Microsoft Power BI Services


What is Microsoft Power BI?  

Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights


Whether your data is a simple Microsoft Excel workbook, or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses, Power BI lets you easily connect to your data sources, visualize (or discover) what's important, and share that with anyone or everyone you want.

Let's see the below image for overview,

How Power BI works with other data


Power BI can be simple and fast, capable of creating quick insights from an Excel workbook or a local database. But Power BI is also robust and enterprise-grade, ready not only for extensive modeling and real-time analytics, but also for custom development. Therefore, it can be your personal report and visualization tool, but can also serve as the analytics and decision engine behind group projects, divisions, or entire corporations.  


The Parts of Power BI

 Power BI consists of a Microsoft Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop, an online SaaS (Software as a Service) service called the Power BI service, and mobile Power BI apps that are available on Windows phones and tablets, and also on Apple iOS and Google Android devices. 

The parts of Power BI


These three elements—Desktop, the service, and Mobile apps—are designed to let people create, share, and consume business insights in the way that serves them, or their role, most effectively.

What are Building Blocks of Power BI?

There are type of methods Power BI can be represented.

Here are the basic building blocks in Power BI,

Visualizations

Datasets

Reports

Dashboards

Tiles

Let's explore how these building block actually works - Set of building blocks


Now, let's see what a role can be applied in Power BI.

It is important to choose building blocks based on your role on a project or a team. And other people might use Power BI differently - here is one