Why BI solution providers prefer Power BI dashboards

Posted by Thomas Miller on September 21st, 2019

Power BI is a dynamic tool for building dashboards. Developed by Microsoft, it can capture massive amount of transactional data to give incredible insights to your business.

With all the drag-and-drop functionality, Power BI eases out the process of extracting and presenting data through dynamic and interactive data visualizations. Sharing dashboards with both external and internal stakeholders, while complying the global security standards has never been easier!

Benefits of Power BI

Minimal cost

Power BI desktop version is free, thus you simply need to download it and enjoy building the best reports ever. But, if you want to share it with your colleagues, you will need to upgrade to Pro for a minimal yearly cost and subscribe.

Compatible with different platforms

Wherever you are and whatever device you might be carrying with you, nothing can stop you from getting a glimpse of your company’s performance. Power BI reports are not only compatible with desktops and laptops but also with smartphones, including iOS, Android, and Windows devices.

Consolidate multiple data sources

Extract data from wide range of sources including, different databases (SQL, Oracle, IBM, MySQL, etc), flat files like Excel, or from the internet. And consolidate in one report for ease of access.

Easy sharing

Share updated dashboards with your colleagues in a jiffy. Once your dashboard is ready, and refreshed it will reflect on the web page where you have embedded it. Or you can also share a link with your colleagues, and they can view it with their Office 365 login credentials.

Highly customizable

The dashboards have different level of filters using which you can customize the report and present only the information which is important to the current group of audience.
The drill-down functionality lets you drill into a visualization and take a better look at the components in it.

Schedule data refresh

With Power BI Pro, you can even schedule your data refresh. So, if you are going on a holiday, you can be relaxed that your seniors will get the real-time view of the reports, even in your absence!

Drag-and drop facility

You can easily build basic reports using the drag-and-drop facility of Power BI. There are many available which you can use for your reports. Furthermore, there are a multiple range of graphs, filter, and charts available on the Marketplace, which you can download and use for your presentations.

Presentation ready

You can download the .PPT version of Power BI and embed the charts and graphs in your presentations, making them more vibrant and meaningful.

Growing Online community

Power BI already has more than 5 million users, in over 20k organization. There online community has grown profusely over the years and you can get help from you fellow mates whenever stuck.

After going through all the robust features and benefits, you might now know why BI solution providers prefer Power BI over any other BI tool. And, as a good to know fact – Microsoft has been featured as a Leader in the “Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms” of Gartner, for 12 consecutive years.