Microsoft Power BI
What is Microsoft Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI is a powerful business intelligence platform that enables users to connect, transform and visualise data from different sources. It provides tools to create interactive dashboards and detailed reports that can be updated in real time. Power BI facilitates data analysis through visual representations such as charts and maps and enables collaboration and insight sharing through its cloud-based service component and mobile apps. It integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft products and third-party applications to support informed business decisions.
The benefits of Microsoft Power BI
Interactive visualisations and dashboards
Power BI makes it possible to transform complex data into interactive and easy-to-understand visualisations and dashboards. Users can create reports that provide deeper insights and support better decision making.
Real-time data analysis
With Power BI, users can analyse data in real time. This is particularly useful for companies that need to react quickly to changes in their business environment.
Data integration from various sources
Power BI can integrate data from a variety of sources, including Excel, SQL Server, SharePoint, and cloud services such as Azure and Google Analytics. This wide range of integration options makes it a versatile tool for data analysis.
User-friendliness
The Power BI interface is intuitive and user-friendly, making it easy for users without in-depth technical knowledge to create powerful reports and dashboards.
Cost efficiency
Power BI offers flexible pricing models, including a free version with basic functions and a Pro version for advanced functions. This allows companies to use the tool according to their budget and requirements.
Collaboration and sharing
With Power BI, users can easily share their reports and dashboards with others and work on them together. This promotes collaboration within teams and departments.
How we can support you as iRIX
✔ Consultancy and implementation
Through a detailed requirements analysis, we understand the specific needs and goals of our customers and customise Power BI to their business requirements to ensure a tailor-made implementation on-premise or in the cloud. As a Microsoft partner, we also support you in selecting the right Power BI licences.
✔ Data integration and management
We support data migration from old systems or other BI tools to Power BI and implement ETL processes to cleanse, transform and load data from different sources.
✔ Training and support
Our services include the provision of training and workshops to enable end users and administrators to use Power BI effectively, as well as ongoing technical support and maintenance services.
✔ Advanced analyses and reporting
We create customised dashboards and reports that cover specific business needs and KPIs and use advanced analytics methods such as predictive analytics and machine learning to gain deeper insights.
✔ Data governance and security
Our security concepts ensure the protection of sensitive data and the fulfilment of compliance requirements, while Row-Level Security (RLS) controls data access on a user basis.
✔ Optimisation and performance tuning
We monitor and optimise the Power BI environment to ensure high performance and fast load times, and ensure that the Power BI solution is scalable to meet growing data volumes and user requirements.
✔ Additional Power BI features and integrations
We integrate Power BI with Power Apps and Power Automate to automate workflows and create custom applications, and use Power BI Embedded to integrate reports and dashboards into custom applications and websites.