Introduction to Power BI

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         Microsoft Power BI is a collection of apps, software services and connectors that come together to turn unrelated data into visually impressive and interactive insights. Power BI can work with simple data sources like Microsoft Excel and complicated ones like cloud-based or on-premises hybrid Data warehouses. Power BI has the capabilities to easily connect to your data sources, visualise and share and publish your findings with anyone and everyone.

        Power BI is simple and fast enough to connect to an Excel workbook or a local database. It can also be robust and enterprise-grade, ready for extensive modeling and real time analytics. This means it can be used in a variety of environments from a personal report and visualisation tool to the analytics and decision engine behind group projects, divisions, or entire corporations.

        As Power BI is a Microsoft product and has built in connections to Excel, there are many functions that will be familiar to an Excel user.

         Power BI constitutes of a Microsoft Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop, an online SaaS (Software as a Service) called Power BI Service and a mobile Power BI apps that can be accessed from Windows phones and tablets, and also available on Apple iOS and Google Android devices.


These three elements

 Desktop, the Service, and Mobile apps - are the backbone of the Power BI system and lets users create, share and consume the actionable insights in the most effective way.

        The use of Power BI could depend on the role that you are in. For example: if you are the stakeholder of a project, then you might want to use Power BI Service or the Mobile app to have a glance at how the business is performing. But on the other hand, if you are a developer, you would be using Power BI Desktop extensively to publish Power BI desktop reports to the Power BI Service.


Power BI Flow

    Generally, the flow starts at the Power BI Desktop, where a report is created. This created report can be published to the Power BI Service and finally shared so that the users can use it from the Mobile apps.

    This is the most common approach for sharing reports. There are other approaches but we will stick to this flow for this entire tutorial to help learn the different aspects of Power BI.

The basic building blocks in Power BI are:

Visualizations

Datasets

Reports

Dashboards

Tiles


The common flow of activity in Power BI looks like this:

1.Bring data into Power BI Desktop, and create a report.

2.Publish to the Power BI service, where you can create new visualizations or build dashboards.

3.Share dashboards with others, especially people who are on the go.

4.View and interact with shared dashboards and reports in Power BI Mobile apps

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