Benefits of using Power BI

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI, which is part of Microsoft's business application platform Power Platform, is a business intelligence solution for data analysis and reporting that helps business users across company departments create reports that visualize and present business data.

Five benefits of Power BI

Power BI er et rigtig godt valg for enhver virksomhed, uanset størrelse og branche, der leder efter flere rapporterings- og analysefunktioner end der tilbydes i Excel.

With Power BI, Microsoft provides clear and user-friendly data visualization and analysis, which can be easily shared across your entire business and you gain deep insight into the company's operations and performance.

Here are just some of the undeniable benefits of Power BI that all types of businesses can benefit from.

1. Reasonably priced

Compared to other competing business intelligence and analysis tools, Power BI is relatively cheaper and more affordable, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. In addition, Power is licensed via a monthly license per user and a suitable version of Power BI you choose based on your business needs. With Power BI, you get a market-leading BI tool that is cost-effective and affordable.

2. Excellent data visualization

Power BI is known for its eye-catching, intuitive, user-friendly and interactive visualizations, which transform unmanageable business data into easy-to-understand and comprehensible charts, images and graphs that together provide insight into the company's business and processes. Visualizations are created and added to the reports using user-friendly and simple drag and drop functionality.

3. Access data anywhere and across devices

Power BI enables the company's employees to access data wherever they are, so they can work wherever and whenever needed. The reports can be accessed from both iOS, Android and Windows devices, making it possible to access them from any device. Power BI therefore offers all the flexibility that the modern employee needs.

4. Gather data from multiple sources

A big advantage of Power BI is that you can easily combine and connect data from all the company's different data sources, regardless of whether they are located on-premise or in the cloud, so that you can access, view and analyze all your business data from one central location. In this way, your data becomes comprehensible and accessible an can be easily shared with your colleagues.

5. Artificial Intelligence

The integration of artificial intelligence in Power BI enhances the analytical capabilities and provides access to a collection of trained AI models for machine learning (ML) that improves your data preparation. AI-based predictive analytics, with historical data and machine learning, can also help you predict future trends and risks.

Is Power BI better than Excel and why?

Compared to using Excel, with Power BI you will achieve a number of advantages, including:

• It is much easier to make visualizations and present data clearly.
• Data, reports and dashboards can be shared easily and securely with other employees.
• Access your reports via the mobile app, no matter when, where you are and from which device.
• With row-level security, you can limit users' access to subsets of data, thereby cutting off their access to other data in the dataset.
• With Power BI, you can handle larger data sets and you have the option of scheduling data updates.

This is why we love Power BI

It's no secret that we here at Active Business Solutions love Power BI. It is a fantastic tool for exploring data and for collaborating and sharing insights with other colleagues.

It's a user-friendly data analysis application that's easy to learn and get started with, and it's a fantastic tool to support data-driven decision-making. Therefore, it is not only our customers that we recommend using Power BI, we use it ourselves to create insight into our own business

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