What Power BI does?

For example, you can pull in data from Excel spreadsheets, on-premise data sources, and SQL databases. You can also automatically grab data from your favorite cloud services like Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Zendesk, Facebook, and more. Microsoft is continually rolling out direct integrations with other popular cloud services to make it even easier to get all your data straight into Power BI.

Once you have the data you need, it should then provide you with the information required to make smarter and faster business decisions. That’s where Power BI Q&A comes in.

Simply type in a question about your data (as you would with Google) and it immediately serves up a response in the form of an interactive chart or graph

For example, want to know this year’s sales compared to last years sales by month? No problem!

Power BI Visuals – Ask a Question About Your Data

Power BI Tools Keep You Focused On The Important Metrics.

Gathering insights from your data is a breeze with Power BI’s simple drag-and-drop user experience. You can quickly find the insights you are looking for and visualize them in beautiful, interactive reports.

Once you have a report, save it to your personal dashboard. Here, you can quickly see the charts and graphs with the data and metrics that are most important to you and your business.

As I previously mentioned, you can also embed reports in SharePoint Online so that everyone (with access and the correct permissions) can view the report.

Power BI Visuals – Metrics Dashboard Example in SharePoint

Power BI Gives You The Insight To Stay On Top Of Opportunities And Risks.

Capitalizing on opportunities and minimizing risks are important to sustain business growth (of course). Power BI offers predictive forecasting to help you visualize future business performance (such as potential and predicted sales and risks) while providing more efficient data-driven decision-making opportunities.

Power BI Visuals – Dashboard Example

With Power BI consulting and development services from HingePoint, you can take the blindfold off, and see your data organized visually on one screen (instead of scattered across spreadsheets, software, and organizations). Interested in seeing how Microsoft Power BI can help your business?