In the past, you may have used Excel to organise data and visualise it in a basic chart. This is often time consuming since you have to manually pull all the data from multiple applications and databases.
Power BI solves this headache by automatically bringing data from all sources into one central system. You can quickly organise data and build beautiful charts to help you better understand what your data means.
Since Power BI is hosted in the cloud, you can access your data and charts from anywhere, at any time, on any device. You can even share and collaborate on documents with colleagues in real time directly inside Power BI.
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Let’s look at three advantages of using Power BI.
1. Power BI brings your data together
Power BI brings together all your data – from all your data sources – so you can start analysing and visualising it in seconds.
For example, you can pull in data from Excel spreadsheets, on-premise data sources and SQL databases. You can also automatically grab data from your favourite cloud services like Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Marketo and Zendesk.
Microsoft is rolling out direct integrations with more popular cloud services to make it even easier to get all your data straight into Power BI. If you can’t wait, you can use the Power BI REST API to push data directly from any cloud application into Power BI.
One of the most talked about features of Power BI is the Power BI Q&A. This feature lets you ask a question about your data and it immediately serves up a correct answer in the form of an interactive chart or graph.
2. Power BI keeps you focused on the important metrics
Gathering insights from your data is a breeze with Power BI’s simple drag-and-drop user experience. You can quickly find the insights you are looking for and visualise them in beautiful, interactive reports.
Once you have a report, save it to your personal dashboard. Here, you can quickly see the charts and graphs with the data most important to you. Centralise all your insights onto one dashboard so you can stay focused on the metrics important to your business.
Imagine seeing all your data – from all your applications – on one dashboard. Quickly view all your financial metrics, employee productivity numbers, customer satisfaction scores and marketing metrics in one place.
3. Power BI gives you the insight to stay on top of opportunities and risks
Capitalising on opportunities and minimising risks are important to sustain business growth. Power BI offers predictive forecasting to help you visualise future product and business performance.
The feature is called Power View and it goes beyond just analytics to offer users the ability to predict their data series forward in interactive charts and reports.
Stay on top of opportunities while you’re on the go. Power BI is 100% hosted in the cloud, built for the modern, mobile workplace. Easily access your data across all your desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
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