Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables:
- Fast and easy access to your data
- A live 360º view of your business
- Data discovery and exploration
- Insights from any device
- Anyone to visualize and analyze data
- Collaboration across your organization
Key benefits and differentiators of Power BI for IT
Fast deployment with a hybrid solution, ease of maintenance, and 99.9% uptime SLA
Live connection to your data sources, on-premises and in the cloud
Keep your data secure, use groups to manage access and sharing
Integrated with familiar Microsoft products, utilizes infrastructure, scale, and availability in Azure and Office 365
Open APIs for integration and new scenarios, e.g. real-time insights from devices
Content delivery (dashboards, reports, models) for ease of consumption 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
