International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE) ISSN: 2231-2307, Volume-7 Issue-3, July 2017 Microsoft Power BI Amrapali Bansal, A. K. Upadhyay Abstract: With the changeable business circumstances, the Microsoft Excel paved the way for self-service BI, as it significance of Business Intelligence has gained lots of was the first step in giving business analysts the ability to deliberation. Business Intelligence tools can provide the extract insights from data. Microsoft made self-service BI a standarization with a fast and persuasive decision making process based on the multiple data sources, which might be able reality with Power Pivot, extending capabilities to Excel that to affect the survival of the organization on the market. And were previously found only in databases. because of the changes in the extrinsic business environment and Today, BI continues to evolve and Microsoft is leading the profession needs, a new access of BI solution, Self-service BI the way by bringing a new generation of BI to organizations, solution, is introduced and during the last few years, the number with solutions that will extend and build on, rather than of the market players using the approach has increased replace, existing analytics platforms and tools. With Power expeditiously. The objective of this paper was to build a BI solution according to one of Self-service BI solutions: Power BI BI, a business analytics service for visualizing and analyzing presents by Microsoft, one of the leading professionals in the all of your data in one place, Microsoft’s goal is to bring area of MSBI. This research contains two parts. The first part is business intelligence to everyone. the theory package which covers the BI and Self-service BI With Power BI, the IT professional can approaches in order to provide the readers with an overall under- Focus on what they love – Data, and provide standing of these concepts. It also sets up the understructure for quality and authoritative data sets to end users, the empirical part of this research paper project. The research paper started with analyzing BI and Self-service BI and the business analysts and data scientists relationship between them. After this, the Microsoft BI solution Meet the growing business need for consumable was introduced before moving to the back-ground facts about data Power BI. The second part of this research represents how to use Spend less time on infrastructure maintenance or Power BI to build a best BI solution based on the business report development scenario. During this testing process, the compulsory steps for building a BI solution were popularized also covering the main Focus on increasing demand for real-time and range of capabilities in the tool package. The consequence of this streaming data sources. research paper was a BI solution built using Power BI and it met The BI analyst is able to the requirements set for it. The observational case presented in connect to authoritative data with ease and this study can be used as a supportive user guide for all those confidence who are concerned about Microsoft Power BI. visually explore data Keywords: Auto-Scheduling; analytics; exploring; navigate through data quickly, optimized for Integration; impactful; Intelligence; Visualization performance I. INTRODUCTION pull data together from different sources, create data models and impactful, interactive reports easily share data models and reports with end users his document introduces the main capabilities of Power T The end user is empowered to BI, Microsoft’s cloud-based analytics service for get started and see results quickly visualizing, exploring, and extracting insights from data. monitor in real-time what matters most, in one The objective of this document help you comprehend what place Power BI offers and how it can support your organization’s share reports and dashboards with others business The concept of business intelligence has been stay connected from anywhere around in various forms for more than a century and a half. With Power BI, Microsoft is expanding the reach of At its core, BI is about understanding the facts - and the analytics to more users than ever before. relationship between facts - in a way that guides decision- making and action. From a technology standpoint, BI is a set II. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY of approaches and tools for transforming raw (meaningless) data into meaningful business insights. The research news will be introduced in this chapter are as IT professionals have consistently played a key role in follows: the opportunity and objective of the research, the unlocking value from data by creating and maintaining data research queries and finally the research procedure. warehouses, building and exposing complex data models, or A. Research Scope report creation. At the same time, end users have been relying largely on the support from IT to meet their BI The research opportunity of this research evolves the theory needs, including the development of reports. of BI and Self-service BI, the foundation of the Microsoft BI solution and the provisional research on Power BI. During Revised Version Manuscript Received on May 26, 2017. the practical research process, a test case was carried out to Amrapali Bansal, Masters in Technology, Department of Computer aids in figuring out the main functionalities of Power BI. Science, Amity University, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)-474020, India, E- mail: [email protected] Dr. A.K. Upadhyay, Department of Computer Science, Amity University, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)-474020, India, E-mail: [email protected] Published By: Retrieval Number: C3011077317/2017©BEIESP Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering 14 & Sciences Publication Microsoft Power BI In addition, it helps to comprehend how to define and build began in the 1960s and developed during the whole of the a BI solution by using Microsoft Power BI. mid-1980s. DSS originated in the computer-aided models created to assist with decision making and planning B. Research Purposes and Quries In 1988, an Italian-Dutch-French-English monopoly In this research paper, the consecutive research questions organized an international meeting on the Multiway Data will be answered: Analysis in Rome. The eventual goal is to reduce the What are BI and Self-service BI? multiple dimensions down to one or two (by detecting the What are the structures (frameworks) of Microsoft patterns within the data) that can then be presented to human BI and Microsoft Power BI? decision-makers. How to give description and build a BI solution In 1989, Howard Dresner (later a Gartner Group analyst) with Microsoft Power BI? proposed "business intelligence" as an umbrella term to There are two intentions for this research. The first one is describe "concepts and methods to improve business to know what the framework of Microsoft Power BI is. And decision making by using fact-based support systems." It the second purpose is to figure out how to create the was not until the late 1990s that this usage was extensive. determinate and report by using Power BI from end user’s prospective. In order to achieve the goals, will first set up B. Self-service Business Intelligence the theory foundation on Business Intelligence, Self-service Distinguished with Business Intelligence, Self-service Business Intelligence and Microsoft Power BI. Then, the Business Intelligence is a new-born BI motif. Self-service factual research will be done on the framework to figure out business intelligence (SSBI) is a way to data analytics that how to form the solution by using Power BI. facilitate business users to access and work with allied data even though they do not have a background in mathematical C. Research Methodology analysis, business intelligence (BI) or data mining. Allowing The abstract part in this research paper covers the familiar end users to make decisions based on their own queries and information about BI, Self-service BI, the framework of analyses frees up the organization's business intelligence and Microsoft BI and the countenance of Power BI. And in the information technology (IT) teams from creating the empirical part, how to operate Power BI to define and build plurality of reports and allows those teams to focus on other the solution is demonstrated by the test case. tasks that will help the management reach its goals. 1) Definition of Self-service Business Intelligence III. THEORETICAL CIRCUMSTANCES The interpretation of Self-service Business Intelligence was In order to figure out how to build BI solution with Power projected by Claudia Imhoff and Colin White. The ease BI, there is an imperative need of comprehending what BI is within the BI environment that enable BI users to become and its related terminologies and frameworks. Therefore, more self-reliant and less reliant on the IT organization. this chapter will start with the concept Deliberation of These ease focus on four main objectives: easier approach to Business Intelligence, which includes the history, the source data for reporting and analysis, easier and improved explanation and the architecture. As Power BI is defined as support for data analysis features, faster deployment options Self-service BI, the concept of Self-service BI will be such as appliances and cloud computing, and simpler, intricated. This chapter will end with the minutiae’s of customizable, and cooperative end-user interfaces. Power BI. 2) Self-service BI vs Traditional BI A. Business Intelligence Self-service BI has lots of advantages that traditional BI Business intelligence (BI) is described as "the set of does not have, Self-service BI is not a replacement of techniques and tools for the renewal of meaningless (raw) traditional BI solution. In fact, Self-service BI and data into meaningful and meaningful information for traditional BI support each other in many areas. In addition, business analysis purposes". The phrase "data surfacing" is the target users for these two types of BI solution are also more often correlated with BI functionality.