What is Power BI?

Power BI is the “Analyse” application within Power Platform – helping businesses visualise data and make data-driven decisions. It captures real-time data from other Power Platform applications, such as Power Apps, Power Pages, and Power Automate 

Effortlessly connect to your data sources, visualize and identify key insights, and share them with anyone you choose! 

Key features of Power BI: 

  • Data Integration – Consolidate data from multiple sources. 
  • Quick Insights – Create subsets of data and automatically apply analytics to that information. 
  • Data Visualisation – Create interactive and visually appealing reports and dashboards.
  • Data Modelling – Analyse and define all different data types, as well as the relationships between those bits of data.
  • Accessibility & Security – Grant and control access for users, based on a robust and secure platform.
  • AI Integration & Capabilities – Analyse text, detect objects and predict trends.
     

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Benefits of Power BI for your business

Easy to use

Cost Effective

Real-Time Analytics & Personalised Dashboards

Simple Collaboration

Data Modelling

Powerful Connectivity

Database & Software Problems that Power BI can solve

  • Multiple files holding the same information – Unable to determine what data is the most up to date.
  • Waiting on figures – Unable to quickly collect data & figures; needing to wait on colleagues or data collation.
  • Using data from old reports – The use of outdated data due to insufficient data control, labelling, or storage practices.
  • Excessive time spent pulling together data – Data not presented in an easy to digest format, such as charts and images for business presentations.
  • Unable to find specific data sets – Manually searching for specific data sets
  • Unable to determine level of success – Multiple performance reports for each area of the business, with no overall performance figures 
  • Data security vulnerabilities – No end-to-end standard data protection protocols  

The platform’s integration capabilities, user-friendly interface, and powerful analytics features make it an indispensable tool for businesses aiming to leverage their data effectively and solve database & software problems.

Businesses can enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and gain a competitive advantage in their industry.

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Power Apps

Power Apps is the Microsoft suite of products, enabling users to build custom applications to address various business needs.

Power Automate

Power Automate is the “Flow” application within Power Platform – helping businesses automate workflows and tasks across multiple applications and services. 

Power Pages

Power Pages is the low-code application within Power Platform that enables users to create web pages and portals.