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All About Microsoft Power BI-
Implementation, Pricing And Benefits-
What Is Power BI?

• Power BI is that the most powerful data analysis
  and presentation tool ever built, which
  integrates data from all of your sources, turns
  it into meaningful information, and presents as
  easy to grasp infographic formats Microsoft.
  Power BI Implementation brings your data to
  life, makes it easy to know , and guides your
  team towards actionable information.
• It transforms your data into stunning visuals and
  enables information sharing across devices and
  platforms.
• Visual UI to reinforce data analysis experience
  in both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Advanced collaborative reports and dashboards for
  nice teamwork.

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Why Power BI?

• Get self-service analytics at enterprise scale
• Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security
  risks of multiple solutions with an analytics
  platform that scales from individuals to the
  organization as an entire .
• Use smart tools for strong results
• Find and share meaningful insights with many data
  visualizations, built-in AI capabilities, tight
  Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data
  connectors.
• Help protect your analytics data
• Gain leading sensitivity classification and data
  loss prevention capabilities to assist keep your
  data secure and complianteven when its exported.

Power BI Features Advantages

• Power BI enables us consolidate data from varied
  sources, presenting it as one data set, and
  enables us understand the story behind that data
  through data visualization and actionable
  analytics. This visualization of knowledge and
  therefore the analytics are often shared with
  others as reports and dashboards within Power BI
  environment, or within apps. Power BI is out
  there as a service (SaaS), as a desktop
  application, also as a mobile app. the info
  sources are often local on-prem, or on cloud.
  These are often our own data sources, or 3rd
  party data sources. the massive number of
• knowledge connectors available make extraction of
  knowledge very simple.
• Powerful, yet simple
• Using Power BI is as simple because it can get
  Get data - Create Relationships - Create Reports
  Dashboards - Publish to share.

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• Rapid star
• You can start with exploring the facility of
  Power BI almost instantaneously, and keep
  building your applications as your needs evolve.
  there is a lot you'll do with the in-built out-
  of-the-box functionalities.
• Bring together all your data
• No matter where the info relevant to your
  business is - Excel sheets on your desktop, ERP/
  CRM databases on-prem, point solution
  applications within your organization, data
  sources on cloud, or 3rd party data that's
  relevant to you - Power BI gives you the
  connectors and tools to tug altogether the info
  that's relevant to you, and consider it during a
  meaningful manner.
• Interactive, with Natural Language capabilities
• Ask for the info view you would like , and Power
  BI will realign the info visualization to
  present to you what you would like .
• Updated, Real time
• If your data sources are in cloud, Power BI
  presents to you data visualization that's real
  time. For the on-prem data, synching are often
  done periodically.
• Get self-service analytics at enterprise scale
• Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security
  risks of multiple solutions with an analytics
  platform that scales from individuals to the
  organization as an entire .
• Use smart tools for strong results
• Find and share meaningful insights with many data
  visualizations, built-in AI capabilities, tight
  Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data
  connectors.
• Help protect your analytics data

Microsoft Power BI FAQ
1- What is Microsoft Power BI? Power BI is the
most powerful data analysis and presentation tool
ever built, which integrates data from all your
sources, turns it into meaningful information,
and presents as easy to
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• comprehend infographic formats. Power BI brings
  your data to life, makes it easy to understand,
  and guides your team towards actionable
  information.
• What is the Microsoft Power BI Service?
• Power BI is available as a desktop application
  (Power BI Desktop), as mobile apps, or as an
  online service. The Power BI Online - which is
  available as SaaS is also known as Power BI
  Service.
• What is a Power BI business user?
• Power BI Service users can either have free
  licenses, or a Pro license. If you are a Power BI
  Business User, you are probably using a free
  license that is managed by your Power BI tenant
  administrator. If your organization has a Power
  BI Premium subscription, the users with
  permission can store content in dedicated
  capacity. Other people, both inside and outside
  the organization, can view this content without
  the need to have a Power BI Pro license. Premium
  enables distribution of content by Pro users,
  which can be viewed by others, without having
  the need for a Pro license. In the Premium
  workspaces, users can be assigned the roles as -
  Viewer, Contributor, Member and Administrator.
• What is the difference between Power BI Pro and
  Power BI Premium?
• What you can do in Power BI Service depends on 3
  things - the type of license subscription,
  content storage location, and roles permission
  assigned. A Power BI Pro license user can
  publish content to other workspaces, share
  dashboards, subscribe to dashboards reports,
  and share with users who have a Pro license. A
  Power BI (free) user can only use Power BI
  service to connect to data and create reports
  dashboards in My Workspace. They can't share
  content with others or publish content to other
  workspaces. If however users are parts of an
  organization that has subscribed to Power BI
  Premium, the Pro license users can distribute
  content even to users with a free license, The
  Power BI (free) users within such an
  organization can consume content shared with
  them.
• What is Power BI Desktop?
• The Power BI desktop is an application that you
  install on your local desktop. This enables you
  to connect, transform, and visualize data. Power
  BI Desktop is typically used by Analysts.
• Does Power BI support mobile devices?
• Yes, Power BI mobile apps are available for all
  platforms - Android, iOS and Windows.

