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Power BI
Power BI is a BI tool for small, big, and medium enterprises, or for developers from fresher level to experienced levels, it launched in 2014 but nowadays it's becoming the first choice of users. When you have big competitors in the Market like Tableau, and QuickSight, then you need to make something that can fade them in front of your product. Let's check why Power BI is becoming a favorite and the first choice of entrepreneurs and developers.
Trust
This is the first fact that comes to every organization and developer, the trust value of a product, especially for a newcomer. Power BI is a product launched in the market with one of the biggest IT companies, Microsoft. Yeah, you heard correctly, this product is powered by Microsoft, which is enough for anyone to get the trust product.
Cost
This is another fact where people make decisions, and move towards Power BI due to its unbeatable and attractive costing models. Power BI starts from Free Licensing to Premium Licenses.
There is a PBI Desktop version that is absolutely free for Power BI users, you can explore many BI features without paying any single penny, for which other products charge a lot.
The first paid license starts with a PBI Pro license, with many amazing features and cloud-based solutions, the current monthly charges are somewhere around $10 per user. It is for small enterprises.
Then it comes to the PBI Premium License, which is the license where you get all features from the PBI Pro license + advanced features like the embedded solution, AI features Paginated report, etc. This license I recommend this for big and medium enterprises with big data, the current monthly cost for this license is somewhere around $5000.
But if small enterprises want to use the PBI Premium License feature but can't afford the cost of that license, the Microsoft introduced PBI Premium Pay Per Person License for individuals and small enterprises, where you can explore all PBI Premium features by current monthly rates, $20 per user.
Separate Embedded
If you don't want to pay the cost of any premium license but you want to explore the embedded features of the premium license, no worries, Microsoft allows you to go with a PBI Pro license and pay separately for the embedded solution with Microsoft Azure, according to your usage.
Integration
Power BI allows you more than 100 data sources to integrate with Power BI directly, so your data source must be from 100+ data sources of PBI, but what if your data source is not available there, no worries, PBI allows you to integrate your data source with gateways.
Security and Encryption
One more important point comes to mind when we are choosing the technology or product, and that is security, with Microsoft Power BI your data is 100% secured and it can be encrypted as well manually as well, but by default, it gets encrypted by Microsoft.
Data Mart
Power BI allows you to get a database and save your data by data mart, once you uploaded the data, then through that, you can create many KPIs even through drag and drop or through any other formula. You can do SQL and you can make relations as well, this is also a convenient feature for confused users.
Dataflow
You have multiple data sources but you can't afford the data warehouse cost, and data volume isn't that big, in that case, Power BI gives you an amazing feature "Data Flow", with this feature you can centralize multiple data sources at a platform.
Easy Implementation
If it's not about the DAX or SQL, then you can easily create the report by yourself because power bi allows you to make the report or dashboards by "drag and drop", this is a really great feature as Microsoft's other products.
Visuals and UI
With Power BI you can create and customize many different charts, graphs, and various visuals, which can give you a great feel and understanding of the data and insights.
Add-ons
There is an Add-ons option in the Power BI, in case you are not okay with a big list of BI visuals, then you can add-on new visuals by add-ons feature of Power BI.
Descriptive Analytics
Based on the historical data you can create a descriptive report using the power bi tool, it allows you to see the insight in great analytical forms.
Real-Time Refreshment
Power BI allows you to schedule the data fetching on a daily, weekly, monthly, and hourly basis, plus in a few minutes and seconds (real-time). So this is an amazing feature of Power BI.
Report Forecasting
You heard about descriptive and real-time analytics in previous points, but what if you get a feature from Power BI to predict the analytics for upcoming days, weeks, and months. Yes, you heard right, Power BI provides you a report forecasting feature as a great beauty of this tool.
AI features
Artificial Intelligence, this term is very trendy in the market and corporate nowadays, because there are less human efforts and cost but more productivity and growth you can see, as well as smart work.
Power BI provides AI features in the tool, like report forecasting, searching for anything in a layman and simple language, etc.
DAX
You know you can make the report in Power BI by simply dragging and dropping options, but in case you are looking very complicated outcome, then you can make them through Data Analysis Expressions.
Workspace
If you are working in the same team, and you want to share your work or reports with your team, or maybe multiple people want to work on the same report, then Power BI allows you to share the workspace with your team.
Embedded Solution
Okay, you have the BI solution in your workspace, but now you want to integrate the dashboard without Power BI interface or branding because you want your own branding on your dashboards, In that case, power bi allows you to integrate or embed your power bi reports or dashboards with your software, tool, or solutions.
RLS
In the same workspace or via an embedded solution, there can be a problem, in an organization, anyone can see anyone's data, for example - In a hierarchy, a CEO must see all dashboards but an Operations Head should see only his respective department's data or reports.
Power BI provides you the Row Level of Security (RLS), where A department can't see B or C department's data.
Sharing and Export
You can share your report via workspace or emails, and you can export your report in different extensions like PDF, PPT, Word, etc. and you can present and share with the concerned person.
Paginated Report
If you want to capture the report through the power bi, then you can save the current screen report only but with the paginated report you can capture the complete page (toe to head).
Exporting the normal report can miss many things, but with a paginated report, you can capture all things from smallest to biggest in various formats.
Communication and Coordination
You can easily communicate and coordinate with your team while using Power BI, the tool allows you to communicate via commenting, emailing, chatting, etc. This feature makes it a team-efficient tool.
Device Friendly
Power BI is a device-friendly tool, where you can see the UI on the mobile app, web app, and tabs too. On every device, the UI would be different according to the comfort of users.
Smart Functions
Power BI gives you very smart functions to use, you can make many filters by date, time, etc., and you can get many views, like geographical views, etc.
Scalability
If you want to add more features, more columns, and more users to the report so this tool gives you the scope of scalability.
Storage
Power BI gives you storage capacity from 10GB/User to 100TB for aggregated reports, which depends on the license, and which licenses you are taking, other tools don't allow this storage with such a cost.
Power App
Though this isn't part of Power BI, while we are talking about Power BI so we must discuss the Power App.
A Power App allows you to capture and save the data in any customized format, and you can directly integrate with any data source and PBI, This tool gives you an amazing and smart data-capturing option. The current cost for the Power App is $5/user monthly.
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