“In the future there will be those that moved early to adopt the new approach and are leading from the front, and there will be those that couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t, and got left behind in the dust…” Matt Allington shares on his blog the list of Top Reasons You Should Consider Using Power BI in Your Organisation:
- It’s Microsoft (the new Microsoft)
- Power BI is built from the ground up on SSAS heritage
- Power BI is built from the ground up on SSIS heritage
- Power BI will ingest data from virtually any source
- Power BI is highly compressed and performant
- Power BI has a brand new visualisation engine
- Power BI also has open source visualisations
- Power BI is built for users familiar with Excel, but it’s not Excel
- Power BI is in the cloud…
- Unless it’s not in the cloud
- Power BI has mobile apps
- You can subscribe via eMail – but please don’t!
- Power BI can be embedded into your own custom apps
- Power BI is very cheap to buy
- Power BI is easy to use (and hence cheap to train users)
- Power BI has a modelling engine that power users can learn
- Power BI has data loading tools that power users can learn
- Power BI is self service BI…
- Except when its not self service BI
- Power BI has consolidation dashboards
- Power BI gets better every day – literally!
- Power BI has a massive user community
- The Power BI user community decides what’s important
- Power BI has a natural language query engine
- Power BI has quick insights for automatic analysis
- Power BI seamlessly integrates with Excel (no need for export)
- Power BI seamlessly integrates with PowerPoint
- Power BI has R Integration
- Power BI has Esri Integration
- Gartner Loves Microsoft