What is Microsoft Power BI Desktop?
- Power BI Desktop is a free advanced feature
for authoring and publishing tool of
Power BI. It is a user
interaction platform where users can connect to multiple data sources,
transform and clean data, visualize and create reports. Power BI Desktop is a user-friendly
advanced platform supporting all of
Power BI proficiency.
- Admins can easily connect to multiple
data sources and merge the data
from into one data model which is known
as modeling. The data models structure the imported information (data),
developing an association with data
values, admins can also represent the
data in the form of a variety of visualizations available in Power BI Desktop.
It enables users to share models made in
Power BI as reports and dashboards to other users for analysis and
collaboration.
What are the Functions and Uses of Power BI Desktop?
1. Connecting to data
- Power BI Desktop enables the connection to the data source in order to search for data. the Get Data option in Power BI Desktop, permit users to select from a general list of available data sources.
2. Convert and clean data
- As soon as a user connect to a data
source, they can convert and clean
their data, Power BI in-built Power
Query Editor is provided for users.
In
the Power Query Editor, users can rename the
table, change the data type, remove or add columns, apply filters, and merge
data from multiple sources.
Whatever actions users apply using the
Query Editor, it will be recorded and registered in the system. By doing so,
the same data transformation and cleaning steps will be applied automatically
every time a user opens the data source.
3.Creating visualizations
- Once the data is transformed and loaded
to Power BI Desktop, users can create visualizations using the data model. a set
of visualizations in the Visualizations pane
The properties of the visualization like legend, values, formats, font, color, size, background, title,
filters, etc are adjustable. Power BI Desktop has a wide range of tools to simply visualization tasks.
4.Creating reports
- Power BI Desktop provides users a well-structured set of tools to create
informative and appealing reports. A report is a collection of visualizations that give an
informative account and vision to the
imported data. A report
in Power BI Desktop can consist of one or more pages.
5.Sharing reports
- Publishing a report to Power BI Service requires a Power BI license. So users can
share the report at any location of Power BI Service such as personal
workspace, team workspace.
What are the Benefits of Power BI Desktop?
-Power BI Desktop has become the
user’s favorite BI tool; Because of
users friendly platform so what made it so popular among users:
- It is connected to a range of on-premise as well as cloud-based data sources such as Salesforce, Azure SQL DB, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and Excel. Power BI Desktop offers features of automated refresh of data from the data source.
- data preparation is a great time saver. Power BI Desktop offers self-service data modeling tools which efficiently helps in data preparation and data model.
- Power BI Desktop provides advanced analytics operations such as DAX formula language, quick measures, grouping, forecasting, Excel integration, and clustering.
- It allows the user to create visualization-rich dashboards and reports. for formatting and layout tools available in Power BI Desktop.
- mobile-optimized reports so that viewers can use instantly. In addition to this, users can publish reports and apps to the cloud or on-premise platforms. In addition to embedding Power, BI Desktop reports into apps or websites.
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