These days the growth of data in business organizations increases everyday. So a business organizer and business analyst have a large need for Self-Service Business Intelligence.
What Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) is
A Self-Service Business Intelligence turns data into the right decision-making. Self-service is an approach to data analysis that enables business users and also business organizers to access business data and also work with corporate information without including the IT departments and also IT professionals. It includes data warehouse and business intelligence tools and also business intelligence systems. Self-Service Business Intelligence have the capability to start from a business focus and performance also.
Use of Self-Service Business Intelligence
- Using the Self-Service Business Intelligence end-users create reports and queries.
- Self-Service Business Intelligence is only used by those people who are not technical, only by business analysts.
- It is a user interface so that it is easy to use.
Goal of Self-Service Business Intelligence
The main goal of Self-Service Business Intelligence is to provide full authority to end users. End users can make better decisions based on their own analysis. Self-Service Business Intelligence avoids the use of a large business intelligence system.
Currently my main topic is what Power Business Intelligence is. So let's start with a discussion of Power Business Intelligence.
Key factors of Self-Service Business Intelligence
There are mainly the following 5 key factors of Self-Service Business Intelligence:
- Adequate training
- Technology professionals
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Collaboration
Adequate training
In this key factor are the following important points.
- Building right mindset
- Promote culture of self help
- Provides control
Technology professionals
In this key factor are the following important points.
- Right technology use
- Use semantic layer in business organization
- Provides memory solution to business users
Roles and Responsibilities
In this key factor are the following important points.
- Better process maturity role
- Clearly defined roles and responsibilities
Collaboration
In this key factor are the following important points.
- Best industry practice
- Business user have strong power community
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What Power Business Intelligence (BI) is
In today's era, it is more difficult to handle the big data of business organizations. So the most probable cases are some business intelligence tools important to handle those hard and big data. So to solve these problems Microsoft launched Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365 with new features and services.
So there is the new point in user's minds, what is Office 365?
The Office 365 is just the same as Microsoft Office but Office 365 is powered by the cloud. Office 365 is an "Online office". It is generally referred to the business organization. It is software of the Microsoft Office platform. By using Office 365 the user accesses their applications anywhere. Office 365 is always up to date.
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Introduction to Power Business Intelligence (BI)
Basically, Power Business Intelligence is designed to be a collection of Self-Service Business Intelligence. Some features of Self-Service Business Intelligence are included in Power Business Intelligence. In Power Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence (BI) includes some enabling features of Excel. Excel is not a part of Power Business Intelligence but users can use Excel with some enabling features when making reports and a Power Business Intelligence (BI) demo. The business user can use Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365 with better collaboration and data management and business performance.
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Use of Power Business Intelligence (BI)
There are the following basic uses of Power Business Intelligence (BI).
- Power BI is very useful for Excel users who have a very big need of Self-Service Business Intelligence capabilities.
- By using Power Business Intelligence for Office 365, business users create reports and queries also.
- With Power Business Intelligence, business analysts distribute interactive business reports.
Features of Power Business Intelligence (BI)
There are the following basic features of Power Business Intelligence (BI):
- Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) in Excel
- Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365
Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) in Excel
These features are part of the Excel family. It can be used to design workbooks, data models and visualizations. Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) in Excel is not part of the Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365. It is just different. The major use of Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) in Excel is to design data models and also analysis purposes.
Tools of Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) in Excel
There are the following four types of tools:
- Power Query
- Power Pivot
- Power View
- Power Map
Power Query
Power Query can be used to connect to data from public and private data sources. It merges data from multiple data sources for better analysis in Excel. Power Query has better capabilities to transform data. With Power Query business users can search an entire cloud data both public and private. Power Query enables the business users to search, combine, shape and also download data with multiple sources.
These types of tools are not installed previously in Excel, Business users need to download it. The following is the download link for Power Query.
Microsoft Power Query for Excel
Power Pivot
Power Pivot can be used to create discreet and refined data models with Excel data. Power Pivot creates the relationship and custom types of measures between data model. Power Pivot provides better performance by using millions of rows of data. It provides run in memory data model so that business users can analyze the big data very easily. It also works with SQL Server.
These types of tools are not installed previously in Excel, Business users need to download it. The following is the download link for Power Pivot.
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 SP1 PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel® 2010
Power View
Power View van be used to create intractive business reports and also creates analytical views based on business. It create intractive business reports and also creates analytical views based on charts and graphs and also includes Excel data. Traditionally some features of Power View does not work with Excel 2010.
These types of tools are not installed previously in Excel, Business users need to download it. The following is the download link for Power Pivot.
Create a Power View sheet in Excel 2013
Power Map
It can be used to create a 3D map in Excel.
These types of tools are not installed previously in Excel, Business users need to download it. The following is the download link for Power Pivot.
Power Map Preview for Excel 2013
Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365
Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365 can be accessed anywhere because it is an online office. It shares public and private data from various business applications and provides answers.
The following are the main three types of tools:
- Power BI sites
- Data management
- Power BI for windows
Power BI sites
This tool can be used to quickly create Power Business Intelligence sites. By using this tool business users and also their team can access data and also view reports. In Excel workbook viewing is also supported for Power Business Intelligence sites so that users can view reports and also interact with large workbooks through the browser.
Data management
When any business user creates a Power Query in Excel then it can be shared with others. Users can manage this query and also see how much it is used. With the data management tool of Power Business Intelligence for Office 365 users can share queries easily and also find and generate queries easily.
Power BI for windows
This window can be used to see the latest reports posted by Power Business Intelligence sites.
Summary
This article provided an introduction to Power Business Intelligence and also describes what Self-Service Business Intelligence is and describes why it is used for Excel.
I hope you've enjoyed this article and also found it useful. Basically in this article my goal is to help you understand Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) in Excel and also Power Business Intelligence (BI) for Office 365 in terms of how it works. This articles provides better knowledge.