Power BI
What is Power BI?
Rely on one of the largest and fastest-growing business intelligence clouds
Build your business on secure data analytics
Unify self-service and enterprise analytics
Create deeper, more helpful insights
Get unparalleled Excel interoperation
Stream analytics in real time
Why Microsoft Power BI?
Rely on one of the largest and fastest-growing business intelligence clouds.
Create and share interactive data visualizations across global data centers, including national clouds to meet your compliance and regulation needs.
The Parts of Power BI
Power BI consists of several elements that all work together, starting with these three basics:
- A Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop.
- An online SaaS (Software as a Service) service called the Power BI service.
- Power BI mobile apps for Windows, iOS, and Android devices.
These three elements—Power BI Desktop, the service, and the mobile apps—are designed to let you create, share, and consume business insights in the way that serves you and your role most effectively.
Beyond those three, Power BI also features two other elements:
- Power BI Report Builder, for creating paginated reports to share.
- Power BI Report Server, an on-premises report server where you can publish your Power BI reports, after creating them in Power BI Desktop.
The Benefits of Power BI
Rely on one of the largest and fastest-growing business intelligence clouds
Trust a Recognized Leader
Build your Business on Secure Data Analytics
- Apply sensitivity labels to Power BI data using Microsoft Information Protection in the familiar Microsoft 365 experience.
- Extend data loss prevention and governance to Power BI users—including report sharing—with Microsoft Cloud App Security.
- Better meet privacy and regulatory requirements with oversight of sensitive data through bring your own key (BYOK).
- Better protect your organizational data by using Power BI security with service tags, Azure Private Link, and Azure Virtual Network.
Put BI in Everyone’s Hands Economically
Create a data-driven culture across your organization by offering everyone BI and analytics capabilities with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Pro
Get Rapid, User-Driven Innovation
Receive weekly and monthly updates that improve Power BI features and capabilities—based on thousands of ideas submitted annually from a community of more than half a million members worldwide.
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 analyze 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.
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, analyze, 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.
Stream Analytics in Real-Time
Know what’s happening now, not just in the past. From factory sensors to social media sources, get access to real-time analytics so you’re always ready to make timely decisions.