About Microsoft Power BI
Introduction 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. Produce beautiful reports, then publish them for your organization to consume on the web and across mobile devices. Everyone can create personalized dashboards with a unique, 360-degree view of their business. And scale across the enterprise, with governance and security built-in.
What is Power BI? 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.
The parts of Power BI
Basic building blocks Visualizations – a visual representation of data, sometimes just called visuals Datasets – a collection of data that Power BI uses to create visualizations Reports – a collection of visuals from a dataset, spanning one or more pages Dashboards – a single page collection of visuals, built from a report Tiles – a single visualization found in a report or dashboard
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