What is Microsoft Power BI?
Power BI is a business intelligence tool for building interactive reports and dashboards by connecting to hundreds of data sources. It offers data preparation with Power Query, calculations with DAX, Microsoft Fabric integration and Copilot-assisted report creation. Thanks to its affordable price and integration with Excel and Microsoft 365, it is one of the most widely used BI tools worldwide and in Turkey. Power BI Desktop is free; a Pro license is required for sharing.
Key facts
- Starting price
- $14 / user/month
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Active users
- —
- Customers
- —
- Vendor employees
- 228,000
- Launched
- 2015
- Deployment
- Cloud (SaaS), On-premise
- Platforms
- Web, Windows, iOS, Android
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- Low entry cost for self-service BI
- Deep integration with Excel and Microsoft 365
- Large community and learning resources
- Free plan available
- Can run on-premise
- Turkish interface
Considerations
- DAX and data modeling have a learning curve
- Desktop authoring is Windows-only
- Capacity licensing gets costly at scale
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Features
✓AI features· Automation
✓GDPR compliance· Compliance
✓SOC 2· Compliance
✓ISO 27001· Compliance
✓HIPAA· Compliance
✓Self-hosted· Deployment
✓API access· Integrations
✓Integrations marketplace· Integrations
✓Mobile app· Platform
✓Multi-language· Platform
✓Turkish interface· Platform
✓Custom reports· Reporting
✓Dashboards· Reporting
✓Single sign-on (SSO)· Security
✓Two-factor authentication· Security
✓Role-based access· Security
✓Audit log· Security
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