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Introduction to Power BI Service

What is Power BI?

Before we define the Power BI Service we first need to know about Power BI. Top Management of any company always try to analysis the sales report. But it is very difficult for them to generate a report as like as a professional Executive generates and provide them. Microsoft designed a web based or pc based report generating platform for those business analysis in 2015. Named it, “Microsoft Power Business Intelligence” in short form Microsoft Power BI.

It is now very popular in worldwide as a business analysis tool. You can analysis many database files through Power BI from online or offline with just few clicks if your raw data is available from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, SQL etc.

 Image 1: Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft defines Power BI as “Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Whether your data is a simple Excel spreadsheet, or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses, Power BI lets you easily connect to your data sources, visualize (or discover) what’s important, and share that with anyone or everyone you want.”

They also added, “Power BI transforms your company's data into rich visuals for you to collect and organize so you can focus on what matters to you.”

Microsoft said about the Power BI in a sentence “Bring your data to Life.” I completely agree with this. It can provides database report depends how you customized at anytime, anywhere. It can be simple and fast for report generation.

 Image 2: How Power BI works


What is Power BI Service?

Power BI Service is a platform works in cloud. That means you don't need to install any other software in you PC. you can access your Power BI through web by login your own account. You can access your data anytime from anywhere.


What Add-ins are included in Power BI?

Power BI included 5 important commercial add-ins of Microsoft. These are:
  • PowerPivot
  • PowerView
  • PowerMap
  • PowerQuery

What are the platforms of Power BI?

There are few platforms of Power BI. These are:
  • Power BI Desktop
  • Power BI Mobile
  • Power BI Service

Image 3: Platforms of Power BI


Role Playing Power BI

It depends on your role in a project, or in a team, or in a research and development. Depends on how many users might take access on it, how many users will give you the raw data, how you share the reports etc. You can share a simple report by giving access to all users or you can share complex report and share nobody.

It also depends on which device will you use, it may be Mobile, or Web or Desktop.
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