Chapter 3

Describe the business value of Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based tool that allows users without coding skills or experience to create real-time graphical displays of data from a variety of sources and publish them to a cloud service that makes them accessible to virtually any desktop or mobile device. The objective of Power BI is to help users make their data more accessible by displaying it in graphs of various types, as shown in Figure 3-1, rather than as raw data. The designer of the display can thus interpret the data to highlight the information that is most important to the consumer.

A Power BI dashboard containing eight tiles, which display various graph types, including line, bar, column, stacked column, and pie graphs, as well as selected numerical data points

FIGURE 3-1 A Power BI dashboard ...

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