This morning, Microsoft updates the Power BI application with new features and enhancements every month. For the latest version, users can download the most recent version from the Power BI website or Windows 10 users can get Power BI Desktop through Windows Store. Windows Store.
Microsoft Power BI connects data sources and delivers a business intelligence overview for users. It connects with an Excel spreadsheet or connects both on and cloud-based storage facilities for data. The data gathered from cloud-based sources like Salesforce CRM can be continuously refreshed. When using applications like the Excel Workbook, and Power BI Desktop file connected to online or on-premises sources of data, Power BI users must manually refresh or set up refresh times to ensure the data used in Power BI reports and dashboards make use of the most up-to-date information available.
Power BI components
Power BI comprises an assortment of applications and is available on the desktop, as a SaaS product, or on a mobile device. Power BI Desktop is the version on-premises, and Power BI Service is the cloud-based service as well as mobile. Power BI is available on mobile phones.
The different parts of Power BI are designed to allow users to create and share business data in an approach that matches their job.
In Power BI are various tools that allow users to make and share reports with data.
- PowerQuery: a transform and data mashup tool
- Power Pivot A memory table tool for modeling data
- Power View is a visualization tool for data
- Power Map is A tool to visualize geospatial information in 3D
- Power Q & A: An natural-language engine for answering questions and questions
Furthermore, there are hundreds of sources for data that can be connected to Power BI, ranging from files (Excel PDF SharePoint Folder XML) and data sources (SQL Server Database, Oracle Database, IBM databases, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery) as well as additional Power BI data sets, Azure connections to data and many online applications (Dynamics 360, Salesforce Reports, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Facebook and many more).
How do you use Power BI?
Power BI Desktop is where analysts and other users are able to build data connections, models of data, and reports. It is also the Power BI service that allows these reports to be shared so that other users can access and be able to interact with them.
Making the Power BI report begins by connecting sources of data. The users then use the data and create reports that are based on their requirements. The report is then published through Power BI Service and shared with mobile and cloud users so they are able to access as well as interact with it. Permissions are added to grant colleagues access to edit reports, or even build visualizations or restrict their editing capabilities. If you are new to Power BI then consider taking Power BI Training to enhance your skills.
Cost of Power BI
There are three Power BI levels for users. They are Power BI Desktop, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium. The desktop version of Power BI is absolutely free however the Pro version costs $9.99 per month, per user (as of November 2018). Pricing for PowerBI Premium is dependent on the extent of the deployment and the number of users.
