Power BI for Office 365 overview

With the increasing of data volume, it becomes more and more urgent to transform data into Assistant Decision support tool through self service business intelligence. In the past, it was often a matter for the IT staff to process the data, but Microsoft lowered the threshold by serving new features in power BI for Office 365. It's all based on tools that most people already know, including Excel and SharePoint.

This series comes from Microsoft's power BI Getting Started Guide, the original address:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/ Power-bi-getting-started-guide-ha104103589.aspx

This series, in turn, describes the capabilities of the various self-service business intelligence included in power BI. Each module completes its own specified function, and then further cooperates with other modules.

Who is the power bi designed for? Any Excel user who needs a self service business intelligence can discover his value. With the familiar Excel user interface, power BI is undoubtedly the most easy-to-use and intuitive solution for report creators and advanced users of Excel.

This series focuses more on the average user, the creator of the report, and others who can benefit from power bi. These roles include report creators, report users, data workers, and IT specialists, as well as report consumers.

If you are a report creator, such as a data analyst, or a consultant for data and business intelligence, or a mainstream Excel user, the self-service business Intelligence feature in Excel in power BI will be appropriate. Online services that support writing, such as publishing a report interface and workbooks, are also an important central work environment and Information Center.

If you are a data worker, such as a data scientist, a data administrator, or an IT expert, power BI's online Services feature enables you to securely provide a data resource service. If you are in this role, then you can refer to power BI provisioning Guide, which will describe how to run power bi in your enterprise.

Or if you are a reporting consumer, such as a aspiring CEO, you can write, share, and interact with the report flexibly through power bi. These include online centers tailored to collaborative business intelligence based on Office 365.

Let's take a look at what functionality is included in power bi.

First, self-service business intelligence in Excel.

These features are part of a very familiar Excel environment, and he extends the data capabilities of Excel. Some features are previously available, some are new, but these features are now fully integrated into the online services of Excel and Power Bi, which include:

Power Query: A handy tool for retrieving data from internal or external data sources, including new data search capabilities, and more kinds of data source support.