2. What is Power BI?
• Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your
organization. Connect to hundreds of data sources, simplify data prep, and drive ad hoc analysis
• Microsoft Power BI converts company’s data into very attractive and comprehensible visuals,
making it easy for you and your company gather information, organize and devise effective
business strategies. The system is created so that you stay in the know, to identify trends as they
occur, and to steer your business towards success. The platform also helps users track their
business and derive answers fast via robust and comprehensive dashboards that are available on
every device.
• Link development integrate Power BI capabilities with world-leading GIS and map solutions,
such as Bing and esri, to create color-coded, interactive geo-dashboards that create a bird's eye
view of your organization performance across multiple locations and branches
3. Microsoft Power BI Benefits
These are the benefits commonly associated to using Microsoft Power BI:
• 1- Unlimited access to on-premise and in-cloud data
• 2- Interactive and stunning visualizations you can share with wide audiences
• 3-Simplified answers to complex questions
• 4- Immediate and fruitful collaboration
• 5-Access to a robust collection of learning materials
4. What powers Power BI in Office 365?
• Power BI for Office 365 is a new self-service business intelligence (BI) offering
enabling businesses to gain insights from their data in powerful new ways
within Excel and Office 365. Customers now have the ability to easily search,
discover and access data inside and outside of their organization and, with just
a few clicks, shape and transform that data. They can also analyze and create
stunning interactive visualizations that uncover hidden insights to share and
collaborate from virtually anywhere, on nearly any device.
5. Power BI Security
• The Power BI service is built on Azure, which is Microsoft’s cloud computing
infrastructure and platform.
• The Power BI service architecture is based on two clusters – the Web Front End (WFE)
cluster and the Back End cluster
6. Market Position
• Market Position Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader, for the ninth consecutive year,
in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. For the first time,
Microsoft is placed furthest in vision within the Leaders quadrant.
