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An Introduction to Power BI

Written by Nexlogica Team

January 19, 2023


Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool developed by Microsoft. It allows users to connect to various data sources, perform data transformations, and create interactive and visually appealing reports.

Power BI offers a wide range of features for creating interactive and visually appealing reports. Some of the key features of Power BI include:

  1. Data Connectivity: Power BI allows users to connect to various data sources, including Excel, SQL Server, and cloud-based services such as Azure, Salesforce, and Google Analytics.
  2. Data Transformation: Power BI allows users to perform data transformations, such as filtering, grouping, and summarizing, to prepare the data for analysis.
  3. Data Visualization: Power BI offers a wide range of visualization options, including charts, tables, and maps, to help users make sense of the data.
  4. Natural Language Querying: Power BI allows users to ask questions in natural language and receive instant answers in the form of visualizations.
  5. Real-time Data Streaming: Power BI allows users to stream real-time data and create visualizations that update in real-time.
  6. Collaboration and Sharing: Power BI allows users to share and collaborate on reports and dashboards with other users.
  7. Customizable: Power BI allows users to customize their reports and dashboards with various themes and custom visuals.
  8. Mobile App: Power BI has a mobile app version for iOS, Android and Windows.
  9. Power Automate integration: Power BI allows you to connect with power automate for automation of some of the data preparation tasks.
  10. Power Query and M language: It allows you to access and manipulate data from various sources, including web pages and databases, using Power Query and the M language.

Power BI allows you to connect to various data sources, create and publish interactive reports, and share them with others. The software provides a variety of visualizations, such as charts, tables, and maps, as well as features for data modeling, filtering, and analysis. With Power BI, you can easily create professional-looking reports that provide insights into your data.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POWER BI REPORTS AND DASHBOARDS

Power BI Reports and Power BI Dashboards are both components of the Power BI platform, but they serve different purposes.

Power BI Reports are interactive and visually appealing documents that allow users to analyze and explore data. Reports can contain multiple pages, and each page can have a different layout and visualization. Power BI Desktop is primarily used to create Reports.

Power BI Dashboards, on the other hand, are a collection of visualizations, such as charts and tables, that are displayed on a single page. They provide a high-level overview of the key metrics and insights from the data. Dashboards can be created and edited in the Power BI Service and can be shared with other users. The main purpose of Dashboards is to give an overview of important data and insights, so users can quickly understand the state of their business.

In short, Reports are more detail oriented and allows you to dive deep into the data, Dashboards are more high-level and focused on giving you a quick overview of the most important data and insights.

Power BI is considered one of the best report tools – it is easy to use and has a friendly user interface. It is also affordable and has a free version for small business.


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