Microsoft Power BI - Why Power BI

Power BI is a Business Intelligence tool by Microsoft. Tableau and QlikView are market leaders now. MS-Power BI tool is very user friendly and easy to learn.

There are 2 variants of Power BI tool

Power BI Desktop - provides desktop based interface contains a whole suite of tools to build models and create visuals

Power BI Services - provides cloud-based BI services to create visuals and sharing the reports/dashboards online.

Why Power BI?

Below are some of the reasons to choose Power BI tool.

1.     Brand: - This is the Business Intelligence tool provided by Top Brand of Computer/IT; that is Microsoft. (Name is enough).

2.     Easy to Use: - Not only user friendly but easy to use; even beginner can start this after having a look at online forum or training videos.

3.     Cost: - Cost is the major factor for Business Intelligence tool as many people/industry avoid this due to high cost. But the MS-Power BI is much cheaper than the other tools Tableau or QlikView. 

4.     Community: - Pleasure news is the community creation by Microsoft where you will find many Experts/developers are ready to give you answer. http://community.powerbi.com you will find there are 2-3 posts per minute in community.

5.     Security: - It provides good security features as they allow to access only for organizational e-Mail account. (Sorry Gmail, Yahoo users). You can share with only for the organizational accounts. (note you can create Public link with limited features)

6.     Cloud Based:- Power BI is SaaS (Software As A Service) , even you can design and access your reports and design same from anywhere, where Internet network connectivity available.(this saves lot of physical hardware investment)

7.     Mobile Friendly: - Unlike many other tools, no additional design efforts required for mobile devices. All the Power BI reports are responsive and they adjust according to the device resolution.

8.     Data Access: - You can import Data set not only from Microsoft but other providers also like Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2, SAP Hana, Google Big Query and many more.