give you an example suppose there's a company which deals with a lot of

products like Amazon and it's widespread over the world and has many many vendors
that sell through this platform so obviously there's a lot of data being
generated in a lot of different formats people use Excel access different
databases sequel server so on and so forth
some people even make all these spreadsheets and upload it to the web so
obviously all that has to be bought to a single platform to analyze and then
these are the reports that go to the CEOs CFOs and the CXO position all the
big people in Amazon now you can't just take 1 million or 10 million rows of
data to a person to look at and in for
something right you need them to know what's going on what is going on inside
the company how is the market outside of the company and this cannot be done with
hundreds and thousands of numbers this is where data visualization comes into
picture it's about giving them an idea of what's going on inside their company
in different departments without having to look at tons and tons of numbers
well-designed graphics have the power to put this complicated data into simple
pictures and this is where modern bi wins
data visualization is a quick and easy way to convey concepts or information in
a universal manner it can help to one identify key areas and hidden patterns
to get factors that give better customer insights 3 analyze and associate data
and products properly and finally make proper predictions

why we need power bi ?

now there are a few points that make power bi one of the
most prominent tools for data visualization
now this tutorial would be incomplete without understanding these points
firstly Barbie I can spot trends in real time traditional bi tools like tableau
or click View restrict you to historical analysis by using power bi you can
access real-time information so you can identify trends early by doing so you
can identify issues and improve performance secondly by we I can
automatically search hidden insights with power bi you can auto search
datasets for hidden insights in seconds with quick incites users can simply ask
questions and power bi Q&A will answer their questions with an immediate effect
third advanced analytics and custom visualizations with custom visuals power
bi allows you to visualize data in almost every way possible as long as you
can imagine it you can put it on your dashboard thus you're not limited to
something that lies in a box finally bar bi is Enterprise ready with
power bi and power bi desktop you can securely connect to your own on-premises
data sources with the on-premises data gateway you can connect live to your SQL
Server and other data sources it gives you a secure scalable and reliable
enterprise grade information technology and these mention reasons make power bi
important in context of data visualization so who can use power bi IT
professionals developers companies begin small subject matter experts and plain
analytics enthusiasts as long as you want to you can all use power bi 
is a business analytics
service provided by Microsoft it provides interactive visualization with
self-service business intelligence capabilities where end-users can create
reports and dashboards by themselves without having to depend on information
technology staff or database administrators it also gives you
cloud-based bi services known as power bi services along with a desktop based
inference core power bi desktop it offers data warehouse capabilities using
data prep data discovery and interactive dashboards in March of 2016
Microsoft released an additional service called power bi embedded on its as your
cloud platform which enables the user to analyze data easily and perform various
ETL operations and deliver reports with power bi the power bi gate wheels let
you connect with access excel SQL Server databases analytic services and many
other sources to your dashboard in power bi and reporting portals embed power bi
reports and dashboards to give you a unified experience what you see on your
screens right now shows power bi is general workflow you have a thousands of
data sources which are being connected to power bi desktop which then can be
published into the service and gives you an option of
connecting your organizational data life through your power bi gateways in the
end this can all be accessed through your tablets laptops and cell phones
with you your colleagues and everybody involved in your business decision

few components of power bi now power bi has a few

components you have
power query
power pivot
power view
power map
data catalog
data management gateway
bar bi Q&A and
service

starting up we have power query

now this is a component which can be used to search an Access and transform
public and internal data sources it is the Microsoft's data connectivity and
data preparation technology which enables business users to seamlessly
access data stored in hundreds of data sources and reshape it to fit their
needs with an easy to use engaging and no code user experience

next we have
power pivot now you can use this for data modeling for in-memory analytics it
extends a local instance of Microsoft analyst a services tabular that is
embedded directly into your workbook it enables you to import millions of rows
of data from multiple data sources into a single power bi workbook it helps you
create relationships between heterogeneous data create calculated
columns and measures using formulas
and build pivottables and pivotcharts and
further analyze the data then you have

Power View which is a data visualization

technology that lets you create interactive charts graphs maps and other
visuals that bring your data to life now Power View is available in power bi
Excel and other analyst services from Microsoft

then you have power map which

is also another feature in Excel it is for exploring map and time-based data it
lets you plot Geographic and temporal data visually analyze that data in 3d
and create cinematic tours to share with others

next you have power bi services

so this is a collection of apps dashboards and reports built to deliver
key metrics for your organization these apps are interactive with
and helps customers work with their own content

then we have power bi Q&A it's

basically a feature which helps you ask questions and get immediate answers
sometimes the fastest way to get an answer from your data is to ask the
question using natural language so you can use Q&A to explore your data using
intuitive natural language capabilities and receive answers in the form of
charts and graphs

next you have the data management gateway so basically what

this does is it connects your on-premise servers with your power bi in the cloud
if you want to refresh your data in the cloud with the data that is on the
premise you will need to have the data management gateway configured and
available to your tenant and that is how this works

and finally we have our power

bi data catalog now this contains the metadata for felicitated search
functionality in power bi now your metadata gets stored in power bi data
catalog in the cloud for a shared query it gives you a search access list for
the query to determine which users and security groups can find and use this
shared query