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Microsoft Power BI
What Is Microsoft Power BI?
Power BI can help you connect your data into a single source of truth, uncover powerful insights from this data, and translate them into impact across your organization. Connect data across clouds, databases, and engines to OneLake to create a single place to manage and analyze your data while minimizing data duplication and movement. Turn your data into visuals with advanced data-analysis tools, AI capabilities, and a user-friendly report-creation tool. Turn these insights into impact and help
Who Uses Microsoft Power BI?
Power BI is used by developers, analysts, IT, and other businesses to visualize and analyze data on a unified interface.
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Reviews of Microsoft Power BI
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Comments: I use to make charts to understand volumes, timelines and get important data to conduct te manegement of proje
Pros:
The easy way to build visible smart charts, starting from the excel file.
Cons:
The update function with excel files could be easier.
Great for data visualization
Comments: We use it for data visualization and it has been meeting our needs thus far. We haven't worked with huge data sets, so can't really comment on that.
Pros:
While there is certainly a learning curve, the product is relatively easy to use once you get the hang of it. I like how you can slice & dice information for easy and interactive visuals.
Cons:
While there is minimal coding, you do need some basic skills.
Creating and Using PowerBI Reports Daily
Pros:
It is easy to link with existing datasets in the Microsoft ecosystem and external databases such as SQL servers. Reports can be customized to display information however you want to.
Cons:
it can be very confusing and difficult to have everything displayed correctly. there are bugs that can cause the dataset tables to not show information accurately
Power Bi is a god send
Comments: Very positive, we are planning on migrating all of our reports back onto power BI after some issues we have had with the google suite. Learning it was very simple given some basic prior knowledge but more advanced knowledge is required to access the full extent of the application.
Pros:
I love power query and the many options which are available for report customization. I really like how intuitive it all was for me especially merging complex data sets. The DAX code allows complex functions when processing data to divine advanced insights.
Cons:
My least favourite thing about power bi is definitely the formatting options. In terms of making things the same size and auto aligning correctly it can sometimes be quite a hassle.
Power BI Review
Comments: I use Power BI to assess real time and historical performance of my team. It helps me create a picture of how I can help Mt team get even better at what they do.
Pros:
I can see the performance of my team easily, live and historical
Cons:
No real cons although it took me a little while to get used to
