Six Reasons to Consider Microsoft Power BI
Summary
Financial reports show you how much cash flow you’ve got and, as someone once put it to me, how many weeks you have left until bankruptcy. The latter occurs when people are spending too much time extracting, massaging, transforming, and then aggregating data — generally in the #1 Business Intelligence tool in the world, Microsoft Excel. Because people have it, know how to use it and often perceive that spending a few hours to make it work in Excel every month is better than investing money into a “reporting platform.” If the platform under consideration is a SSAS cube, or Tableau, that might be true. Microsoft released Power BI a number of years ago, and did a pretty sizeable overhaul on it a few years later to turn it into what it is today — the reporting and analytics arm of the Microsoft Power Platform. Once you see the value it brings, you can build more and eventually replace all of those Excel spreadsheets with reports that automatically refresh data from source systems and provide real-time visibility into the health of your business.
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