Microsoft Power BI_

Get more from your data with visually engaging, interactive reports and dashboards that allow you to share meaningful insights.

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What is Power BI?

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive and interactive insights. It lets you easily connect to your data sources, discover what’s important and share insights with key stakeholders.

And it’s not just for managers. Regardless of your role within a project or team, you can leverage distinct aspects of Power BI – from creating inventory dashboards to building customer engagement reports.

It’s a versatile and powerful platform for businesses intelligence, allowing users across your organisation to better understand data and empowering smarter decision making.

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Why use Power BI?

Power BI enables businesses to make the most of their data by connecting it into one unified dashboard. It explores key metrics through advanced analysis and drill down with customisable, interactive visualisations to make it easier to understand.

The reports created can be shared privately or publicly, promoting better data storytelling that persuades internal teams, partners and stakeholders.

Most crucially, your data stays secure, even as you build and access reports on the go.

The key benefits of Microsoft Power BI_

Data visualisation: Create visually appealing dashboards that help stakeholder derive insight from complex data sets

Data driven decision making
Identify valuable insights using the data visualisations and built in AI capabilities.

Real–time data access: Empower timely decision-making with data that responds to changing conditions and new opportunities in your business

Easy to use: An intuitive interface, pre-built reports and drag-and-drop functionality allows non-technical users to effortlessly create dashboards

Improve data visibility: With meaningful reports and centralised dashboards, more people can gain the insight they need to perform better

Centralised insights: Pull data from multiple sources into one location, allowing you to gain comprehensive context and analysis

Secure data: Secure and protect sensitive data and ensure it remains compliant even once exported

Data-driven decision-making: Identify valuable insights using the data visualisations and built-in AI capabilities

Improve efficiency: Automate reporting and analysis across your teams, saving time and resources

How do Infinity Group support with Power BI?

We are passionate about the potential of data to transform businesses. This passion drives us to deliver solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations, helping our clients unlock their full potential.

Our team of certified Power BI experts help to deliver powerful dashboards and reports to organisations across the UK and internationally. Our aim is to provide informative and actionable business intelligence for all areas of your business, allowing you to find out what you need to know and improve internal analysis.

We offer a one-day Power BI discovery session to help you understand exactly what it is and how you can maximise your investment. While the data landscape is complex, you’ll arrive feeling much clearer than when you arrived. We can also provide training to ensure your business gets more from the tool.

Power BI key features_

Data connectivity: Connect to a wide range of data sources, including Excel files, databases, cloud-based platforms and more

Data modelling: Enable users to create relationships between different datasets, allowing for complex analysis and calculations

Data visualisation: Gain a rich library of visualisation options, including charts, graphs, maps and custom visuals

Interactive dashboards: Create dynamic and interactive dashboards that combine multiple visualisations for improve collaboration and intelligence

FAQs_

How much does Power BI cost?

There are two main pricing plans:

Power BI Pro (£8.20 per user, per month): Access Power BI reports shared with you and publish your own

Power BI Premium (£16.40 per user, per month): License data professionals with access to enterprise-scale features, including larger data models and more frequent refreshes.

Power BI Pro is also included in Microsoft E3 and E5 licences. There is also a free account option, though the features will be more limited than the options above.

How does Power BI differ to Excel?

Excel and Power BI are both valuable tools for data analysis, but they have distinct strengths.

Excel is a versatile spreadsheet software. It’s primarily used for data entry, calculations and basic analysis. It’s ideal for smaller and simple datasets. While Excel offers basic charting capabilities, it lacks advanced visualisation options.

Power BI, on the other hand, is designed specifically for business intelligence purposes. It’s focused on creating interactive dashboards, reports and visuals for analysing large and complex datasets. It facilitates collaboration among teams and offers a wide range of interactive visualisations.

In short, Power BI is better suited for creating complex business intelligence solutions, while Excel is more appropriate for individual data analysis and simpler tasks.

Who can use Power BI?

Power BI is versatile and can be used by a wide range of roles within an organization. Here are some examples:  

Business users

Analysts: Can create detailed reports, analyse trends and uncover insights.

Managers: Can monitor KPIs, track performance and make data-driven decisions.

Sales: Can analyse sales data, identify opportunities and optimize sales strategies.

Marketing: Can measure campaign effectiveness, understand customer behaviour and track marketing spend.

IT professionals

Data engineers: Can build data models and optimize data for analysis.

Data analysts: Can create data visualizations and dashboards.

Developers: Can integrate it into applications and create custom visuals.

Other roles

Finance: Can analyse financial performance, create budgets and forecast trends.

HR: Can track employee performance, analyse turnover and identify talent gaps.

Operations: Can monitor production efficiency, optimise supply chain and reduce costs.

Essentially, anyone who needs to make data-driven decisions can benefit from the tool.

What does Power BI integrate with?

Power BI can connect to a diverse range of data sources including:

Microsoft ecosystem: Seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft products like Excel, SharePoint, Azure and Microsoft 365.

Databases: Connects to various databases, including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and cloud-based options like Azure SQL Database.

Cloud services: Integrates with popular cloud platforms like Salesforce, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics.

Big data: Supports integration with Azure Data Lake and other big data sources.

What can you create in Power BI?

Power BI is an agile tool that allows you to create a wide range of visualisations and reports. Here are some examples – many of which can be tailored from pre-built templates.

Visualisations

Basic charts: Bar charts, line charts, pie charts, column charts, area charts, scatter plots.

Advanced visualisations: Maps, treemaps, heatmaps, waterfall charts, funnel charts.

Custom visualisations: Create or use custom visuals from the Power BI marketplace.

Reports

Interactive reports: Drill-down reports, paginated reports.

Dynamic reports: Reports that automatically update based on data changes.

Narrative reports: Reports that tell a story using text and visuals.

Dashboards

Executive dashboards: High-level overviews of key performance indicators (KPIs).

Operational dashboards: Detailed views of operational metrics and processes.

Analytical dashboards: Dashboards for in-depth data exploration.

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