So what is Power BI?
And why you should care about
learning Power BI?
What Excel was for the 20th century, Power BI is for the
21st.
I started working in the 90s and I can't even imagine how
business was run before Excel.
I worked with finance, sales, marketing, operations and more
and everyone used Excel.
We used Excel to track our data, create reports, perform
analysis, basically to run the business.
Excel was crucial and integral for any business group and any
business professional.
Those not using Excel were at a great risk of becoming obsolete
and left behind.
The same thing has happened with Power BI in the 21st century.
Now, mind you, Power BI doesn't replace Excel.
But Excel and Power BI work together to create a brave new
world.
So let's fast forward to the 21st century and the old.
Excel does not work that well anymore, does it?
And you've already experienced that pain.
First, there's lots of data and in a lot of different places
scattered across our business systems.
Bringing all that together can be really challenging work in
Excel.
And that's just the start.
Business data is often not clean.
That means you may be spending hours of manual effort to clean
messy data.
And if that data is coming from different systems; let's say
sales and manufacturing, you often spend a lot of time
manually mapping these data sets just so you can get meaningful
reports.
How does all that change with Power BI?
Now, I'm going to warn you, if you're still living in that old
world, what I'm about to say is going to sound like science
fiction. Well, welcome to the future.
With Power BI, you can directly connect to multiple data
sources.
It has the longest list of data connectors of any BI tool out
there.
It has a full set of tools called Power Query to help you
clean, shape, and transform data.
That means you can clean messy data, map data coming from
different systems, and more, and everything refreshes with one
click or even automatically on a schedule you set.
No more wrestling with your data to make it work.
I'll also point out that Power BI is built for the business user.
So you don't have to be a programming nerd or a database guru
to use Power BI. And all that is just the beginning.
With your data now in one place, Power BI enables beautiful
interactive visualizations that feel truly modern and are easy,
almost fun to use.
So no more printed reports or PDFs.
No more emails flying back and forth with copies of reports.
Power BI reports can be opened on any computer, tablet or even
your smartphone, and I love that part.
It makes it so much easy for everyone to view the reports
they need.
The reports are fully interactive, so you can click on
any element to filter, drill down and get more details.
You can even ask questions by just typing your question in
natural language through the Q&A features.
How cool is that?
You can't do any of that in a static report.
So if you're ready to step into the 21st century, get started
with Power BI.
Just click the link in the corner to get my full Power BI
training program.