মাইক্রোসফ্ট পাওয়ার বিআই (Microsoft Power BI) একটি Business Intelligence (BI) প্ল্যাটফর্ম যা ননটেকনিক্যাল বিজনেস ব্যবহারকারীদের ডেটা একীভূতকরণ, বিশ্লেষণ, দৃশ্যায়ন এবং শেয়ারিং করে নেওয়ার একটা টুল হিসাবে ব্যবহার করা হয়ে থাকে। Power BI -এর ইউজার ইন্টারফেস (User Interface) এক্সেলের ব্যবহারকারীদের জন্য মোটামুটি পরিচিত এবং এটা মাইক্রোসফ্টের একটি ব্যবসায়িক বিশ্লেষণ (Business Analytics) সেবা হিসাবে অন্যান্য মাইক্রোসফ্ট পণ্যগুলির সাথে এর Integration থাকায় এটিকে একটি অত্যন্ত বহুমুখী self-service tool হিসাবে তৈরি করেছে যার জন্য সামান্য প্রশিক্ষণ প্রয়োজন হয়। এটি ব্যবহারকারীদের নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদন এবং ড্যাশবোর্ড তৈরির জন্য একটি ইন্টারফেসের সাথে ইন্টারেক্টিভ ভিজুয়ালাইজেশন (interactive visualizations) এবং ব্যবসায়িক বুদ্ধিমত্তার (business intelligence ) দক্ষতা সরবরাহ করার লক্ষ্যে কাজ করে।
Power BI is a business intelligence platform that provides non-technical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data. Power BI's user interface is fairly intuitive for users familiar with Excel and its deep integration with other Microsoft products makes it a very versatile self-service tool that requires little upfront training.A free version of Power BI is intended for small to midsize business owners; a professional version called Power BI Plus is available for a monthly subscription fee. Users can download an application for Windows 10, called Power BI Desktop, and native mobile apps for Windows, Android and iOS devices. There is also Power BI Report Server for companies that must maintain their data and reports on-premises. That version of Power BI requires a special version of the desktop app -- aptly called Power BI Desktop for Power BI Report Server.
Power BI Desktop: The Windows-desktop-based application for PCs and desktops, primarily for designing and publishing reports to the Service
Common uses of Power BI:
Microsoft Power BI is used to find insights within an organization's data. Power BI can help connect disparate data sets, transform and clean the data into a data model and create charts or graphs to provide visuals of the data. All of this can be shared with other Power BI users within the organization.
The data models created from Power BI can be used in several ways for organizations, including telling stories through charts and data visualizations and examining "what if" scenarios within the data. Power BI reports can also answer questions in real-time and help with forecasting to make sure departments meet business metrics.
Power BI can also provide executive dashboards for administrators or managers, giving management more insight into how departments are doing.
Power BI components:
Power BI consists of a collection of apps and can be used either on the desktop, as a SaaS product or on a mobile device. Power BI Desktop is the on-premises version, Power BI Service is the cloud-based offering and mobile Power BI runs on mobile devices.
The different components of Power BI are meant to let users create and share business insights in a way that fits with their role.
Included within Power BI are several components that help users create and share data reports.
Power Query: a data mashup and transformation tool
Power Pivot: a memory tabular data modeling tool
Power View: a data visualization tool
Power Map: a 3D geospatial data visualization tool
Power Q&A: A natural language question and answering engine
Additionally, there are dozens of data sources that connect into Power BI, ranging from files (Excel, PDF, SharePoint Folder, XML), databases (SQL Server Database, Oracle Database, IBM databases, Amazon Redshift, Google Big Query), other Power BI data sets, Azure data connections and many online services (Dynamics 365, Salesforce Reports, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Facebook and others).
How to use Power BI:
Power BI Desktop is where analysts and other users can create data connections, data models and reports. The Power BI service is where those reports can be shared, so other users can view and interact with the reports.
Building a Power BI report begins by connecting data sources. Users then query the data to create reports based on their needs. The report is published to Power BI Service and shared so cloud and mobile users can see and interact with the report. Permissions can be added to give colleagues the ability to edit reports or create dashboards or limit their ability to edit.
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