VIDEO: Power BI Demo

Microsoft power bi is a self-service business intelligence solution that lets you analyze business data and share insights through rich visualizations a top-rated business intelligence product you will definitely want to consider power bi in your software search but if you're looking to speed up your search we can help use our product selection tool to get a free shortlist of business intelligence software recommendations click the link in the description to get started power bi enables users to author reports using intuitive drag-and-drop tools publish visualizations and collaborate with others using the online power bi service power bi desktop can be used to create and distribute content for free while the web service can be used to monitor key data and share dashboards for a monthly fee a mobile app allows users to access and interact with data from any mobile device and the embedded function lets users embed visual and interactive reports into applications with power bi dashboards users get a full 360-degree view of their business showing all the key data metrics in one place updated in real-time and available across all their devices dashboard creation is made easy via the hundreds of connections to other popular business applications available and power bi also comes with pre-built dashboards to help users get started quickly power bi interfaces with gateways to connect with and unify data while the dust cup version for Windows provides local data mashup and report authoring features it comes with 59 out-of-the-box connections for apps and services including Salesforce Google Analytics as your Zendesk and more with power bi users can gather data from all these sources to help create a full picture of key metrics that can then be queried using natural language one of the platform's most impressive functions is its integration with excel with power bi you can analyze and manipulate excel data in a host of new ways through cloud connectivity data can be accessed from other areas of the business no matter where they are charts datasets and maps can be combined into one dynamic view so that you can compare multiple different data sources at once collaboration is made simple with office 365 integration where users can share their findings and data visualizations with anyone on their network and with other office 365 users power bi also offers a smart Q&A feature users type a question and the platform provides the answer in the form of an interactive chart or graph there are many pros of Microsoft power bi let's go over a few of them if you've watched this far you can probably tell that the system offers an intuitive and easy to use user interface this makes it much easier to perform various functions in the software and it also mitigates the learning curve that comes with the polling a new system plus power bi comes with a good amount of helpful learning materials to get your team up and running quickly power bi integrates seamlessly with excel but it also offers dozens of other data connectors so you can gain greater insight into your business data connectors for power bi range from pre-built to custom-made and include popular software tools like Amazon redshift Facebook github Salesforce and Twilio additionally you can import data from CSV JSON and PDF files among others apart from the many benefits of using power bi many users consistently complain about the disconnect between the desktop and web versions of the tool at the time of publishing you can't publish for share visualizations from the desktop tool the desktop tool is great for analyzing and cleaning data but to share any of the visualizations you create you'll have to access the web tool still not sure if Microsoft power bi is right for you use our product selection tool to request your free list of business intelligence software recommendations click the button on the left to get started you

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