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- 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.
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- 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.
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Power BI is a unified, scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI). Connect to and visualize any data, and seamlessly 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 in Microsoft Fabric that enables you to gain insights from data. Power BI Premium per capacity 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.
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- [1]Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers. 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. 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.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Kurt Schlegel, Anirudh Ganeshan, David Pidsley, Julian Sun, Georgia O’Callaghan, Christopher Long, Kevin Quinn, Fay Fei, Edgar Macari, Jamie O’Brien, June 20, 2024.
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- [3]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Fabric, A Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Microsoft, May 2024. Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers.