Pros of Power BI | Intellipaat
Let us go over some of the most important benefits of Power BI that contribute to the tool's success.
1. Cost-effectiveness
One significant advantage of using Power BI for data analysis and visualization is that it is reasonably priced. Power BI Desktop is available for free. You can download it and start creating reports and dashboards on your computer right away. If you want to use more Power BI services and publish your reports to the cloud, you can opt for the Power BI Cloud service solution, which costs $9.99 per user per month. As a result, when compared to other BI tools, Power BI is reasonably priced.
2. Individualized Visualizations
Power BI provides a wide variety of custom visualisations, which are visualizations created by developers for a specific purpose. Microsoft Marketplace offers custom visuals. Power BI custom visualisations can be used in reports and dashboards in addition to the standard set of visualizations. Custom visualizations include KPIs, maps, charts, graphs, R script visuals, and so on.
3. Microsoft Excel Integration
You can also upload and view your data in Excel using Power BI. You can export data from a Power BI report or dashboard to Excel by selecting/filtering/slicing it. The same data can then be viewed in tabular form in an Excel spreadsheet by opening Excel. In other words, Power BI's Excel integration enables users to view and manipulate the raw data underlying a Power BI visualization.
4. Data Interconnection
Another significant advantage of using Power BI as your data analysis tool is the ability to import data from a variety of data sources. It provides data connectivity to data files (such as XML and JSON), Microsoft Excel, SQL Server databases, Azure sources, cloud-based sources, and online services like Google Analytics and Facebook. In addition to this, Power BI can directly access Big Data sources. As a result, you will have access to a variety of data sources from which to obtain data for analysis and report creation.
5. Timely Updates
Microsoft releases monthly updates for Power BI. Microsoft has created a user community where users can share their Power BI suggestions and tweaks. The suggestions that receive the most votes from other users have a good chance of being included in the next Power BI update. A Power BI user will be notified whenever a new update is available for download. Power BI has been able to include better functionalities since its release due to the prompt and comprehensive upgrading system.
6. Embedded Power BI
Another advantage of Power BI is Power BI Embedded. An app developer can use this solution to embed or include Power BI reports and features into web-based or other apps. We can use this to embed Power BI visuals and reports into emails or websites, increasing their visibility to users.
7. Personal Gateway
In previous tutorials, we discussed gateways in Power BI and their use. Personal Gateway is a tool that works with Power BI to authenticate data sources that are both on-premise and outside the firewall. After this tool authenticates an on-premise data source, a cloud-hosted Power BI instance can use the data from that data source.
8. Data Availability
Power BI provides easy access to data sources and data sets created while designing reports. All of the data that you import from data sources and work with is centralised. You can access that data at any time, from any location, on any platform, and as many times as you like.
9. Visualizations that are Interactive
Power BI's most talked-about advantage over any other data visualisation tool is its visually appealing, intuitive, and interactive visualizations. We can add different visualisations to a report using Power BI's simple drag-and-drop functionality. We can also interact with visualisation by applying filters, making selections, and so on. Power BI visualisations make it very simple to create and understand data.
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