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What is PowerBI?

PowerBI is a data visualization tool that allows you to connect, model, and visualize your data, creating intuitive and dynamic reports. You can easily connect to your data sources with the scale to analyze, share, and promote insights while maintaining data accuracy, consistency, and security.

 

 

What can I do with PowerBI?

Work together easily on the same data, collaborate on reports, and share insights across popular Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Teams and Excel—empowering everyone in your organization to quickly make data-driven decisions that drive strategic actions.

 

What are the differences between Power BI and Excel:

 

  • Power BI is a Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Visualization tool for creating custom and interactive dashboards from different data sources while Microsoft Excel is a software application from Microsoft that is used for data analytics, mathematical operations, data organization and many more features using a spreadsheet system.
  • Power BI can smoothly handle a large amount of data while Microsoft Excel is limited to some extent of data.
  • Power BI handle Big Data while Microsoft Excel is not capable of handling Big Data.
  • Power BI can connect with different varieties of sources while Microsoft Excel can connect to limited sources.
  • Power BI dashboards are more interactive and custom while Microsoft Excel dashboards are not very interactive.
  • Power BI is mostly used for data visualizations and dashboard sharing to many users while Microsoft Excel is mostly used for in-depth analysis.

 

How do I access PowerBI?

You can login directly here: https://app.powerbi.com/

Or login to the Office365 Portal at https://portal.office.com/ and then select PowerBI from the App Launcher.

 

Interested in PowerBI Pro?

The biggest difference between Free and Pro is that with Pro you can share your data, reports, and dashboards with other users who also have a Power BI Pro license.

 

To get the Power BI Pro license, please email the IT Service Desk.

• Net Price: 25.19 USD - 94.50 SAR per year

 

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Where can I get training?

 

Check out this Microsoft Course

 

Take a course on LinkedIn Learning:


 

 

 

 

Additional Support

 

Check out the detailed Microsoft PowerBI Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/