Data is a powerful enabling resource that can facilitate informed decision-making. However, merely the availability or amount of gathered data is not enough to provide useful business intelligence. In order to easily leverage its data, an organization needs digital tools with powerful analytical capabilities that can be accessed through a user-friendly interface and intuitive visualization. Modern organizations rely on being able to rationalize multiple streams of information to facilitate intelligent decisions. A data analysis tool needs to process information quickly and enable accessible interpretation. Microsoft Power BI delivers an effective mechanism to achieve these outcomes.
Microsoft Power BI delivers cloud-based BI services as well as a desktop based interface. The application facilitates data preparation, data discovery, and general data warehousing processes. Power BI features well-conceived dashboards and dedicated apps for Android as well as iOS phones to allow easy remote access, data sharing and useful insights. Easily incorporated into the Azure cloud platform, the solution is set apart by its user-friendly custom visualizations and touch screen ready functionality.
Intuitive insights and customizable visualizations that turn raw data into proactive processes
Microsoft Power BI users can select data, fields and visualizations in three simple steps that result in an on-screen output within seconds. The same dashboard can be used to create more visualizations and insights, which can then be easily saved and published to the web, to be shared with other users. This ability to process intricate queries, across multiple data sets and utilizing a highly effective tool through a simple but effective user interface, is the definitive strength of Power BI. In addition, the ability to easily create templates and manage relationships makes this solution a very effective but highly intuitive tool.
The ability to customize visualizations between stock options, free Office Store offerings, as well as those sourced from other users, multiply the benefits of a powerful analytics engine considerably. Businesses, and specific teams within them, require user-specific insights to be able to make the most of available data and insights. Visualizations that are too complex can sometimes prevent the end-user from being able to get valuable actionable information. Not only do intuitive visualizations create the possibility of a genuinely effective self-service BI, they also facilitate ease of interaction between specialized analysts and the ordinary end user.
Integrating Data Streams, Advanced Analytics and Process Optimization
As a web-based platform that monitors data and processes, Microsoft Power BI can empower organizations across diverse profiles with its highly capable analysis and reporting functions. An out-of-the-box integration between Power BI and SQL Server Analysis Services allows you to create accurately modeled templates and interactive dashboards. Microsoft Power BI is available as a free offering with data limits and a paid version with the ability to process greater throughput. Some of the salient features of Microsoft Power BI include:
Conclusion
Effectively integrating its processes and teams allows an organization the operational flexibility to exploit unlimited opportunities for efficiency. By facilitating optimal performance through a combination of powerful analytics and effective visual representation of insights and reports, Microsoft Power BI ensures that the human resources of an enterprise can coordinate their efforts and access coherent and well-structured information.
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