With Microsoft Power BI, you can turn data into insights and dashboards that help your organization move forward by making smarter decisions.
Many organizations have mountains of data, but lack an overview and speed. Reporting takes time, and information often remains scattered. Microsoft Power BI brings structure: a single platform that consolidates data and transforms it into dashboards and insights you can use to take immediate action.
Microsoft Power BI is a leading business intelligence tool that connects data from hundreds of data sources and visualizes it in interactive reports. It’s user-friendly, easy to share, and available anywhere—from desktop to mobile app. This is how you make your organization truly data-driven.
The power of Microsoft Power BI lies in its simplicity: complex data is transformed into dashboards and reports that everyone can understand. No more static tables—just visual insights that immediately show you where to make adjustments, without requiring any technical knowledge.
At the same time, Power BI is one of the most comprehensive business intelligence solutions. You can easily connect to more than 500 data sources and get powerful visualizations, real-time reports, and built-in security. In this way, Power BI combines user-friendliness with the robustness and reliability that even large organizations need.
Power BI makes data accessible to everyone in your organization. Whether you want to identify trends, track performance, or need a quick overview, you’ll always get the right information at the right time.
With Power BI, you can transform disjointed and time-consuming reports into interactive visualizations that are always up to date. You gain immediate insight into your organization's performance and make faster decisions based on reliable data.
Power BI combines all your key metrics into clear, easy-to-read dashboards that show you at a glance how your business is performing. You’ll spot trends and anomalies faster and can take more targeted action where it’s needed most.
With Power BI, you can uncover patterns and connections that would otherwise remain hidden. By analyzing data intelligently, you can identify opportunities and risks sooner and improve processes based on facts rather than assumptions.
With features such as forecasting, scenario analysis, and AI models, Power BI lets you look beyond today’s numbers. This enables you to predict future trends and better plan and support your decisions.
Connect to more than 500 data sources, such as Excel, Dynamics 365, SAP, Salesforce, AFAS, and Exact.
Use built-in AI tools for forecasting, text and image recognition, and what-if analyses.
Share dashboards securely in the cloud and collaborate with colleagues in real time.
Access all your dashboards through the Power BI app for iOS, Android, and Windows
Enhance standard charts with visuals from the Microsoft library or your own designs.
Combine and transform various data sources into a single dataset.
Manage access rights and rely on Microsoft's enterprise security.
Seamless collaboration with Power Apps and Power Automate.
The power of Power BI lies not only in its visualizations, but also in its integration with your existing systems. Thanks to hundreds of built-in connectors, you can easily connect to cloud services, databases, and applications.
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Microsoft Power BI is available in various licensing options, so you can always find a plan that fits the size and needs of your organization.
The free version of Power BI that lets you import, transform, and visualize data on your own computer. Ideal for exploring its capabilities or for individual use.
The standard license for collaboration. With Power BI Pro, you can create and publish dashboards, share reports with colleagues, and collaborate via the cloud service. This license is required for anyone who actively builds and publishes reports.
An upgrade from Pro that provides access to advanced features such as larger data models, AI capabilities, and advanced reporting. You pay per user, making this a cost-effective way to leverage Premium capabilities.
For organizations that use Power BI on a large scale. You pay for dedicated capacity in the cloud, which allows even users without a license to view reports. Includes Power BI Report Server, which lets you run Power BI on-premises—useful if you don't want to move entirely to the cloud (yet).
Do you want to build powerful dashboards on your own? With our Power BI training courses, your team will quickly learn how to work in a data-driven way, drawing on practical insights from our consultants.
Learn the basics of Power BI: importing data, modeling, visualizing, and building your first interactive dashboards. Ideal for beginners and anyone who wants to get started quickly on their own.
Delve into Power BI with advanced visualizations, modeling, and data security. This training will take your analyses to the next level and make your dashboards truly powerful.
With Microsoft Power BI, we have a solid foundation for a data-driven future.
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From numbers to insights. From insights to action. Stop struggling with Excel and static reports. With Microsoft Power BI, you can make your data tangible, shareable, and actionable, so your organization can respond faster and make better decisions.
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Microsoft Power BI is a Business Intelligence (BI) and data analysis tool from Microsoft that allows you to collect, analyze, and visualize data from various sources. It helps organizations quickly build interactive dashboards and reports, enabling them to make more informed decisions.
With Power BI, you can combine, transform, and visualize data from hundreds of data sources in dynamic dashboards. You can identify trends, compare performance, set KPIs, and easily share reports with colleagues. Thanks to the mobile app, you have access to your data anytime, anywhere.
Power BI Desktop is free to use on your computer. To collaborate and share dashboards, you need a Power BI Pro license. For advanced features such as larger datasets and AI capabilities, Premium licenses are available, both on a per-user basis and based on capacity.
Power BI supports more than 500 data sources. Popular examples include Excel, Dynamics 365, SAP, Salesforce, AFAS, Exact, Azure SQL Database, and SharePoint. In addition, connectors are available to integrate specific systems more quickly.
Yes. With Power BI Report Server (Included with Premium Capacity or SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance) allows you to deploy Power BI on-premises. This is useful if you don't want to work entirely in the cloud yet but still want to use interactive reports and dashboards.