Discover Insights

Hidden In Your Data

Power BI is Microsoft’s self-service business intelligence (BI) tool that brings powerful data analytics to your employees and enables people at every level of your organization to make data-driven decisions.

Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables you to visualise and analyse data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of cloud-based and on-premises data through easy-to-use dashboards, interactive reports, and compelling visualisations that bring data to life.

Easily create and share interactive data visualisations using real time analytics from virtually any data source, to meet your reporting, compliance and regulation needs.

“Power BI has allowed us to automate mundane work, create efficient workflows, and make data-driven decisions.” – General Manager IT¹

Create A Culture of Data-Driven Decision Making

Enterprise scale self-service analytics

Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security risks of multiple solutions with an analytics platform that scales from individuals to the organisation as a whole.

Use smart tools for strong results

Find and share meaningful insights with hundreds of data visualisations, built-in AI capabilities, tight Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data connectors.

Help protect your analytics data

Keep your data secure with industry-leading data security capabilities including sensitivity labelling, end-to-end encryption, and real-time access monitoring.

Why Microsoft Power BI >

Customer Story: Knight Frank Australia

As part of a transition to the cloud, the Knight Frank team in Australia knew that harnessing their data assets via Power BI was essential to the plan.

“We manage portfolios like office buildings and shopping centres, and were able to use financial data around rents, outgoings, and electricity and water utilities, and analyse sustainability goals, in a number of initiatives.” Using Power BI and Analytics to create insights that would hold meaning and value to customers.

Read more about the Knight Frank team’s approach and results.

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Why Power BI?

Marketing

Review and analyse your marketing campaign data like never before. Collect campaign success metrics like ROI, CTR, Engagement etc. and display it all in one place for in-depth understandings of campaign performance.

Why Power BI?

Sales

Track and visualise all your goals, opportunities and deals in a single dashboard. Never let a deal slip through the cracks again.

Why Power BI?

Management

Make data-driven decisions with a crystal-clear view of your organisation’s key performance indicators with intuitive, sense-making dashboards.

Why Power BI?

Accounts / Financial

Share high level financial trends with business leaders in a digestible, easy-to-understand visual dashboard. Build reports with selected financial information to allow teams to self-serve otherwise sensitive data.

The Power of Power BI

Unify self-service and enterprise analytics

Meet both your self-service and enterprise data analytics needs on a single platform. Access powerful semantic models, an application lifecycle management (ALM) toolkit, an open connectivity framework, and fixed-layout, pixel-perfect paginated reports.

Create deeper, more helpful insights

Turn your data into a competitive advantage by using Power BI and Azure together to connect, combine, and analyse your entire data estate.

Find answers fast with industry-leading AI

Take advantage of the latest advances in Microsoft AI to help non-data scientists prepare data, build machine learning models, and find insights quickly from both structured and unstructured data, including text and images.

Improve publishing efficiency and accuracy of BI content

Quickly identify differences and move content from development and testing to production with confidence using the simple visual cues in deployment pipelines.

Get unparalleled Excel interoperation

Anyone who’s familiar with Microsoft 365 can easily connect Excel queries, data models, and reports to Power BI Dashboards—helping to quickly gather, analyse, publish, and share Excel business data in new ways.

Turn insights into action

Go from data to insights and insights to action with Microsoft Power Platform—combining Power BI with Power Apps and Power Automate to easily build business applications and automate workflows.

Is Microsoft Power BI right for your business?

To achieve a competitive advantage, modern businesses have to be smarter and more efficient in how they handle data. Microsoft Power BI, together with Azure, gives businesses a way to extract maximum value from their data and technology investments.

Data^#3’s Online Data & Analytics Assessment is a simple way to determine how and when your business could best deploy Microsoft Power BI to rapidly improve business outcomes. After you complete your Data & Analytics Assessment, a data specialist will contact you for a free evaluation of your data needs, and outline recommended next steps.

FAQ

How is Power BI licensed?

There are three common licensing plans for Power BI available:

Power BI Pro – a per user, per month subscription that provides core Power BI functionality. This is included with Microsoft 365 E5.
Power BI Premium per user – a per user, per month subscription that provides enhanced Power BI functionality such as paginated reports, larger data models, and more frequent data refreshes. It is available as an add-on to Microsoft 365 E5.
Power BI Premium Capacity – a per capacity, per month subscription that provides enhanced Power BI features for the whole organisation. Different capacities and autoscaling options are available depending on business requirements.

These Power BI pricing plans will meet the needs of most organisations. Additional licensing options include Power BI Embedded, designed to include reporting capabilities in your own customer facing applications, and Power BI Report Server, for those needing Power BI capabilities within their own data centre.

What's the difference between Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium?

Power BI Pro is an individual user license that allows access to all content and capabilities in the Power BI service. You can even share content and collaborate with other Pro users. Only Pro users can publish content to other workspaces, share dashboards, and subscribe to dashboards and reports.

Power BI Premium provides a capacity to deliver more consistent performance. It also supports larger data volumes in Power BI. For individual users, Premium enables widespread distribution of content by Pro users and it doesn’t require per user Pro licenses for recipients viewing the content. This means that business users can collaborate with colleagues and view and interact with dashboards, reports, and apps that have been shared with them.

What is a Power BI 'business user'?

What is Power BI Desktop?

Does Power BI support mobile devices?

As a 'business user', what do I need to use the Power BI service?

Which browsers does Power BI support?

Power BI is designed to work with any of the supported modern browsers mentioned below. However, performance differs depending on your choice of a browser. If you’re using Internet Explorer in particular, which is no longer supported by Power BI, you may encounter worse performance. We strongly recommend a supported modern browser, like Microsoft Edge. If you still encounter unacceptable performance, test other supported modern browsers to see if they provide better results for your Power BI solution.
Power BI supports these browsers on all platforms where they’re available:

Microsoft Edge Chromium.
Chrome desktop latest version.
Safari Mac latest version.
Firefox desktop latest version. Firefox may change the fonts used in Power BI.

* Power BI doesn’t run in any browsers in iOS10 or previous versions.

What data sources does Power BI support?

Build your business on secure data analytics

Apply sensitivity labels to Power BI data using Microsoft Information Protection in the familiar Microsoft 365 experience.

Extend data loss prevention and governance to your Power BI users (including report sharing) with Microsoft Cloud App Security.

Better meet privacy and regulatory requirements with oversight of sensitive data through bring your own key (BYOK).

Better protect your organizational data by using Power BI security with service tags, Azure Private Link, and Azure Virtual Network.

Why Data^#3?

Modernising the data estate starts with asking the following new questions:

How do we make our data discoverable, trustworthy, and understandable?
How can we unleash the power of AI and machine learning?
How do we govern and secure our data without hindering users from uncovering the insight they need?

Microsoft Power BI, gives businesses a way to extract maximum value from their data and technology investments.

As Microsoft largest Australian partner, an Azure Expert MSP provider and Microsoft Gold partner for Data Analytics, Data^#3’s Online Data & Analytics Assessment is a simple way to begin data modernisation.

We’ll help you determine how and when your business could best deploy Microsoft Power BI to rapidly improve business outcomes.

After you complete your Data & Analytics Assessment, a data specialist will contact you for a free evaluation of your data needs, and outline recommended next steps.