power-bi-and-business-analytics

Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization. Connect to hundreds of data sources, simplify data prep, and drive ad hoc analysis. Produce beautiful reports, then publish them for your organization to consume on the web and across mobile devices. Everyone can create personalized dashboards with a unique, 360-degree view of their business. And scale across the enterprise, with governance and security built-in.

Power BI is a business analytics service provided by Microsoft. It provides interactive visualizations with self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and dashboards by themselves, without having to depend on information technology staff or database administrators. Power BI is quickly gaining popularity among professionals in data science as a cloud-based service that helps them easily visualize and share insights from their organizations’ data.

Microsoft Power BI Desktop is built for the analyst. It combines state-of-the-art interactive visualizations, with industry-leading data query and modelling built-in. Create and publish your reports to Power BI. Power BI Desktop helps you empower others with timely critical insights, anytime, anywhere.

With the Power BI Desktop you can visually explore your data through a free-form drag-and-drop canvas, a broad range of modern data visualizations, and an easy-to-use report authoring experience. With the on-premises data gateways, you can keep your data fresh by connecting to your on-premises data sources without the need to move the data. With the on-premises data gateways, you can keep your data fresh by connecting to your on-premises data sources without the need to move the data.

Power BI Desktop puts visual analytics at your fingertips. With this powerful authoring tool, you can create interactive data visualizations and reports. Connect, mash up and model, and visualize your data. Place visuals exactly where you want them, analyze and explore your data, and share content with your team by publishing to the Power BI web service. With Power BI Desktop, you can connect to all sorts of different data sources, then combine and shape them in ways that facilitate making interesting, compelling data analysis and visualizations.

Power BI desktop app is used to create reports, while Power BI Services (Software as a Service – SaaS) is used to publish the reports, and Power BI mobile app is used to view the reports and dashboards. Power BI Desktop is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Benefits of Power BI are as follows

• The dashboard visualizations are best in class and continually updated from the community.
• The pace of innovation is amazing. The product is updated about monthly.
• The free version reduces acquisition barriers.