Microsoft Power BI on Azure
Realize the value of your enterprise data. Bring the insights discovered in Azure data and analytics tools to everyone in your organization.
Overview
Self-service and modern enterprise BI
Power BI is a unified self-service and enterprise analytics solution. It lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization and embed them in your app or website. Azure Analytics and Power BI together provide insights at scale, allowing you to develop the data-driven culture needed to thrive in a fast-paced, competitive environment.
- Access data from hundreds of sources, including prebuilt connectors for popular Azure services like Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Analysis Services, and others for a view of all your data.
- Reclaim hours in your day using Azure Synapse Analytics as a starting point to easily prepare and model your data.
- Create interactive reports personalized for your business and view them on any device to drive fact-based decision making across your organization.
- Explore data and get meaningful answers to questions asked in your own words.
- Use prebuilt report templates that highlight insights about common applications and Azure services
- Use the Power BI mobile app and embed reports in collaboration tools like Teams and SharePoint or in apps or websites.
- Reduce complexity through a self-service and enterprise BI platform that integrates with Azure services.
- Get the most value from any size data through the native integration of Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Allow business users to complete reporting while IT maintains systems’ control through Microsoft governance, compliance, and security capabilities.
- Better protect your data from unauthorized persons or inappropriate access with strict privacy and customer data protection standards.
- More easily meet compliance standards for your industry while using national clouds to meet local regulations.
- Better protect your data from unauthorized persons or inappropriate access with strict privacy and customer data protection standards.
Features
Power BI features for exploration, sharing, protection, and scale
Model
Connect to and easily model any data through simple data exploration experiences with help from native AI and ML
Collaborate
Share and collaborate via interactive, paginated reports inside and outside of your organization
Protect
Apply data protection that persists even when the data is exported to other file types
Scale
Use Azure data models, enterprise data stores, and databases to provide the scale that enables fast decision making
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Customer stories
Power BI customers turn data into opportunity
Frequently asked questions
- Most start by downloading Power BI Desktop, our free authoring tool. It allows you to connect to all your data sources, model your data, and create interactive visualizations that you can share with your team.
- Among the hundreds of prebuilt Power BI data connectors are Azure-specific connectors for services like Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Analysis Services.
- Power BI Pro is a cloud-based, self-service BI tool that is available as a SaaS solution. Power BI Premium, also a cloud offering, is an add-on to any Power BI Pro deployment to enable content consumption for large user bases without buying individual licenses for each consumer. Power BI Premium also offers additional controls, options, and capabilities, including access to Power BI Report Server for on-premises reporting. See a comparison to understand why it might make sense to add Power BI Premium to your Power BI Pro deployment.
- Power BI Embedded is a purpose-built solution for companies that want to embed content into their own applications. Power BI Embedded is an Azure service. Learn more.
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