Getting started building with Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a collection of software services, applications, and connectors. They work together to transform unrelated data sources into coherent information, in a visually immersive and, above all, interactive way, facilitating the exploitation of the data afterward.
Data can be diverse – for example, a Microsoft Excel data workbook or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses. Power BI makes it easy to connect to these data sources, view (or exploit) what is important, and share it according to permissions or for everyone by being public.
Power BI has a Microsoft Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop, an online Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) service called the Power BI service, but another mobile version is available on any device using the native BI mobile application for Windows, iOS, and Android apps.
In the next section, we will see how to install and configure Power BI Desktop...
