Microsoft released Power BI as a beta earlier this year, and the new service is finally ready to exit preview and become generally available this month.
Microsoft built Power BI around three essential components: datasets, reports, and dashboards.
Power BI can draw content from a firm’s data, and leverage connections to multiple sources such as: Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server Analysis Services and more.
Power BI currently supports 44 languages and will also work on multiple platforms.
Preview builds are already available for Android and iOS, as well as Windows, and the final release will hit mobile versions as well.
Power BI Freemium Model:
Interested customers can try out Power BI for free if they sign up with their business email address, but the free tier comes with a 1 GB data cap per user and allows users to update their data only once a day. A Power BI Pro subscription will be available for $9.99 per month for each user, boosting data capacity to 10 GB and allowing users to refresh their data every hour, in addition to other benefits.
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