Business Intelligence with Power BI

How many times have you heard some kind of iteration of the “Data is the new gold” phrase. And it’s true. But much as gold, in its raw form, data isn’t as valuable. To extract its true value, it needs to be processed, effectively manipulated and then you result in a business value from which you carry out a decision. Because that’s what it boils down to. Decisions. Not just a fancy visualization to look at (although some of those are pretttty sweet) and show off to your peers. Right? or am I getting this all confused?

You, like every other business unit, want to leverage your data, but implementing an organization-wide business analytics platform can be overwhelming. Well! It doesn’t have to be. With some assistance, you can craft a data platform that is tailored to your organization’s needs and gets the most return from your data gold.

The present data-driven world requires a fast and efficient data analytics tool that can deal with Data Science and Analytics at the same time eventually benefitting the business process. This is where Power BI comes handy. Whether it is using interactive dashboards to consolidate key metrics or rich reports to connect datasets from workloads, Power BI is a key tool to engage with business data and enable smarter data-driven decisions.

Let’s see what Power BI is and how it can make your raw data turn into gold and enhance your business value.

What is Power BI?

Power BI is THE Enterprise level Business Intelligence platform that can help your business clean and completely transform your data into a meaningful one, based on its vision of completeness and ability to execute BI solutions.

It is the most happening tool of Microsoft cognizant with the new technology-driven world making your work easier while saving plenty of your time, offering the best results. No matter what the size of your organization, Power BI is a powerful analytics tools that can help you analyze your data and share insights. With Power BI, you can monitor your business more closely and get instant answers with rich dashboards available for every device.

Dashboards, datasets, and reports are the key features of Power BI. You can create personalized dashboards, which combine on-premises and cloud-based data in a single view, allowing you to monitor your most valuable data organization-wide and from all your business apps.

How Power BI can give value to your business?

If you are like 95% of companies in the world (startups, small, medium, large, too-big-to-fail) then your IT, vendors and/or executives are pushing the dashboard concept in a hard way. It’s probably becoming such an overwhelming surge of desire that you will end up putting in dashboards to just have them all stop talking about it.

Using a Business Intelligence platform like Power BI, you would know that you could be tremendously productive dealing with the data and understanding it quickly.

The volume of data that you generate may grow exponentially with the growth of your business, making it difficult for you to manage and analyze it. For this reason, you might miss out on the opportunity to gain actionable insights that help you transform your business for the better. Fortunately, Power BI provides easy access to all your data in one place, improving collaboration, efficiency, and productivity among various departments. Couple this with the Power Platform (build your app in no time at all in an easy user-friendly way), Power Automate (world-class automation with a no-code approach) and Power Virtual Agents (build chatbots to automate frequently asked questions from within Teams) and it’s a recipe for next-level value extraction and automation

In a nutshell, Power BI is a complete solution that produces a more secure and collaborative data environment, one that encourages actionable insights and will help in providing more value to your clients and making your lives easier in the process.

If you haven’t switched to Power BI or made use of your existing licenses yet, reach out and let’s book a no-objection consulting call to get you on your way to smooth sailing reporting and dashboarding