{"id":13654,"date":"2022-06-22T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:43:50","slug":"what-is-power-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/data-analytics\/what-is-power-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Power BI?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With <\/span>more than five million Power BI subscribers<\/span><\/a> (as well as many more users on the free Desktop version) the service\u2019s rapid growth and lengthy list of specialized certifications serve to underline how the ability to use Power BI is a valuable skillset for those seeking to enter data analytics and machine learning. But what is Power BI?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this post, we\u2019ll provide an in-depth overview of Microsoft\u2019s Power BI, a suite of business analytics tools that enables the quick creation of dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll take a look at the different tiers of Power BI and the user cases they each target, its main features, a walkthrough of how data analysts might best leverage the platform, its limitations, and alternate tools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What is Power BI?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. What are the main features of Power BI?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. How is Power BI used by data analysts?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Limitations & alternatives\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Key takeaways<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. What is Power BI?<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Power BI refers to a suite of business analytics tools by Microsoft for both individuals and enterprise users.<\/span><\/p>\n

    You might have encountered tutorials or demos online describing how it is a beginner-friendly, no-code solution with its drag-and-drop approach to creating dashboards and visualizations. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Power BI remains one of the more popular BI tools among analysts as you can create self-service dashboards with enterprise-grade features such as built-in authentication, connection to data sources, and resource scaling. It also encompasses a mobile app version for Windows, iOS and Android operating systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Power BI is offered at three tiers. Power BI Desktop is free to download and use, with less functionality than the paid cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions aimed at enterprise users, Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium. Power BI Pro is licensed per user at $120 a year, while Power BI Premium is licensed per cloud compute and storage, starting at $5,000 a month. The Pro and Premium options allow users to publish and access dashboards to the Power BI cloud service, and access reports or visualizations published by other licensed users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    As Power BI is a Microsoft product, existing fans of Microsoft products will appreciate that it is well-integrated within the Microsoft ecosystem of tools, including Teams, Active Directory, and Azure Cloud Computing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Check out the following video for examples of other tools data analysts use in the data analytics process:<\/p>\n