Power BI
Power BI is 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.
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Your data may be an Excel spreadsheet or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses. Power BI lets you easily connect to your data sources, visualize and discover what's important, and share that with anyone or everyone you want. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform.
The five major building blocks of Power BI are: dashboards, reports, workbooks, datasets, and dataflows.
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How you use Power BI may depend on your role in a project or on a team. Other people, in other roles, might use Power BI differently. For example,
You might primarily use the Power BI service to view reports and dashboards.
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Your number-crunching, a business-report-creating coworker might make extensive use of Power BI Desktop or Power BI Report Builder to create reports, then publish those reports to the Power BI service, where you view them.
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Another coworker, in sales, might mainly use the Power BI phone app to monitor progress on sales quotas, and to drill into new sales lead details.
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If you're a developer, you might use Power BI APIs to push data into datasets or to embed dashboards and reports into your own custom applications.
