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Making Sense of Your Data with Microsoft

Connect to and visualise any data using the unified, scalable MS Power BI platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI) that’s easy to use and helps you gain deeper data insight.

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MS Power BI

Create amazing data experiences

Easily connect to, model, and visualise your data, creating memorable reports personalised with your KPIs and brand. Get fast, AI-powered answers to your business questions—even when asking with conversational language.

Gain insight from your largest BI deployments

Make the most of your big data investments by connecting to all your data sources with the scale to analyse, share, and promote insights across your organisation while maintaining data accuracy, consistency, and security.

Make decisions with confidence

Work together easily on the same data, collaborate on reports, and share insights across popular Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Teams and Excel—empowering everyone in your organisation to quickly make data-driven decisions that drive strategic actions.

Unify self-service and enterprise analytics

Meet both your self-service and enterprise data analytics needs on a single platform. Access powerful semantic models, an application lifecycle management (ALM) toolkit, an open connectivity framework, and fixed-layout, pixel-perfect paginated reports.

Create deeper, more helpful insights

Turn your data into a competitive advantage by using Power BI and Azure together to connect, combine, and analyse your entire data estate.

Find answers fast with industry-leading AI

Take advantage of the latest advances in Microsoft AI to help non-data scientists prepare data, build machine learning models, and find insights quickly from both structured and unstructured data, including text and images.

Improve publishing efficiency and accuracy of BI content

Quickly identify differences and move content from development and testing to production with confidence using the simple visual cues in deployment pipelines.

Get unparalleled Excel interoperation

Anyone who’s familiar with Microsoft 365 can easily connect Excel queries, data models, and reports to Power BI Dashboards—helping to quickly gather, analyse, publish, and share Excel business data in new ways.

Turn insights into action

Go from data to insights and insights to action with Microsoft Power Platform—combining Power BI with Power Apps and Power Automate to easily build business applications and automate workflows

Improve Efficiency and Accuracy

Quickly identify differences and move content from development and testing to production with confidence using the simple visual cues in deployment pipelines.

Get Unparalleled Interoperation within Microsoft Systems

Anyone who’s familiar with Microsoft 365 can easily connect Excel queries, data models and reports to Power BI Dashboards—helping to quickly gather, analyse, publish and share Excel business data in new ways.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a technology-driven business intelligence tool most commonly used in the analysis and visualisation of raw data for the purpose of presenting actionable information. The platform combines business analytics and data visualisation to assist large and small businesses alike in making informed, data-driven decisions.

Is Power BI part of Microsoft 365?

Power BI Pro is included in both the Office 365 E5 or M365 E5 license packages. However, you do not need Microsoft 365 to use the platform.

What is Microsoft Power BI Pro?

Microsoft Power BI Pro allows users to read, analyse and interact with reports and dashboards others have published on the platform. The biggest difference between Power BI and Power BI Pro is the ability to create and share content with other members of your team. Users can publish content to app workspaces, subscribe to reports and dashboards and share content with other users.

What is Microsoft Power BI used for?

Microsoft Power BI is used for analysing and visualising data. The platform is essentially a collection of apps, connectors and software services that work together to transform seemingly unrelated sources of information into visually immersive, coherent and interactive actionable insights.

Is Microsoft Power BI a Microsoft Application?

Power BI is a part of the Microsoft Power Platform. The software is an interactive data visualisation tool developed by Microsoft for the purpose of making data and information more accessible through visually immersive, actionable insights.

How to get a Microsoft Power BI Certification?

Gaining your Microsoft Power BI certification is important because it confirms you know how to use the software properly, meaning you can use the platform to manage reports and dashboards. It also shows you know how to share and distribute content on the platform, as well as create and publish paginated reports to a workspace.

Certification can be obtained through Microsoft itself, as well as through an official training provider such as DSCallards. For more information about gaining Microsoft certifications, get in touch with our team today. We would be delighted to assist you.

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