Power BI - What is Power BI? For those people, who do not have to know what Power BI is, we want with this article summarized in a few words and for you to understand perfectly, to tell you that it is Microsoft Power BI.
What does that all talk about called Power BI? For some time now, you can see online articles, news, comments ... related to Microsoft Power BI, business intelligence, real-time data mining and endless things more... Microsoft Power BI is the solution for business intelligence, which allows you to join different data sources (more than 65), model and analyze data for later, present them through panels and reports; which can be consulted in a very easy, attractive and intuitive way. This exploitation of data, through panels and reports, also allows them to be shared by many users of the same company or organization. In this way, Directors General, Financial, Marketing, Administrative and Commercial, can have a single pass, information on their business in real time.
What types of sources and data can I integrate? Power BI can unify all the data of your organization and external, be in the cloud or locally. That is, the same can use information from an own Excel, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics NAV, SAP, MailChimp, Salesfoce, Facebook, Google Analytics, SQL Server ... or external data. For example, data from the National Institute of Statistics, the World Bank.... And a long etcetera. All that "shaker" of information sources, facilitates to have all the information of our company to our scope and in a single visualization. Come, that in a nutshell, we will be able to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, growths, opportunities of our company. In this way, we will save time to focus on what really matters and make the right decisions.
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What results will I get? Through Power BI Desktop users, without the need for great knowledge, will be able to create panels, graphs and reports "to the taste of the consumer".