Power BI

Implement Power BI within your organisation to provide convenient access to interactive reports and dashboards, perform self-service data analysis, and enable user collaboration through shared reports.

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How we can help you using Power BI

AGER BI can help your organisation by transforming raw data into meaningful, interactive visualisations and insights.

We can connect various data sources, clean and prepare the data for analysis, and design customised dashboards that align with your organisational objectives.

By helping to streamline reporting processes and create real-time, self-service BI solutions, we will empower your organisation with accessible and actionable insights.

What is Power BI?

Power BI is a powerful business analytics tool that allows individuals and organisations to visualise, analyse, and share data in a way that makes information more accessible and actionable.

With its intuitive interface, Power BI empowers users to connect to a wide range of data sources, transform data, create interactive reports, and build dashboards all in one platform.

Whether the user is a business analyst, a data scientist, or an executive looking to make data-driven decisions, Power BI is designed to help extract meaningful insights and improve performance.

Components

Power BI Desktop: A free desktop application that enables users to connect to data, transform it, and create reports and visualisations on a local machine. This version is ideal for individual users or small teams.
Power BI Service (PowerBI.com): A cloud-based platform that allows users to publish, share and collaborate on reports and dashboards. It offers additional features such as scheduling data refreshes and setting up alerts for specific data conditions.
Power BI Mobile: An app that allows users to access reports and dashboards on a mobile device, ensuring that users are always connected to their data.
Power BI Embedded: A solution designed for developers who want to embed interactive Power BI reports and dashboards into applications or websites.
Power BI Premium: A paid service that offers enhanced features for large organisations, including larger dataset capacity, faster performance, and dedicated cloud resources. Premium users also get access to AI-driven capabilities and on-premises Power BI Report Server.

Key Features

Data Connectivity

Power BI allows users to connect to a variety of data sources, whether they are cloud-based, on-premises, or from a third-party service. These include databases like SQL Server, Excel files, web services, and popular applications like Salesforce, Google Analytics, and many others. With Power BI’s wide range of connectors, integrating data from multiple sources into a unified report or dashboard is seamless.

Data Transformation & Modelling

Once data is imported, Power BI provides robust tools for transforming and cleaning data. With Power Query, users can perform tasks like filtering, grouping, merging, and shaping data to fit reporting needs. For more complex tasks, Power BI also offers a rich set of data modelling capabilities, allowing users to create relationships between tables and build calculated columns, measures, and custom metrics using DAX (Data Analysis Expressions).

Interactive Reports & Dashboards

Power BI’s visual interface enables users to create interactive reports and dashboards. It offers a variety of built-in visualisations, such as bar charts, line graphs, maps, pie charts, and more. Additionally, users can customise the look and feel of reports to align with an organisation’s branding or design preferences. Dashboards can also combine multiple reports and visualisations in a single view, providing a holistic picture of an organisation’s data.

Natural Language Query (Q&A)

One of Power BI’s standout features is its Natural Language Query functionality. Users can type questions in natural language (e.g., “What is the total sales for this year?”) and Power BI will automatically generate the appropriate visual or report in response. This makes it easy for users without a technical background to interact with data and extract insights quickly.

Real-Time Data & Collaboration

Power BI allows users to track and visualise real-time data by connecting to live data sources and streaming services. This capability is essential for businesses that need up-to-the-minute information to make informed decisions. Additionally, Power BI supports collaboration by allowing users to share reports and dashboards securely with team members and stakeholders, whether inside or outside the organisation.

Mobile Access

With the Power BI mobile app, users can access reports and dashboards from anywhere in the world. This feature ensures that decision-makers have access to critical insights wherever they are, whether they’re traveling, working from home, or at a client meeting. The app is available for both iOS and Android devices.

Advanced Analytics

For more sophisticated data analysis, Power BI integrates with machine learning models and statistical tools, allowing users to perform predictive analytics and trend forecasting. Users can also integrate with R and Python scripts to carry out custom analyses and data visualisations.

Benefits

Power BI offers a wide range of benefits, including its ability to transform raw data into interactive and visually compelling reports.

It enables users to easily connect to multiple data sources, create real-time dashboards, and share insights with colleagues across the organisation.

With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, it allows both technical and non-technical users to perform data analysis, while its advanced analytics features, like AI-driven insights and predictive analytics, help businesses make informed decisions quickly.

Moreover, Power BI’s scalability ensures it meets the needs of both small teams and large enterprises.

Improved Decision Making

Cost-effective

Collaboration

Real-Time Analysis

Data Governance

Scalability

Robust Security

Ease of Use

Use

Power BI is suitable for use in a wide range of situations, including:

Finance

Visualising financial performance, analysing cash flow, creating budget vs. actual reports, and performing trend analysis.

Marketing

Monitoring campaign performance, analysing customer segmentation, and visualising website traffic data.

Sales

Tracking sales performance, monitoring customer data, and identifying sales trends.

Healthcare

Analysing patient data, monitoring hospital performance metrics, and visualising treatment outcomes.

Operations

Optimising supply chain management, tracking production KPIs, and improving operational efficiency.

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Free consultation

Schedule a free, no obligation consultation with our certified solutions experts to understand how AGER BI can assist with your data needs.

Deep dive and strategy

If you choose to work with us, we’ll design a strategy outlining how we can tackle your biggest pain points immediately, with a plan of action to transform you into a successful state-of-the-art data-driven business.

World-class business intelligence solution

We will implement the strategy phase by phase to deliver you a truly world-class cloud-based business intelligence solution that will transform your business.

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