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What is Power BI?

Power BI is a Business Intelligence tool each we know that developed by Microsoft, released in the time 2014. The main purpose of this logical tool is to give the stylish visualizations to our data and help produce customized Power BI dashboards and reports and share perceptivity. Power BI is point- packed and offers a lot to inventors. Below are some of the important features of Power BI:

Content packs: Content packs includes of a data model, embedded queries, and dashboard reports that are used by a huge number of applications.

Natural language QA: This one is the most important feature of Power BI, which allows us to ask questions and give answers to those by providing the content that matches our requirements.

Various data sources: Power BI supports various data sources, such as structured data, unstructured data, SQL Server, web files, CSV, and Excel. It also creates bilateral visualizations.

Custom visualization: Power BI allows us to access the custom visualization library that helps to meet our varied needs.

Print dashboard: This is a unique feature that is used to print dashboards so that they come in handy in discussions and board meetings.

How is Power BI beneficial?

Power BI is an easy-to-use and very easy-to-understand BI tool used for creating business reports. Here are some of the much-valued benefits of the Power BI tool:

Helps in publishing reports securely: Power BI helps developers publish their reports that allow users to get the latest information and also helps to refresh data automatically.
Supports drag-and-drop options: This functionality helps end-users create graphical reports on the dashboard by themselves within no time.
Good storage capacity: Power BI can compress large files and load them in a short period of time.
Advanced data services: The Power BI tool can easily be integrated with other cloud services such as Cortana/Bot framework.

Learn more about Power BI: https://www.igmguru.com/data-science-bi/power-bi-certification-training/

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