So, Do You Need Microsoft Power BI?

MICROSOFT POWER BI

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From data to insights in minutes

Real time, not some time

Waiting for the IT team to produce this week's reports is finished. View reports whenever you want

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No programming, no waiting for report building. Simple drag and drop report design

All your data

Get a full picture by using data from every source you need. CRM, Excel, finance, on site databases, you name it…

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Build reports using real language, not a programming language

Available anywhere

With mobile apps for iOS and Android, you can access all your data wherever you are.

Ready out of the box

A simple interface and templated dashboards mean it's easy to start using Power BI

What is Microsoft Power BI?

Questions

What is Power BI used for?

Power BI is Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (BI) software. Power BI is used to make sense of complex business data. A common use is to create a live dashboard of personalised business intelligence data.

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Is Excel better than Power BI?

For most uses beyond simple calculations and basic charts, Power BI is

Easier to use
Faster
Has a greater range of visualisations
More powerful

than Excel.

If you still need the familiarity of Excel, you can always use Power Bi with Excel

Is Power BI free?

Power BI has a fully featured free version – PowerBI desktop. Microsoft offer free trials of their two chargeable products – Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium. Also if you have a qualifying Office 365 product, you’ll get Power Bi for free

Can Power BI replace Excel?

Power BI isn’t replacing Excel anytime soon. Excel remains the business application of choice for many business, and performs complex tasks such as queries and pivot tables with ease. Power BI isn’t designed to replace Excel, rather than complement is for large scale, real time data visualisations.