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Create stunning visualizations and robust dashboards with Power BI. Collaborate quickly on reports and dashboards anytime, anywhere. Simpler and faster than ever before, Power BI helps you read data, discover insights, and forecast trends.
Capabilities
Power BI is the gold standard of data visualization software and an important piece of an overall business intelligence strategy. Allow your business users to make intuitive sense of their important data with rich charts and graphs, as well as create personalized dashboards.
Pricing
Power BI comes in three versions—Power BI Desktop, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium. Power BI Desktop is free while, Power BI Pro and Power BI have additional capabilities. Clients pay per user per month.
Platform
Power BI is part of Microsoft’s Power Platform which is a suite of low or no-code tools that helps bring together Dynamics 365, Office 365, and hundreds of other applications into powerful end-to-end business solutions.
Support
Extract the most value from your Power BI solution and receive a rapid ROI with support from Rand Group. Get expert support on using Power BI to create powerful visualizations to bring your data to life, unify data sources, and craft dashboards.
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Connect, model, and visualize data to unlock actionable insights with Power BI
Discover how Microsoft Power BI can transform your data from your various business technologies and processes into live, interactive visuals. Dashboards give you a 360-degree real-time view of your business so you can make intelligent, data-drive decisions.
Industry leading data visualization at your fingertips
Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics platform that lets you analyze data and share insights. Advanced analytics help your organization obtain useful information from your business data, leading to data-driven decisions and full visibility.
See your entire business in a single view with interactive visuals and dashboards. No matter where your data lies or what form it is in, the important business metrics that you need are available on-demand, in real-time.
Power BI has multiple deployment options and services to best fit the needs of your organization.
Use smart tools for strong results
Identify impactful data insights and collaborate with your peers with hundreds of data visualizations, advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, and close integration with Excel that will help you turn insights into action.
Powerful alone, better together
Power BI integrates seamlessly with Dynamics 365, Office 365, other Power Platform tools such as Power Automate, and business intelligence tools such as Jet and Solver to create powerful end-to-end solutions.
Make past problems easier to avoid and future problems easier to mitigate
Business decisions should be made after analyzing all the relevant data. Yet in reality, decisions are often made based on intuition and guesswork. Power BI makes data available in real time, which helps lead to better decisions and better business.
Get co-funding from Microsoft to explore Power BI
Explore the transformative power of Power BI with a dashboard-in-a-day workshop or a 3-week personalized pilot to help you visualize your future state solution. Work with our team of data analysts and business consultants to identify high value initiatives to deliver business success.
Learn Power BI with dashboard-in-a-day
In this one-day, hyper-focused workshop, Rand Group data analysts will guide you through building a dashboard in Power BI that will help deliver actionable insights for your business. Attendees will build knowledge on how to leverage Power BI to better analyze data and build visualizations for others to understand.
3-week pilot to visualize and evaluate Power BI
Visualize how Power BI can optimize your reporting with a 3-week personalized pilot. Rand Group will run a live simulation using your data to demonstrate to key stakeholders how Power BI can help transform your business.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization platform that helps organizations connect, analyze, and visualize data. It combines data from multiple sources into one system to create reports and dashboards. Power BI helps users turn raw data into actionable insights for better decision-making.
What are the capabilities of Power BI?
Power BI connects to multiple data sources and transforms data into interactive dashboards and reports. It helps organizations track performance, analyze trends, and create a unified view of business data. Users can also share insights and collaborate across teams using Microsoft tools like Teams and Dynamics 365.
To learn more, explore Power BI capabilities.
What are the benefits of Power BI?
Power BI improves visibility into business performance by centralizing and visualizing data. It reduces manual reporting and enables faster, data-driven decision-making. It also supports self-service analytics so users can create and explore reports without heavy IT support.
To learn more, read our blog on the benefits of the Power Platform.
How much does Power BI cost?
Power BI uses a subscription-based pricing model with several options based on user needs. Power BI Desktop is free, while Power BI Pro costs $10 per user per month and Power BI Premium costs $20 per user per month. Power BI Embedded has variable pricing and is designed for embedding reports into applications.
To learn more, explore Power BI pricing.
Can Power BI be integrated with other systems?
Yes. Power BI integrates with ERP, CRM, cloud platforms, and many third-party applications. It connects natively with Microsoft tools like Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure, as well as external data sources. This allows organizations to create a single, unified view of their data.
To learn more, read our blogs on Power BI and Business Central integration, Power BI and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations integration, and Power BI and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement integration.
Does Power BI include AI capabilities?
Yes. Power BI includes built-in AI features such as natural language queries, automated insights, and predictive analytics. Users can ask questions about their data and quickly identify trends and patterns. These capabilities make data analysis faster and more accessible across the organization.