May 14, 2020
4 min readThe Reasons You Need MS Power BI (Part II)
CONTINUE WITH POWER BI
In the previous article, we gave you a piece of information about Power BI, its features, and what benefits it might bring to your company. In this article, we will proceed to examine this cloud-based Microsoft service.
Let‘s get back to Power BI and the business issues it manages
Share the reports
All Power BI reports, dashboards, and data can be shared with other colleagues and business users in the organization.
To share reports:
- use Power BI Service and publish reports
- create groups and assign specific rights to different users to share reports
- use Power BI mobile apps to access dashboards and report
You can share reports from any location of Power BI Service, either your workspace, team workspace or elsewhere.
In Power BI workspaces, teams come together to share the ownership and management of their dashboards, reports, datasets, and workbooks. You can organize Power BI users’ workspaces based on organizational structures or create them for specific projects.Make changes in the reports
Power BI facilitates the search, tracking, comparing, and analysis of operational information. You can receive relevant data in Power BI reports online right here and right now due to the automatic information update in the Power BI cloud.
To monitor and analyze business management parameters, you can develop and model formulas, metrics, indicators, and KPIs; and create interactive visualizations of all metrics, KPIs, and tables in graphical forms that you can easily track, compare, and analyze.
The Q&A functionality is a unique feature of Power BI that allows asking any question in natural language to get the required data and information. Power BI has cognitive engines that search for the requested data, visualization, or a part of the report and return the found data.
Use data to make strategic and operative decisions
The close benefit of Power BI is its implementation which requires minimal IT engineering or involvement. The only requirement - sign up and download. Gain insights, evaluate organizational business data, and analyze trends with Power BI. With built-in time intelligence features, it only takes seconds to view vast amounts of data. You can view data by various dimensions and attributes, including date-time dimensions.
Data protection
Power BI can integrate with Microsoft Information Protection and Microsoft Cloud App Security to provide greater control and visibility over sensitive data in Power BI.
Power BI will act as your visualization and reporting tool, and if necessary, it will serve as a subsystem of analytics for group projects, departments, or entire organizations.
Set open access to the platform to all colleagues or only to those whom you consider necessary. Access to indicators can be configured for the internal work of employees or provided for analysis to external partners, depending on your decision and the report content. Using Row Level Security, it is possible to configure the display of data at the level of table records.
Get a notification when KPI values are reached
Power BI alerts are very critical for data-driven organizations. It enables users to immediately take action and know when exactly business conditions have changed. Dashboards published in the Power BI service can be configured to send alerts when the underlying data changes have met the limit conditions set on the gauge, KPI, and card visualizations.
These are humble 10 reasons why we consider Power BI a very potential cloud-based business intelligence service for data analysis and visualization. Remember that depending on your needs, Power BI tools can be both simple and understandable and also can turn into a serious and pedantic assistant generating serious and in-depth data analysis under the necessary criteria.
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