Find clarity when you need it most
Empower team members to discover insights hidden in your data with Microsoft Power BI.
Create a data-driven culture with business intelligence for all
Enable everyone at every level of your organization to make confident decisions using up-to-the-minute analytics.
Get self-service analytics at enterprise scale
Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security risks of multiple solutions with an analytics platform that scales from individuals to the organization as a whole.
Use smart tools for strong results
Find and share meaningful insights with hundreds of data visualizations, built-in AI capabilities, tight Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data connectors.
Help protect your analytics data
Keep your data secure with industry-leading data security capabilities including sensitivity labeling, end-to-end encryption, and real-time access monitoring.
What is Power BI?
Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. Connect to hundreds of data sources and bring your data to life with live dashboards and reports.
Why Power BI?
Explore the top reasons organizations choose Power BI to meet their self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI) needs.
Rely on one of the largest and fastest growing business intelligence clouds
Create and share interactive data visualizations across global datacenters, including national clouds to meet your compliance and regulation needs.
Trust an industry leader
Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a Leader for the fourteenth consecutive year in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.
Build your business on secure data analytics
Apply sensitivity labels to Power BI data using Microsoft Information Protection in the familiar Microsoft 365 experience.
Extend data loss prevention and governance to Power BI users—including report sharing—with Microsoft Cloud App Security.
Better meet privacy and regulatory requirements with oversight of sensitive data through BYOK (bring your own key).
Better protect your organizational data by using Power BI security with service tags, Azure Private Link, and (coming soon) Azure Virtual Network.
Unify self-service and enterprise analytics
Meet both your self-service and enterprise data analytics needs on a single platform. Access powerful semantic models, an application lifecycle management (ALM) toolkit, an open connectivity framework, and fixed-layout, pixel-perfect paginated reports.
Accelerate big data prep with Azure
Simplify how you analyze and share large volumes of data. By using a no-limits Azure data lake, you’ll reduce the time it takes to get insights and increase collaboration between business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.
Find answers fast with industry-leading AI
Take advantage of the latest advances in Microsoft AI to help non-data scientists prepare data, build machine learning models, and find insights quickly from both structured and unstructured data, including text and images.
Improve publishing efficiency and accuracy of BI content
Quickly identify differences and move content from development and testing to production with confidence using the simple visual cues in deployment pipelines.
Get unparalleled Excel integration
Anyone who’s familiar with Office 365 can easily connect Excel queries, data models, and reports to Power BI Dashboards—helping to quickly gather, analyze, publish, and share Excel business data in new ways.
Keep your analytics data secure
Find the right insights quickly and maintain peace of mind using capabilities far beyond row- and column-level security across Power BI, Microsoft 365, and Azure.
Stream analytics in real time
Know what’s happening now, not just in the past. From factory sensors to social media sources, get access to real-time analytics so you’re always ready to make timely decisions.
Powerful alone. Better together.
Build powerful end-to-end business solutions by connecting Power Apps across the entire Microsoft Power Platform—and to Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, and hundreds of other apps—to drive innovation across your entire organization.
PowerApps
Build apps in hours – not months – that easily connect to data, use Excel-like expressions to add logic, and run on the web, iOS, and Android devices
Power BI
Unify data from many sources to create interactive, immersive dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights and drive business results.
