new Power BI from Microsoft – an overview
Microsoft has recently launched the new Power BI as an independent, cloud based service, separate from the previous Power BI for Office 365. The new Power BI allows you to transform your business data into high-end visuals, so that you can quickly find the most relevant data and share it and collaborate with your employees or clients in an organized way.
The new Power BI, offered as an online service, enables you to quickly find out and connect to the data that is most relevant to your business. The service also includes Power BI Desktop, an advanced tool to transform data, generate reports, visualize information, and post it on Power BI conveniently. You can also access the data from your mobile phones and tablets.
If you have already been using Power BI for Office 365 and now want to upgrade to the new Power BI, you first need to know the procedure for migrating to the new, cloud-based version. As part of your preparation, consider downloading the free migration guide available online.
This article gives you a general idea about the new Power BI, touching upon the basics of its important features, while also providing you links to relevant sources where you can find further details about every feature.
new Power BI – the new experience
The new Power BI operates with an interactive dashboard that you can create and update collating data from a wide variety of information sources. The three main features of the new Power BI are as follows;
Dashboards
Reports
Datasets
The new Power BI helps keep you updated with the most relevant and up-to-date data through a highly functional dashboard. This enables you to view important information about your business from a single point. For instance, you can view the tiles providing the latest and most relevant business data on the dashboard. These tiles are created on the basis of the latest reports on different aspects of your business. If you want, you can even access the source report, selecting a tile of your choice.
Power BI Desktop
The Power BI Desktop provides you a user-friendly report authoring experience and a wide variety of data visualization options. The robust report authoring tool in the Power BI Desktop allows you to collate information from a wide variety of sources, with the use of Power BI Desktop's Query Editor. You can also create visually powerful reports in the Power BI Desktop with the data you collated using the Query Editor. Finally, after you create a report, you can publish it to Power BI conveniently.
Moreover, with Power BI Mobile, you can get access to your important business data from your mobile devices. This enables you to use your data round the clock from almost everywhere.
Another very significant feature of the new Power BI is the Microsoft Power BI Gateway. This feature helps you make sure that your data is linked to the onsite information sources, so that you can access the latest data from anywhere, and can maintain your work-life balance.
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