Power BI is an incredible platform for obtaining deep insights across every aspect of your organisation. Without a clear understanding of how it works, and the Power BI Connectors available - you'll miss out on the most valuable features of this platform.
Working with Power BI consultants brings a whole new world of insights to the way you use the platform. Whether it's to create meaningful reports or deliver insights that are truly valuable across your organisation, Tridant's consulting team will help you get the best out of your BI tool. In terms of business analytics tools, Power BI is a market leader for a reason. It offers so many layers of functionality, though, which can take time to understand and implement. Our experience with the Power BI platform will fast-track your organisational awareness, and bring a much higher return on investment because your team will have the knowledge to use it at the most efficient and focused levels. Tridant offers consulting across every aspect of the platform, from creating exceptional Power BI dashboards to getting the best out of your Power BI data.
Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business intelligence products and tools that can sit on top of any relational database or data warehouse to provide valuable business insights. Microsoft summarises it as a business analytics solution that allows users to visualise data and share insights in a more streamlined way across their entire organisation.
However, it's not just another business intelligence tool. Power BI has been recognised by Gartner as the leader in analytics and business intelligence platforms for 14 years running.
Easy data analysis, businesswide
Microsoft Power BI is designed to deliver powerful data analytics for any business user. Where other platforms may rely on a specific skill set and base-level understanding of analytics, Power BI has created a platform that delivers clear, easy-to-understand insight into metrics that make sense to your business.
Users can create rich customised dashboards that tap into deep data, using more targeted queries to create comprehensive reports that can be tailored towards specific business functions and user segments. Power BI works to clean up your business data, translating it into easy-to-understand, logical outputs, and presenting visualisations that are able to be understood by any user.
One useful feature of Power BI is its ability to translate data analytics into business-specific language. Users can input questions in a specific business vernacular or even natural, conversational language and receive in-depth answers and visualisations as a response.
A recent update delivered an intuitive interface that will be familiar to all regular Microsoft Office users, which helps new adoptees feel more at home with the platform, providing an easier transition and lower friction point to adoption.
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Access to real-time information
Seamless integration with the existing Microsoft 365 suite allows your business to drill down into all available data sources and gain a holistic view of business performance. It enables your entire organisation to access the same data, regardless of the business unit, allowing every user to get the same accurate, up-to-date information.
This empowers your business to break down silos, streamline communication, and deliver a larger data source from which to leverage information.
Dashboards are updated in real-time, ensuring the latest information is available on demand. This empowers users to act with certainty and enhances decision-making. More data sources can be added as your business grows, which integrate smoothly and seamlessly, enabling greater oversight of all business elements from the moment they come online.
Rather than the slow process of analysing the data, creating a report, and distributing the report to the necessary users, the data is refreshed and current as soon as the users access the dashboard. It's a faster, more accurate way to share and standardise information.
Better forecasting
Microsoft Power BI's powerful machine learning capabilities allow businesses to identify patterns and trends in all their available data. It combines rafts of historical data not otherwise available, and users can leverage this information to make better decisions for the future. Microsoft Power BI delivers more accurate forecasts based on real, tangible evidence, enabling businesses to operate with better flexibility and agility.
It's also available for organisations at every price point:
There are a vast array of data sources that can be connected to the Power BI platform, which are already formatted in a way that flows seamlessly. In some cases, you may need to manually load data in, but in almost every instance, you will be able to connect your existing data sources and systems.
Microsoft Power BI includes Power Apps, an enterprise tool that acts as a rapid development environment for users to create their own low-code or no-code, web-based business apps. These apps can be used as an interactive tool for various business scenarios and allow connection with the right business data.
Users can use Power Apps to build and deploy custom-designed apps that streamline the user experience, delivering the right information to the right people in a more meaningful way. These apps integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365, enabling easier data access and helping to improve business process automation. These apps can then be embedded into Power BI as a visualisation to help users write back to the database.
Working with a knowledgeable Power BI consulting company will ensure that you have the best advice and practices when it comes to consolidating your data sources into this platform.
It's estimated that the human race produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day—much of that through business. So it's critical that modern organisations leverage business intelligence tools and platforms that enable them to harness this data efficiently and effectively.
Power BI allows you to take what you need from the massive amounts of data that your organisation likely has, and rapidly hone in on processes and systems that have room for improvement. This is where automation comes in - once you have identified the areas that are creating inefficiencies, it's easy to start implementing automated processes.
Decision-making is enhanced when the right data is on hand. Power BI allows you to connect to many data sources, and leverage the deep insights from this data to make highly accurate data-driven decisions.
Tridant's Microsoft Power BI Consulting Services will help you to unlock the full potential of your data.
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