It’s probably one of the most exciting additions to Microsoft’s stable of offerings since Office 365 came out, but what can Power BI do for your business? Before getting to that pressing question, let’s have a quick look at what it has done for some other companies.
As you by now know, Power BI is Microsoft’s cloud business intelligence/analytics software which delivers plenty of amazing features, including data visualisations, automated alerts and smartphone compatibility (how cool to have your phone remind you how business is going).
When those features are put to use in real, live businesses, impressive results follow.
Check out these three quick case studies at Microsoft:
This ‘rapid fire’ set of use cases is particularly handy because it demonstrates the flexibility of the Power BI toolset. Any organisation (yours included!) which has plenty of data, or plenty of data sources, at its disposal, could potentially use it to either improve efficiencies, identify new opportunities or more accurately speak to different customer segments.
If your business is data intensive and you’re using a heap of spreadsheets to manage and analyse it all, then Power BI is likely to be a total shoo-in: give it a go, and you’ll probably discover time savings, new insights and of course, new ways of looking at information which makes it that much more interesting and engaging.
There’s another Microsoft source of information worth looking at here which outlines multiple use cases for Power BI. Whether marketing, sales, customer support or for high-level business decision-makers, this is an analytics toolset that can make a difference.
The real question is, what kind of a difference can it make for you? That’s something we’d love to explore with you. Give us a shout for a ‘no obligations’ discussion – when our experts and yours put heads together, data magic is likely to happen.