Introduction to Power BI

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4 min readMar 17, 2023

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What is Power BI

Power BI is a unified scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence. Power BI is a tool from which we can used for analyzing, collecting, sharing and visualizing data to its user’s along with that we also visualize any sort of data and seamlessly infuse the visuals into the apps you use every day.

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Who Are The Peoples Using Power BI And Why

Power BI is commonly used by data scientists, data analyst, business intelligence professionals, department representatives and decision makers in organization. Management executives and decisions makers use power bi to develop reports and make predictions that improve sales and marketing strategies of an organization. Department representatives primarily utilize the tool to observe how individual employees and the
department as a whole are reaching the advancing towards the organizational goals.

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Versions of Power BI

Power is generally released in the market in two versions are shown below:

Power BI Desktop

Power BI Pro

1 — Power BI Desktop

Power BI desktop is a free version and it specially designed for small scale businesses and start-ups.

2 — Power BI Pro

Power BI pro is a paid version and it specially designed for large scale businesses and top organizations. It is available for its user after monthly subscription fee, as we discuss about payment plans, so it comes in two packages depending on the number of users able to create and consume
contents.

Features Of Power BI

The first time Power BI was released in 2011 and in that time, it was called as Project Cresent. The remaining occurred in 2013 and it was rebranded as Power BI for Microsoft office 365. The original version was based on feature present in Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View. Eventually it was released as a separate product in 2015 and stood apart from the other tools. Software updates is a crucial part of every software so Microsoft updates Power BI every month and every time they update Power BI, it comes with new and existing features.

How To Download Power BI Desktop

Firstly, go to google chrome browser and start typing “Download Power BI Desktop” in the search bar and after you done with that “Press Enter”.

Visit the Microsoft power bi desktop official website by clicking the link below:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494

After, visiting the Microsoft power bi website you will see there was a button named as “Download” click on that to download power bi desktop in your machine.

After clicking the “Download” button on the bottom right corner, it will pop-up another dialog box where you can choose the download type of power bi desktop, according to your preference check the box and after it will starting the downloading.

If you are done with that, click on “Next” as you can see in the bottom right corner and after it all set, you successfully download the power bi desktop.

Conclusion

It is important to understand the technical jargons that we learn in this entire time and power bi is as a business intelligence tool provides us a various amount of options and also it give a flat design environment from which we can draw our data differently from every corners and shape it out that how we as a business person take a precious insights from our data to understand the complex and complicated patterns and after that we shape out our business according to that decision that we take after Power BI recommendation.

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