PowerBI - BI Tool - Why Power BI

Power BI is the Business Intelligence tool (Power BI Desktop and Power BI Services) by the Microsoft; Currently Market leaders are Tableau and QlikView. But you will see MS-Power BI are very user friendly and easy to learn tool. Note that Power BI Desktop is for offline development and Power BI Services is to share the reports/dashboards online. 

Why Power BI?

There are many reason to select the Power BI; but below are mention some of them.

• Brand:- This is the Business Intelligence tool provided by Top Brand of Computer/IT; that is Microsoft.(Name is enough).

• Easy to Use:- Not only user friendly but easy to use; even beginner can start this after having look on online forum or training videos.

• Cost:- Cost is the major factor for Business Intelligence tool as many people/industry avoid this due to high cost. But the MS-PowerBI is comes with 10 time less than Market leader like Tableau or QlikView. (100$ per year approx)

• Community:- Pleasure news is the community creation by Microsoft where you will find many Experts/developers are ready to give you answer. http://community.powerbi.com You will find there are 2-3 posts per minute in community.

• Security:- This provides good security features as they allow to access only for organizational e-Mail account. (sorry Gmail,Yahoo users ). You can share with only for the organizational accounts. (note you can create Public link with limited features)

• Cloud Based:- Power BI is SaaS (Software As A Service) , even you can design and access your reports and design same from anywhere, where Internet network connectivity available.(this saves lot of physical hardware investment)

• Mobile Friendly:- Unlike many another tool, no need to design separately for the Mobile phone devices. Easily convert functionality available for the Smart phone devices.

• Data Access:- You can import Data set not only from Microsoft but another providers too like Oracle,MySQL,From website,IBM DB2, SAP Hana, Google Big Query and lot more.

Below is the screen for Power BI Desktop, where you can get idea. explains chart for India's population state wise for some states.   ↓

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