Power BI
Uncover powerful insights and turn them into impact
Connect to and visualize any data, and seamlessly infuse visuals into the apps you use every day.
Product overview
Create a data-driven culture with BI for all
- Turn your data into visuals with advanced data-analysis tools, AI capabilities, and a user-friendly report-creation tool.
- Create datasets from any source and add them to the OneLake data hub to create a source of truth for your data.
- Help users make better decisions by infusing insights into the apps they use every day, like those in Microsoft 365.
- Reshape how your organization accesses, manages, and acts on data by activating Microsoft Fabric in your Power BI experience.
- Transform petabytes with enterprise-grade ingestion and semantic modeling in a tool that can scale across thousands of users.
- Easily embed and share reports in your other Microsoft services, including Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power Platform.
- Employ easy-to-use AI features that can find patterns in data, create reports instantly, provide answers, and more.
- Meet your requirements and gain end-to-end visibility with Microsoft governance, security, and compliance.
- Create reports in seconds, generate DAX calculations, create summaries, and get answers, all in conversational language.
- Quickly create and tailor reports by simply describing what you want or asking questions about your data.
- Understand your data faster by adding insightful text summaries, and even tailor the tone, scope, and style of narratives.
- Use Copilot across the Power BI experience including in the explore feature to summarize your semantic models and in the DAX query view to write and explain DAX queries.
- Enable users without paid licenses to interact with reports and access the rest of your Microsoft Fabric workloads.
- Establish an open data hub with OneLake to help data engineers connect and curate data from different sources.
- Employ the suite of Microsoft Fabric workloads to integrate, process, analyze, monitor, and visualize your data.
- Responsibly connect people and data using an open and scalable solution that gives data stewards additional control.
- License individual users with modern, self-service analytics for publishing reports and viewing content.
- Enable users to create reports and publish them to share with their coworkers, helping to foster self-service BI.
- Get Power BI Pro with other Microsoft 365 apps and industry-leading Microsoft security for one low price per user.
- Author reports for your own use or view Power BI content hosted in a Power BI Premium or Microsoft Fabric shared capacity.
- Use the free app to connect, model, and visualize data with an easy-to-use report canvas and hundreds of visuals.
- Sign up for the Microsoft Fabric free trial to explore the full suite of services—including everything Power BI has to offer.
- Get step-by-step guidance and explore key Power BI capabilities by taking Microsoft training courses.
Use cases
See what you can do with Power BI
Establish a governed source of truth
Connect all your disparate data sources in the same environment to establish a single source of truth for all your data.
Unify enterprise scale and self service
Combine enterprise-scale and self-service BI to drive insights and innovation at every level of your organization.
Infuse data experiences everywhere
Bridge the gap between insights and decisions through interoperation with the apps people use every day.
Empower anyone to work with data
Ensure everyone can explore data with an easy-to-use interface, free training resources, and an array of accessibility features.
Get started immediately
Start quickly with an easy-to-use report-creation experience, AI-generated reports, and hundreds of report templates.
Embed BI reports for your customers
Improve usability and user engagement in your own apps by using Power BI Embedded to embed stunning reports.
Drive productivity with Power BI + Microsoft 365
Learn how businesses drove productivity by combining Power BI and Microsoft 365 in The Total Economic ImpactTM Microsoft-commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.1
RESEARCH AND NEWS
Independent research and news
Microsoft was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the June 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.2
Learn about potential cost savings and business benefits enabled by Microsoft Fabric in The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Fabric, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.3
Read about the latest Power BI innovations.
Free account
Create rich, interactive reports with visual analytics at your fingertips for free.
Free
Create rich, interactive reports with visual analytics at your fingertips for free.
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Power BI in Microsoft Fabric
Share reports with users who don’t have paid licenses and get access to Microsoft Fabric workloads using a single capacity.
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Share reports with users who don’t have paid licenses and get access to Microsoft Fabric workloads using a single capacity.
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Interoperability
Powerful alone, better together
Microsoft Power Platform
Turn ideas into impactful solutions
Embed insights from Power BI across your Power Platform products to build low-code, data-driven solutions that help everyone get more done.
Microsoft Azure
Connect Power BI across your data estate
Add Power BI reports to Azure apps, analyze petabytes of Azure data in Power BI, and infuse your reports with advanced AI capabilities and insights.