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• Depending on the platform you are using, you can
  go to the respective app store (Google Apple
  Windows) and download the Power BI app. You can
  also download the Power BI desktop.
• What browsers does Power BI Support?
• Power BI is supported on most of the common
  browsers. This includes Chrome and the Microsoft
  Edge.
• Why is it worth implementing Power BI?
• If you want your business decisions to be driven
  by your business data, and if you want to learn
  from the history, there is nothing more powerful
  than Power BI to give you a view to your
  business history and enable you to predict.
• What does Power BI do?
• Power BI is a Business Intelligence and Data
  Visualization tool. It enables you to connect to
  various data sources, and get insights to your
  business data - visually.
• Why do people use Power BI?
• Business users use Power BI as a decision support
  system. Power BI gives you the power to learn
  from your business data, and have the power to
  take informed business decisions.
• Who uses Power BI?
• Power BI is typically used by business users. Any
  person in the organization, who needs to either
  analyze, or plan will find a need for Power BI.
• What components make up Power BI?
• The three components of Power BI are - Power BI
  Service, Power BI Desktop and Power BI mobile
  apps.

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• Power BI Report Server is an on-premise report
  server that has a web portal where reports and
  KPIs can be displayed. Users can access these
  reports either on the portal, or through their
  mobile apps.
• What is Power BI Embedded?
• Power BI embed is a Microsoft Azure Service that
  enables developers and ISVs to quickly embed
  visual reports and dashboards into an
  application. This is a metered service.
• What is Power BI Mobile?
• Power BI Mobile are the apps that can be
  downloaded on different mobile devices from
  their respective app stores.
• Is Power BI available on-premises?
• Yes, Power BI has components like the Power BI
  Desktop, which are available on-premise.
• Does Power BI integrate with other Microsoft's
  products?
• Yes, most certainly. Power BI is built to connect
  to vast sources of data. These of course include
  all Microsoft products, but also a large number
  of 3rd party products.
• Can Power BI be customize?
• Yes, Power BI developers can customize Power BI
  to build applications for specific needs of an
  organization.
• Can I use Power BI for budgeting and forecasting?

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• If you want to take data driven decision for your
  business then you must have Power BI to help you
  do that. Without the support of actual business
  data insights, your decisions would lack the
  needed foundation and strength.
• How secured is Power BI?
• Power BI on-prem will be as secure as your
  on-prem infrastructure. If you are using Power BI
  Service, then Microsoft Azure ensures absolutely
  top grade security mechanisms for your
  enterprise data.
• How do I get live data on Power BI?
• If your data sources are in cloud, e.g. Azure,
  Power BI automatically keeps updating reports
  and dashboards as the data online changes. For
  on-prem data sources, however, the data synch
  needs to be periodically triggered.
• How is Microsoft Power BI different from other BI
  tools?
• While Power BI by itself is best in class tool,
  it's biggest strength comes from the associated
  Microsoft Power Platform stack that it is a part
  of. The various components of Power Platform -
  Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate Power
  Virtual Agents - together enable you to achieve
  much more than any single product would.
• How to plan a Power BI enterprise deployment?
• Power Platform Enterprise deployment would
  usually require you to subscribe to a Premium
  subscription. You will have to analyze the types
  of users within the organization, identify the
  roles and permissions they need, and based on
  this identify the types of licenses they
  require. The Power BI deployment planning doesn't
  have to be perfect the first time. You can make
  any needed modifications, as you learn more.
• Is it necessary to consult an expert for Power BI
  Implementation?
• Even though Power BI is a self service tool,
  where users can design their own reports and
  dashboards, it is always important to engage a
  professional organization for undertaking an
  Enterprise project. This enables you to maximize
  what you get from your investments. Some of your
  needs might require customization, and it's
  always advisable to engage a professional
  services company for this purpose.