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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.
Your data may be an 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 and discover what’s important, and share that with anyone or everyone you want.
Power BI can be simple and fast—capable of creating quick insights from an Excel spreadsheet or a local database. But Power BI is also robust and enterprise-grade, ready for extensive modeling and real-time analytics, as well as custom development. It can be your personal report and visualization tool, or serve as the analytics and decision engine for group projects, divisions, or entire corporations.
The Parts of Power BI
Power BI consists of several elements designed to let people create, share, and consume business insights in the way that serves them, or their role, most effectively.
Power BI Desktop
A Windows desktop application for data connection, transformation, modeling, and rich report creation.
Power BI Service
An online SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for publishing, sharing, and managing reports and dashboards.
Power BI Mobile Apps
Available for Windows, iOS, and Android devices to view and interact with reports on the go.
Power BI Report Server
Allows you to publish Power BI reports to an on-premises report server after creating them in Power BI Desktop.
The first three elements—Power BI Desktop, the service, and mobile apps—are designed to let people create, share, and consume business insights effectively.
Example Data and Metrics
Some example metrics and labels you might see in Power BI dashboards include:
This Year’s Sales
$22M
This Year’s Sales Variance %
Trackable Metric
New Stores Opened This Year
10
Sales Over/Under Goal
$2M
Power BI Desktop
Component/Label
Power BI Service
Component/Label
Power BI Mobile
Component/Label
Last Year’s Sales
Trackable Metric
Sales Per Sq Ft
Trackable Metric
Store Sales Target
Trackable Metric
These are illustrative examples of metrics and labels. Power BI can be customized to track specific KPIs unique to your business goals.
The Flow of Work in Power BI
A common flow of work in Power BI includes the following steps:
Connecting to Data Sources
Start by connecting to your data sources and building a report in Power BI Desktop.
Publishing Reports
Publish the report from Power BI Desktop to the Power BI service.
Sharing and Consuming
Share the report so end-users in the service and on mobile devices can view and interact with it.
This workflow demonstrates how the three main Power BI elements complement one another. If you’re not ready to move to the cloud and want to keep your reports behind a corporate firewall, Power BI offers on-premises solutions as well.
On-Premise Reporting with Power BI Report Server
Create, deploy, and manage Power BI, mobile, and paginated reports on-premises with the range of ready-to-use tools and services that Power BI Report Server provides.
Power BI Report Server is a solution that you deploy behind your firewall and then deliver your reports to the right users in different ways—whether that’s viewing them in a web browser, on a mobile device, or as an email.
Because Power BI Report Server is compatible with Power BI in the cloud, you can move to the cloud when you're ready.
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