Microsoft 365
Get deeper insights in Microsoft 365 apps
Empower business users to explore and share data in the Microsoft apps they use every day—Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint.
Microsoft Purview
Manage, govern, and secure your data
Get easy data discovery, data cataloging, and sensitivity labeling in a unified view using Power BI and Microsoft Purview.
Dynamics 365
Turn data into impact in business apps
Connect your Dynamics 365 data to Power BI and embed AI-driven reports in your business applications so users can take informed actions quickly.
Security
Gain visibility into your data estate
Get peace of mind with built-in security features and interoperation with leading security and governance solutions.
Customer stories
Real customers, real results
“In the last year alone, we’ve eliminated almost 10,000 manual hours through Microsoft-powered automation. That’s time we now spend creating business value.”
Jerod Ridge, Director of Data Engineering, Lumen
“We were looking for a tool that would allow us to work with the BI self-service model and at a compatible cost.”
Marcia Castro, Manager of Engineering and Data Architecture, C&A
“At Walmart, we use a myriad of different vendors in our technology stack, so having a tool like Power BI that can bring everything together was critical.”
Micah Dail, Director, Finance Data & Analytics, Walmart
”Kaya elevates customer experience and operational efficiency with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power BI.”
4%
Year-over-year growth in sessions booked
11%
Increase in collections from new customers
“With the new platform and Power BI, we’ve democratized customer insights across the company. Insights are no longer siloed but available to all relevant teams ...”
Nicole Nelson, Senior Vice President of Data and Analytics, Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Resources
Explore everything Power BI has to offer
Free trial
Get started with Power BI
Find insights within your data and share rich analytics reports.
Desktop app
Get Power BI Desktop
Create rich, interactive reports with visual analytics at your fingertips.
Mobile app
Get the mobile app
Securely access and view live Power BI dashboards and reports on any device, with native mobile apps for Windows, iOS, and Android.
On premises
Try Power BI Report Server
Get a free trial of the on-premises solution for reporting with the flexibility to move to the cloud.
Courses
Learn how to use Power BI
Take hands-on guided learning courses to help you meet your goals quickly, gain confidence, and learn at your own pace.
Documentation
Read technical documentation
Get expert information and answers to address your needs, no matter how you use Power BI.
Blog
Read the Power BI Blog
Get the latest news, feature updates, and product announcements.
Support
Get Power BI and Microsoft Fabric support
Check service status and get technical support for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric.
Community
Get expert support and tips
Discover useful tips and advice from the Power BI team by connecting with Power BI community members around the world.
Frequently asked questions
Power BI is a unified, scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI). Connect to and visualize any data, and infuse the visuals into the apps you use every day.
Power BI licenses aren’t exclusive—there are several ways to mix and match plans and licenses. For example, you could purchase Premium (P-SKU) or Microsoft Fabric (F-SKU) capacity to host the most popular reports, and then buy Power BI Pro licenses (or get them through Microsoft 365 E5) for your users who need to create and publish reports. Contact a sales expert to learn more.
Microsoft Power BI Embedded is a pay-as-you-go Azure platform as a service (PaaS) offering. It allows app developers to embed fully interactive reports into their apps without having to build their own data visuals and controls.
Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics solution with full-service capabilities including data movement, data lakes, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, data monitoring, and business intelligence—all backed by a shared platform providing robust data security, governance, and compliance.
Power BI provides the industry-leading BI inMicrosoft Fabric that enables you to gain insights from data. Power BI Premium customers can simply turn on the Fabric tenant setting and access the rest of the product in a unified experience. And with its unified capacity model, Power BI Premium per capacity can be used against any Microsoft Fabric workload.
Power BI Pro customers can access Fabric workloads only through the Microsoft Fabric trial experience.
Feature availability depends on both SKU and capacity level. See the features list for specific details.
Take the next step
Start using Power BI for free
Find insights within your data and share rich analytics reports by trying Power BI free in Microsoft Fabric.
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- [1]The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Power BI Pro in Microsoft 365 E5, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, July 2023. Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers. As of October 2023, some Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites no longer include Microsoft Teams. Subscribers to those plans must purchase a Teams license separately.
- [2]Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Anirudh Ganeshan, Edgar Macari, Jamie O'Brien, Kurt Schlegel, Christopher Long, 16 June 2025.
Gartner is a registered trademark and service mark and Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. - [3]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Fabric, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, May 2024.