Power BI
Power BI service is a cloud-based business analytics and data visualization service that enables anyone to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of data through easy-to-use dashboards, interactive reports, and compelling visualizations that bring data to life.
The Power BI service website is built upon the azure cloud platform and adhere to HTML 5 standard. It has robust support for HTML5 via what is called PowerView.
The Data Sets for Power BI Service includes
- Uploaded Excel, CSV, or Power BI Desktop files.
- Linked Excel, CSV, or Power BI Desktop files residing on OneDrive for Business or OneDrive Personal.
- Data are available in your organization's content packs. Content packs are "pre-packaged" dashboards, datasets, and reports specific to your organization and are only available in Power BI Pro.
- Data from other online services content packs; these services range from Bing to GitHub to MailChimp to SalesForce.
- Data from SQL Azure Databases and Data Warehouses are also available, but it is also only available to Power BI Pro subscribers
