Introduction to Power BI
Power BI offers a cloud platform (Software as a Service – SaaS) experience that empowers businesses to service themselves with all their intelligence needs. The huge benefit of this is being able to handle millions of rows of data with ease – you can model and analyze data by defining relationships. Its most wonderful feature is that it allows you to define a formula once and then manipulate data using the same formula!
Power BI consists of Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power View and allows you to present large, complex data in meaningful and interesting ways by creating reports and dashboards. It is available in the cloud, which is where users upload and share with other users, allowing natural language queries to be performed on data models. Its standalone version is free of charge and is named Power BI for Desktop Applications. It includes all three apps (Power Query, Power View, and Power Pivot). Power View allows you to create interactive...