of the various departments.
Microsoft Power BI consists of a set of applications and can be used on your computer, as a SaaS product or on a mobile device.
There are dozens of data sources that connect to Power BI, ranging from files (Excel, PDF, SharePoint Folder, XML), to databases (SQL Server Database, Oracle Database, IBM databases, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery), other Power BI datasets, Azure data reports and numerous online services (Dynamics 365, Salesforce Reports, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Facebook and others).