Microsoft Power BI

Explore our range of Microsoft Power BI solutions.

Overview

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 organisation to make data-driven decisions.

Power BI 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, and interactive reports 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.

Why Power BI?

Marketing

Deep dive into campaign performance like never before. Combine customer engagement data across channels to compare success metrics of tactics. Track leads, website behavior and visualize your audience’s propensity to buy.

Sales

Track and visualise all your opportunities, quotes, renewals, margins and more in a single dashboard. Build forecasts and analyse pipeline by product, service, sales representative, GP and more. Never let a deal slip through the cracks again.

Management

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

Accounts

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.

Benefits

The power of Power BI

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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. Discover how Knight Frank deployed Power BI to remain competitive in the retail sector through COVID by offering new data services to their shopping centre tenants.

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Find answers fast with industry-leading AI

Enable anyone in your organisation to be a data scientist with the latest analytics and AI tools from Microsoft. Easily prepare data, build machine learning models and find insights quickly from both structured and unstructured data, including text and images.

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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.

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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. See our guide for replacing data panic with a data plan here.

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Secured by Microsoft 365

Apply sensitivity labels to Power BI data using Microsoft Information Protection in the Microsoft 365 security suite. Extend data loss prevention and governance to your Power BI users (including report sharing) with Microsoft Cloud App Security.

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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.

 

Solutions

Is Microsoft Power BI right for your business?

To stay ahead of the pack, modern businesses need to be able to ensure that their data is trustworthy and presented in a way that is easily accessible, in order to ensure they’re able to continue making smart, data-driven decision making. That’s why, no matter where you are on your Power BI Journey, Data#3 has a solution that can help you take the next step.

Which option best suits your business?

 

“I want to understand the benefits of Power BI for my organisation.”

1. Power BI Exploration Workshop

Data#3’s Power BI Exploration Workshop is best suited to those organisations who may be just getting started on their data journey and want to know more about how Power BI fits and what it can help you achieve.

The Power BI Exploration Workshop is a half-day workshop where our expert Data & Analytics team will work with you and your team to understand what’s possible with Power BI and what the best practices are for Power BI deployment and adoption.

Following your workshop, you’ll then be presented with a Power BI Success Plan, which outlines your current data analytics capabilities and how Power BI can help you get to where you want to be, as well as providing a roadmap that can be used as a model for developing Power BI reports and planning successful adoption.

“I want to get more out of my Power BI investment.”

2. Power BI Adoption Review

Data#3’s Power BI Adoption Review is best suited to those organisations who have already deployed Power BI but are struggling to achieve widespread adoption and realise the true potential of their investment.

There are two goals behind the Power BI Adoption Review: to identify the current state of Power BI usage across your organisation and any current barriers to adoption you may be experiencing and to provide guidance on how you can improve overall Power BI Adoption.

We achieve this by employing a number of complementary methods to make an initial assessment of where your Power BI adoption currently is and what gaps you’ll need help filling to improve it.

We then develop a set of strategies and recommendations based on best practices from our own decades of experience, the Data Management Body of Knowledge and Microsoft’s own best practice guidance that can be used to improve adoption within your organisation.

We also offer add-ons to the Power BI Adoption Review to improve business stakeholder engagement and to assess your broader data platform and data governance capabilities.

“I need an in-depth review of our Power BI investment.”

3. Data Platform Architecture Review

Data#3’s Data Platform Architecture Review is best suited to those organisations with well-established Power BI usage and a complex data environment that may have outgrown their initial Power BI implementation strategy.

Most Power BI implementation takes place organically, which works initially but as your organisation grows and your reporting needs become more complex, the way that your data is ingested and visualised can often lead to data quality issues. This in turn makes it increasingly difficult to trust the insights your data have to offer, meaning that you’re no longer making those data-driven decisions that help you stand out from the crowd.

The Data Platform Architecture Review addresses these challenges through a series of workshops, a technical health check of your Power BI configuration and a review of your existing data environment, in order to help you create a consolidated data single-source-of-truth and enable self-service Power BI reporting capabilities.

As part of the review, our expert Data & Analytics team will also walk you through a report that provides tangible recommendations on how you can improve your data, analytics and reporting platform.

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'?

The way you interact with Power BI will depend on your job role. As an end user or business user, you are the person who receives content (dashboards, reports, and apps) from colleagues. You work in the online or mobile version of Power BI, which is called the Power BI service, reviewing and interacting with this content, to make business decisions.

What is Power BI Desktop?

Power BI Desktop is a free application you can install right on your own computer. Power BI Desktop works cohesively with the Power BI service. Data scientists, report designers, admins, and developers work with Power BI Desktop to produce reports and make them available to the Power BI service business users, like you.

Does Power BI support mobile devices?

Yes. Power BI has native apps for Android phones and tablets, iOS devices, and Windows 10 devices.

 

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

If your company has purchased and assigned Power BI licenses or a Premium capacity account, all you’ll need is a Web browser and credentials. To log in, you’ll use your work email address and a password (the same credentials you use to sign into Microsoft 365).

 

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?

The following table shows the data sources that Power BI supports for datasets, including information about DirectQuery and the on-premises data gateway. See supported Power BI data sources here.

Featured webinar

Confident decision making with Power BI: Webinar series

Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four

Data, analytics and visualisation with Power BI

In this session, we highlight how Power BI is widely used by organisations, demonstrate best practices for user adoption and licensing and the various options you have with data visualisation and data modelling.

Improve data governance and speed up discovery with Azure Purview and Power BI

This session will take you through the steps to achieve better data governance, discovery, and how to ensure data remains classified and secured from source to report or dashboard.

How to get started with machine learning and Power BI

In this session, Data#3 will enhance your understanding of machine learning and explore the basic concepts. We will show how to create a simple model you can apply to your data and demonstrate a pretrained example.

Tools and data framework to modernise and migrate your data to Azure

In this session we cover the following:

  • Data modernisation overview
  • Why modernise, including tools and approaches
  • Example of a data modernisation assessment
  • First steps to transform your data estate
Customer stories

Working with data analytics aligned closely to our cloud project. We were able to take data coming from the cloud and visualise it.

Craig Holt - Head of Information Technology, Knight Frank Australia
Why Data#3?

Microsoft's largest Australian partner

Microsoft Power BI, gives businesses a way to extract maximum value from their data and technology investments, empowering you to make smart, data-based business decisions that ensure you’re always one step ahead.

As Microsoft largest Australian partner, an Azure Expert MSP provider and Microsoft Gold partner for Data Analytics, Data#3’s Power BI workshops and reviews are the perfect place to start when exploring the benefits of Power BI for your particular organisation.

All you have to do is fill out the form below and a member of our expert Data & Analytics team will be in touch to help you get started.

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