Sunday, February 23, 2014

Introduction to Power BI


Power BI for Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud-based business intelligence (BI) solution that works from within Excel and Office 365 to analyse and visualize data in a self-service way

Components of Power BI:
Excel 2013:
    •Power Query – easily connect to data from public and corporate                                         datasources, transform data and share queries
    •Power Pivot  – create a sophisticated Data Model directly in Excel
    •Power View – create reports and analytical views with interactive data                                visualizations
    •Power Map – visual tool for geospatially based data analysis
   
Office 365:
    •Power BI Sites – share, view, and interact with reports
    Power BI Q&A – use queries to find, explore, and report over your data
    •Power BI Windows APP– view reports on the go, with the Power BI app