- What Power BI really is about, is helping you
drive a data culture.
Where every employee in your organization is making
decisions based on facts versus opinions.
And we do a number of things to make it possible
for you to drive a data culture.
I'm gonna talk to you about three really important
capabilities.
The first is what we refer to as our 5x5 experience.
Our goal at Power BI, is to help every single
business user sign into Power BI within seconds
and get real business value in minutes.
And the way we do this, is to make sure that
they're very quickly in their Power BI experience,
looking at these compelling looking reports and dashboards
that they can share and collaborate with their
colleagues and get the insights that help you drive
your business.
What we've done is we've worked very hard
to make sure that as a business user you can
not only look at your reports, but you can ask
questions in plain english.
And Power BI does the work to look at your data,
figure out what the answer is and visualize it for you.
But sometimes some of the insights are not obvious.
And this is where Power BI has released a capability
called Quick Insights, that automatically scan
your data and look for those insights that might
not be obvious and surface it for your business users.
We've also worked really hard to make sure
that Power BI not only works on the web,
but it has a fantastic mobile experience.
A lot of our customers use Power BI on IOS or Android,
and they find that these compelling looking
visualizations and reports go with them no matter
where they are.
The second area we've focused on is the work
we've done for Business Analysts.
Business Analysts are the folks that work
with Power BI desktop, to create this compelling
looking business reports that enable your business users.
Business Analysts use this tool called Power BI Desktop.
This is where they discover the data, this is where
they explore it, and this is where they build
the visualizations that make it possible for people
to get insights into their data.
Power BI ships with dozens of visualizations
out of the box.
But sometimes the visualizations we have may not
work for your industry or for your company.
This is where we've opened up our visualizations
pack, so that you can actually take Power BI
and build a visualization that represents your business.
As you can see in this particular slide,
where a customer has built a visualization of a
jet engine, and been able to map the faults
that they've see on the jet engine.
So you can build those visualizations that matter
to you and your business, or you can also build
those visualizations that matter for your industry.
And if you so choose, you can share these visuals
for others to consume through the Power BI app eco-system.
We have over 150 such visuals that are published in the
Power BI gallery, which you can use out of the box.
Another area that we've really invested in for Business
Analysts is we know that these Business Analysts
are heavy users of Excel.
And Power BI's done a lot of work to make it easy
for Excel users to come into Power BI.
Both Power BI and Excel are built on a share foundation.
So the way we get data is built on the power query
experience, the formula language is the same, it's
called DAX, Data Analysis Expressions.
You can pretty much bring any Excel content into
Power BI whether it's the data, or the data model,
or even the full Excel report itself.
You can also connect the other way around.
The data in Power BI is fully accessible in Excel.
So if you want to pivot it a certain way, if you want
to get some custom analytics, you can simply connect
Excel to Power BI and get the integration you're
looking for.
And as a result PC Magazine, for the last two years
in a row, has recognized Power BI Desktop with the
Editor's Choice award.
They recognize the value that Business Analysts get
with Power BI Desktop.
And this product that we just talked about is not
only an industry leading product, but it's also
something that is completely free.
So every Business Analyst can get started
with Power BI Desktop by simply going to powerbi.com
and downloading the product and getting working
on it right away.
So the third area we've invested in to drive
the data culture, is we recognize that it's important
to have a compelling product, but it's not very
useful unless you can get this in the hands
of every one of your users.
And this is where Power BI has come up with a
Disruptive Economic model.
Power BI can be purchased on a per user basis.
It's just $9.99 per user per month
and you can not only buy that through Power BI
Professional as a standalone product, but it's
also included in Office 365 E5.
But if you don't want to buy Power BI on a per
user basis, we also make Power BI available
on a capacity basis.
And this is called Power BI Premium and it makes
it very cost effective for you to be able to
roll out Power BI across parts of your organization,
and drive standardization on Power BI.
Not only does Power BI Premium allow you to license
up the capacity, and not pay on a per user basis,
but it also includes some additional capabilities
that provide even more value to you as an enterprise
customer.
So these are the three areas we've invested in,
and customers have really taken to Power BI.
So if you look at the adoption of Power BI,
it's pretty much across the world.