Business intelligence (BI) solutions from Microsoft help any organisation transform data into intelligent, easy-to-understand visualisations that are surfaced wherever decisions are made.
Offer everyone in your organisation – from business analysts and BI professionals to business users – powerful, self-service analytical and enterprise BI tools that drive better, faster decision making. Pin your most relevant content, use the Power BI mobile app and embed reports in collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint so that data is there to support your decisions.
Prepare and model data with ease through built-in automation and intelligence. Bring your data to life through hundreds of data visualisations, AI-powered features and branding options so that your report fits your users. Distribute findings to team members inside and outside your organisation so that everyone works off the same information.
Create amazing data-exploration experiences that look and work like the other Microsoft technologies you use every day so that you can get started quickly. Use their library of data connectors to access popular cloud and on-premises sources such as Excel, SharePoint, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365 and Salesforce, and add others.
Business intelligence systems use your most valuable business data and require stringent security and privacy capabilities. Apply protection to your business intelligence data to help prevent data loss. Better safeguard your data so that it meets the compliance standards and certifications for your industry, while using national clouds to meet local regulations on service delivery, data residency, access and control.
Azure is Microsoft’s answer to the cloud. It’s a powerful collection of networking infrastructure and servers which run a set of specialist applications, or apps, that allows businesses to run bespoke applications from a virtual machine standpoint and develop custom web applications that easily integrate with SharePoint.
Microsoft Azure provides more than 200 services across 18 different categories, including computing, networking, storage, migration, mobile, analytics, containers, artificial intelligence and other machine learning apps, integration, developer tools, security, databases and web services.
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen. Today, Microsoft is one of the world’s largest personal computer software companies.
Paul Allen passed away in 2018. In 2020, Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board. At the time he owned roughly 1% of the software and computing company’s shares. Currently, the largest stakeholder is The Vanguard Group Inc. which owns 8.01% of shares.
Formerly known as Windows Azure, Microsoft Azure provides a range of cloud-centric services to businesses all over the world. Services include data analytics and transformation, storage and networking.
At its core, Microsoft Azure is a public cloud-centric computing platform. Solutions include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) that can be used for a variety of different services including analytics, virtual computing and more. It can also be used to replace or supplement your in-house servers.
Power BI is a collection of software services and apps that work together to transform seemingly unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive and interactive insights for your business.
Power BI also lets you connect, visualise and unearth your data sources and show what’s important, relevant and timely. Data can be presented in an Excel spreadsheet or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses.
Microsoft Azure certifications can help you secure highly credible, cloud-centric roles such as cloud administrator, developer, security engineer, AI engineer, data engineer, solutions architect and DevOps engineer. The certification essentially validates your knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure, as well as demonstrates a fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, along with Azure services, including workloads, security, privacy, pricing and support.
Data is the lifeblood of the modern world, and we’re generating more of it than ever.
However, amassing mountains of information isn’t much use unless businesses are able to make sense of it. That’s where Microsoft Power BI comes in.
Microsoft Power BI is the name given for an assortment of cloud-centric apps, solutions and services that can help businesses collate, manage and analyse data insights from a variety of sources, through a single, accessible user-friendly interface.
Microsoft Power BI works by pulling data together and processing it – transforming it into intelligible insights using visually compelling charts and graphs. As a result, Power BI allows users to generate and share clear and useful snapshots of their data. Power BI can also connect to a range of data sources, from basic Excel spreadsheets to databases, and cloud-based and on-premise apps and digital services.
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A collection of integrated cloud services, Microsoft Azure assists businesses in creating a secure, reliable cloud infrastructure that works across […]