Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables:
- Monitor data through live dashboards
- Fast and easy access to your data
- A live 360º view of your business
- Data discovery and exploration
- Track and stream data in real-time
- Insights from any device
- Visualize and analyze data
- Collaboration across your organization
- Observe performance with visuals and KPIs
Key benefits and differentiators of Power BI for IT
Keep your data secure, use groups to manage access and sharing
Live connection to your data sources, on-premises and in the cloud
Capable of integration with other Microsoft products, Azure, and Office 365.
Fast deployment with a hybrid solution, ease of maintenance, and 99.9% uptime SLA
Open APIs for integration and new scenarios, e.g. real-time insights from devices
Content delivery (dashboards, reports, models) across your organizations
Common Challenges for BI IT Professionals
Variety of data sources
Complexity of connecting to on-premise and cloud (SaaS) data sources
Managing data in the cloud
Security, privacy, and data refresh concerns for moving data into the cloud
Management of BI systems
Time spent on setup and management of BI systems. Ongoing hardware acquisitions and maintenance to meet SLAs
Existing environment integration
Cost and time involved in integration of solution into existing environment
Keeping data current
Complexity of refreshing data from variety of data sources, increased demand for real-time data
Ease of use and adoption
Ease of adoption by business and IT orgs. Time spent on creating reports and visualizations
