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Power BI is a Business Analytics service provided by Microsoft. It provides interactive visualizations 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 data base administrators. Power BI is a powerful cloud- based suite of Business Analytics tools that makes it easy to combine data from multiple sources, analyze and visualize information and share insights.

Power BI is a Data Visualization and Business Intelligence tool that converts data from different data sources to interactive dashboards and BI reports. Power BI suite provides multiple software, connector, and services - Power BI desktop, Power BI service based on Saas, and mobile Power BI apps available for different platforms. These set of services are used by business users to consume data and build BI reports.

Power BI desktop app is used to create reports, while Power BI Services (Software as a Service - SaaS) is used to publish the reports, and Power BI mobile app is used to view the reports and dashboards.

Using Power BI Desktop for Report Sharing

Once BI reports are created in Power BI desktop, you can also share the reports with other business users. All BI reports, dashboards, and data can be shared with other colleagues and business users in the organization.

You can share reports using the following methods −

  • Publish reports using Power BI Service

  • Content Packs combine dashboard, report, and datasets obtained in BI desktop tool

  • Create Groups and assign specific rights to different users for report sharing

  • Use Power BI mobile apps to access share dashboards and reports

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