What is Power BI?
Connect to and visualize any data using the unified, scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI) that’s easy to use and helps you gain deeper data insight.
Bridge the gap between data and decision making
Create amazing data experiences
Easily connect to, model, and visualize your data, creating memorable reports personalized with your KPIs and brand. Get fast, AI-powered answers to your business questions—even when asking with conversational language.
Gain insight from your largest BI deployments
Make the most of your big data investments by connecting to all your data sources with the scale to analyze, share, and promote insights across your organization while maintaining data accuracy, consistency, and security.
Make decisions with confidence
Work together easily on the same data, collaborate on reports, and share insights across popular Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Teams and Excel—empowering everyone in your organization to quickly make data-driven decisions that drive strategic actions.
Optimize your business intelligence with trusted Microsoft technologies
End-to-end data protection
Better protect your data across Power BI reports, dashboards, and data sets with persistent protection that keeps working even when shared outside your organization or exported to other formats such as Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF.
Better together
Extensive data connectors
With a growing library of 120+ free connectors, everyone gets a complete picture for data-driven decision making. Connect directly to hundreds of on-premises and cloud data sources such as Dynamics 365, Azure SQL Database, Salesforce, Excel, and SharePoint.
Watch Power BI in action
See how easy it is to create reports, collaborate on dashboards, and share insights—inside and outside your organization—with user-friendly tools for self-service and enterprise BI.
Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a Leader for the thirteenth consecutive year in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligent Platforms.
See results from Power BI customers
“We are going in the direction of retiring OBIEE reporting. Our choice is to replace it with Power BI. Having datasets in Azure made it easier to start pivoting in that direction.”
David Dvorak
Lead Technology Architect, Cerner
“Ever since we’ve had Power BI here at Cummins, we’ve been very popular. Everyone likes Power BI, and everyone wants Power BI.”
Shakir Syed
Enterprise BI Reporting and Analytics Leader, Cummins
“As we grew, we needed something more dynamic, more visually appealing, and more user friendly for our colleagues. Power BI fits the bill in all of those respects.”
Bruce Rioch
Director of Microsoft Technologies and BI, Metro Bank
“We have insight, accountability, transparency, and the ability to democratize data throughout the organization—we’re empowering everyone to make better decisions.”
Edson Crevecoeur
Vice President of Strategy and Data Analytics, Miami HEAT
“With Power BI, you don’t have to be a data scientist to create a decent dashboard that quickly answers questions. When more employees can access actionable information, there’s an increase in better decision making.”
Steve Fernandez
Global Chief Technology Officer, L’Oréal
Choose Power BI for self-service and enterprise business intelligence
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