Microsoft Power BI Embedded

This product is very convenient to use and implement and is considered a "de facto" standard in the Business Intelligence sphere. First of all, it contains numerous features in terms of visualization, data provisioning, data source integration which makes it a perfect tool for the development of BI analytics. Secondly, it provides great capabilities for the development of data markets for the whole development team. Thirdly, the sharing capabilities of dashboards that are updated in a real-time manner provides great incentives for end-users.

The scenario where it shines more is in the treatment of data that is not easily correlated at first sight, it helps to find causes of unsuccess in productive environments. The only thing that is required is to have properly collected data to feed to Power BI, so it won't be useful in environments where the data is not collected with care, since the representations won't be representatives of the reality.

Well when you analyze data in Microsoft Power BI and create a dashboard with specific KPI that you want to track, then you want to display the information in your own webpage to show at the stake holders and your customer the results in real time, then you can save a lot of time. If you are not using Azure as your main software, then this can be a big problem.

If you need to pull in data from multiple sources to prepare your dashboard which you share with your customers, Power BI embedded can be a very good tool. You can use your brand colors and style for your company branding experience. You can also allow your user to add filters and sorts to do their own analysis on the go.

Microsoft Power BI is well-suited for firms that have a need for dashboard creation (e.g. KPI dashboards, financial dashboards, etc.) for the purposes of monthly/quarterly reviews, or even just to assess the financial health of their firm in a more visual way. Microsoft Power BI does a great job presenting interactive visuals to convey data better. Microsoft Power BI is likely less suited for firms that do not create or maintain dashboards, or for individuals/teams that are not a part of assessing the financial health of their company.

While working in a company is always necessary to look at reports and data from different sections. In my internship, I was placed in a team with over 40 people, and to help tackle a problem we needed to have a central area where we shared work and also shared data.

Well suited : Dashboard with slicing features for profitability kpi

Less appropriate: complex multiple kpi integration scenarios

We found that Microsoft Power BI Embedded met our requirements completely. It was particularly well suited to meet our need to create engaging and interactive visual dashboards to track the rollout of the O365 mobile applications to all of our mobile users company wide. It was probably less well suited for scenarios where only a small, simple visualisation is required - in these cases an Excel chart embedded into PPT would be suitable.

For data sets that do not require extensive slicing and dicing, it's a great tool for example, if we want to pull in our daily phone metrics from Salesforce it works well. However if we have larger data sets such as case data over a longer duration and try to find trends across data points, it does become a challenge.

Microsoft Power BI Embedded is an effective tool for creating data visualisations and communicating those custom visualisations to your audience online. It is well integrated with Excel, which is really handy if you already use Excel in your work environment.

Microsoft Power BI Embedded is a great solution if you have either the deep pockets to hire a team to build reports, or have someone in house to do so. The ability to pick up this software and run with it may be a little difficult for the average user. However as an end user it can be very useful in seeing data in a unique way.