Power BI
What is Power BI?
Discover how Power BI can enhance your workflow
Key Capabilities
What makes Power BI powerful
Power Query and DAX
Connect clean and model data with a semantic layer that powers performant visuals and reusable datasets.
Workspaces and apps
Distribute curated content securely with row level security and app packaging for business users.
Premium per user and capacity
Increase refresh limits model sizes and concurrency or move to capacity for org wide scale and embedding.
AAD and governance
Apply Azure AD sensitivity labels tenant controls and audit to keep analytics compliant.
Key Features
What makes Power BI stand out
- Desktop authoring: Build models with Power Query and DAX then design reports locally
- Cloud sharing: Publish to workspaces with apps permissions and row level security
- Premium per user: Unlock larger models more refreshes and advanced governance
- Embedded analytics: Deliver white labeled reports to your apps with APIs and tokens
- Microsoft Fabric: Integrate with data engineering and real time workloads
- Security and compliance: Leverage AAD
- sensitivity labels and tenant controls
- Automation: Refresh and deployment pipelines for CI CD in analytics
- Large ecosystem: Certified connectors visuals community and learning paths
Use Cases
How Power BI can help you
- Enable self service analytics with governed workspaces
- Publish department apps that bundle curated reports and datasets
- Embed interactive reports into customer portals and ISV products
- Modernize Excel workflows with shared semantic models
- Scale to larger memory refresh and concurrency with Premium
- Secure sensitive data using AAD RLS and sensitivity labels
- Automate deployment across dev test prod workspaces
- Standardize analytics on Microsoft stack and skills
Perfect For
data analysts BI developers enterprise IT admins product teams embedding analytics and organizations standardizing on Microsoft cloud
Plans & Pricing
Free / $14 per user per month / $24 per user per month
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Quick Information
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Frequently Asked Questions
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