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.
Now we can say ... Thanks Power BI !!
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".
And so, in a personalized way and with the data prepared (modeling), users will only have to choose and drag what type of graphs they want to appear in the panel or report. In addition, Power BI includes Q & A calls. That is, questions and answers with natural language. So just writing "Sales Madrid 2016", we can see what the sales of that period and region. What is incredible? And all this, ready to design, build and use the data, get up and running quickly.
What are the advantages of Power BI? There are many and see them all here, it would take a long time but, for example, Power Bi has a native application for mobile. This means that users have a phone (Smartphone) type Android or iOS, they will be able to download the Power BI app. With what will be able to "carry" their data and panels, to consult them when they need.
With Power BI we can visualize everything that interests us, for example:
How our cash flows go.
Number of business opportunities.
Number of offers,
Orders and their invoices.
To know in a map what autonomous communities, regions and countries where I have my clients, buy more my products and services.
How are the marketing campaigns?
Achievement of objectives ... In short, Microsoft Power BI will help us create and design rich visual objects from your company or business data, without major complications or artifice. "Drag and drop." It is the perfect tool if you want to monitor, know and decide about everything that concerns the company or business, in a very graphic and fun. Microsoft Power BI is licensed per month and consists of an online service. This means that we will not need special infrastructure, or make big investments, since everything is in the cloud. So its price is very low.
If we provide reports and analysis to our organization through Power BI, this solution will allow us to release all our creative and imaginative potential to achieve maximum productivity in our tasks. We
can say that with Power BI, we will be able to work differently to everything we know, changing our work routine thanks to this incredible solution.
Make Soft Technologies Does not this solution seem incredible? Surely you're wondering... How could I have lived without this before? Nothing, now that you know a little more about the technology that helps you to make your business smarter, you have to give Microsoft Power BI , right now.