Power BI

Power BI is Microsoft’s hosted business intelligence (BI) service and the focus for most of the company’s BI development. The service provides an Internet-based platform for sharing refreshable reports among users, includes refreshable access to on-premises data, has several interactive features for self-service analysis, and introduces a desktop report design tool. Updates in 2016 brought mobile applications and improvements to the desktop report designer, and it introduced enterprise-level controls for connecting the service to on-premises data sources.

Power BI Overview

Power BI is Microsoft’s BI product family. It consists of report design tools, hosted services for sharing reports, and a variety of clients that provide remote access to reports and include interactive features so end users can create their own analysis and reports. Reports can be refreshed automatically from on-premises data sources. For most organizations, Power BI technology can deliver reports more timely and securely, and at lower cost, than an on-premises BI solution.