Power BI is an Analytics and Business Intelligence platform. Microsoft defines it as ‘a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights’.
Power BI consists of:
- A Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop
- An online SaaS (Software as a Service) called the Power BI service
- Power BI mobile apps for Windows, iOS, and Android devices
Working with these 3 elements, a data analyst creates the content using data and distribute it to the stakeholders, the users of the content.
‘As a designer, your typical workflow is usually to start by creating reports in Power BI Desktop. Then you publish them to the Power BI service, where you can continue modifying them. You also create the dashboards based on your reports in the Power BI service.’ Microsoft Docs
In the previous part, we worked with Power BI Desktop, prepared reports, the sales report and the sales dashboard (which is still a report on the PBI desktop). In this part, we will work with the Power BI Service and mobile apps.
Power BI service runs on the cloud and it does not create a downloadable file. You can download reports or presentations but the reports and dashboards prepared on the cloud can be examined on the cloud. So for this part, we will not create a pbix file, we will do some downloads, and we will share the dashboards and reports online.
Go on with the workshop on Power BI Service.