Power BI is a Microsoft tool that helps businesses visualize their data and make informed decisions that allow teams to be magicians of data. Through its suite of tools and features, businesses can quickly gain insights into their data and build data models that allow for quick analysis. With Power BI, organizations can stay ahead of the competition by more easily identifying trends in their data and making decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information.

Why Companies Choose Power BI

The magic of Power BI is that it helps organizations get the most out of their data. By combining different datasets from multiple sources, businesses can quickly identify trends and opportunities in their data and make informed decisions. With Power BI organizations can:

• Securely store and access their data anytime, anywhere
• Quickly identify trends and relationships between datasets
• Access data from multiple sources and combine it in one place
• Build powerful data models to gain deeper insights into their data
• Easily share their data with colleagues to make better decisions together
• Create interactive visualizations to easily spot correlations, outliers, and other patterns

A Powerful Suite of Features

For businesses to get the most out of their data, they need tools that give them insight into what is happening in their organization. That is where Microsoft’s Power BI comes in. The tool leverages multiple components to give businesses deeper data insights, including: 

Power Query: Data Collection and Cleaning

Power Query enables users to pull data from multiple sources, clean it up, and combine it into one dataset for further analysis. With Power Query, users can access data from various sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, web services, and more. Once the data has been collected, it can be transformed and filtered to get the desired output without having to manually go through each dataset.

Power Pivot: Data Modeling

Power Pivot is an in-memory data model that allows users to create powerful data models and quickly analyze large amounts of data. Power Pivot uses an advanced engine that can process millions of rows of data quickly and efficiently, enabling users to explore the relationships between different datasets without manually combining them.

Power View: Visualizing Data

Power View is a tool that allows users to visualize their data in a variety of ways. With Power View, users can create interactive visualizations such as charts, tables, and maps that make spotting trends in their data easier. This helps businesses better understand their data and identify opportunities for improvement.

Power Map: Mapping Data

Power Map is a tool that enables users to create maps of their data to identify geographical trends. This is useful for businesses that analyze and visualize data in different regions and countries. With Power Map, users can quickly spot patterns, correlations, and outliers that they may not have seen otherwise.

Power BI Desktop: Bringing It All Together

Power BI Desktop is the ultimate tool for bringing all of these components together. It allows users to combine data from different sources, create interactive visualizations and build powerful data models that help them quickly identify trends and make more informed decisions.

Power BI Architecture

Coupled with a robust cloud-based architecture, Microsoft’s Power BI allows businesses to quickly and easily access their data no matter where it is stored. With the ability to combine different datasets from multiple sources, users can gain new insights into their data that would have never been possible before. Furthermore, the cloud-based architecture helps ensure that data is securely stored and available whenever it is needed.

Overall, Microsoft Power BI is the perfect solution for any business that is looking to maximize the potential of its data. Independent Connections can partner with you to offer this suite of tools and powerful cloud architecture, that can easily combine datasets from different sources, create interactive visualizations, build powerful data models, and make informed decisions. Ultimately, together with Power BI, we can help your business make better use of your data and stay ahead of the competition.