Microsoft Power BI

In the age of data-driven organizations, it is essential for organizations to gain quick and effective insight into their data. Power BI, a powerful business intelligence tool from Microsoft, enables companies to visualize and analyze data, enabling more informed decisions. As part of our partnership with Microsoft, Valid offers comprehensive support in implementing and optimizing Power BI solutions.

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What is Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that provides deep insights through data visualization. It enables users to connect to hundreds of data sources, transform data and create reports that can be shared inside and outside the organization. With interactive dashboards and rich visual elements, Power BI helps users discover trends, identify patterns and make data-driven decisions.

Data visualization: the story behind data

Data is enormously valuable when visualized in the right way. Data that was previously static suddenly tells a story, and data insights come to life. This can lead to faster and better decisions, reducing time-to-market and maintaining control over key processes and assets. With Microsoft Power BI, you develop, build and maintain BI reports and dashboards and is the solution for powerful data visualization.

The benefits of Power BI

  1. User-friendly interface: Power BI provides an intuitive interface that allows users to easily create reports and dashboards without the need for extensive technical knowledge.
  2. Powerful data connectivity: With support for a wide range of data sources, from Excel files to cloud-based databases, Power BI provides extensive data integration and analysis capabilities.
  3. Real-time analytics: Power BI enables real-time analysis of data, allowing users to react immediately to changes and trends.
  4. Collaboration and sharing: The cloud-based architecture allows reports and dashboards to be easily shared and edited together, promoting collaboration within teams.
  5. Security and compliance: Power BI meets the highest security and compliance requirements, ensuring secure data processing and storage.
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Integration of Power BI

Power BI offers extensive capabilities for integrating with existing systems and databases, giving you access to all relevant data insights in one central place. Using data connectors, Power BI can connect to a wide range of data sources, including SQL Server, Oracle, Salesforce, Azure SQL Database, Excel files and more. This integration allows data from various systems to be merged and analyzed in a single platform.

Datasets that are always up to date

One of the key features of Power BI is the ability to continuously update data sets. For example, by establishing direct interfaces with databases or using APIs for real-time data flow. DirectQuery allows users to retrieve live data without storing copies of the data in the Power BI service. This means that the data is always current, since every time a user opens a report, the latest data is retrieved directly from the source.

The possibilities of data visualization with Power BI

  • Interactive dashboards: Users can create dynamic dashboards with interactive elements such as filters and slicers to dive deeper into the data.
  • Diversity of visualizations: Power BI offers a wide range of visualizations, such as charts, maps, treemaps and gauges, to present data in a variety of ways.
  • Real-time data display: By integrating real-time data streams, visualizations can be continuously updated with the latest information.
  • Custom visuals: In addition to standard options, users can import or create custom visualizations to meet specific data display needs.
  • Data drillthrough and drilldown: Users can easily drill down on detailed data within a report to gain deeper insights.
  • Geographic data: Built-in map visualizations allow users to visualize and analyze geographic data based on location data.
  • Conditional formatting: Users can set visual cues, such as color coding, to highlight certain trends or exceptions within the data.
  • Integration of AI and Machine Learning: Power BI uses built-in AI capabilities to make predictions and perform advanced data analysis.

Use cases of Microsoft Power BI

The possibilities of data visualization are endless. Data-driven work is an opportunity for any organization and any team. Data can play an important role in every industry and every situation. Power BI is the essential, powerful tool here, helping you visualize and present the story behind the data in an accessible way.

A selection of use cases from Power BI:

  • Sales and marketing analytics: Power BI helps companies visualize sales trends and customer behavior, allowing marketing campaigns to be optimized.
  • Financial overview and reporting: Companies use Power BI to analyze financial performance and ensure compliance with reporting rules.
  • Supply Chain Management: Power BI improves supply chain efficiency by providing real-time data on inventory and logistics.
  • HR Analytics: Power BI provides insight into employee data, enabling HR teams to develop strategies for better employee engagement and retention.
  • Customer service and support: Companies use Power BI to analyze customer service performance to improve the user experience.

Note: This is just a small sample of the unprecedented possibilities. What is your challenge? We are sure there are dashboards and reports to create that will support and improve your processes and decision making.

How Valid can support with data visualization

We understand that every organization has unique needs when it comes to data analysis and data visualization. That's why we first engage with you extensively to understand your business and identify needs. Then we get to work developing, building and managing powerful Power BI reporting and dashboards. But it doesn't stop here for us. We want to encourage and help your organization and colleagues to get started themselves. We lay the foundation, while at the same time ensuring that your colleagues have the knowledge and skills to build dashboards and reports themselves.

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