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Power BI provides a rich and powerful toolset for companies dealing with the loads of data that they process day in and day out. With multiple data-driven decisions to make, enterprises are relying heavily on automated tools to streamline their operations. Power BI has a suite of services that help a business analyst meet the demands of the job and keep the executives updated on all data changes.

Power BI has become an incredible business intelligence tool that provides strong visualization techniques and enables powerful data analysis for business organizations. Microsoft periodically adds new features to the Power BI suite of tools in order to make the job of a business analyst easier. Reporting and sharing Power BI reports becomes a lot more efficient when analysts are using Power BI to process data.

Business Intelligence (BI) refers to a process which is used to analyze and display data in ways that drive better decisions and actions. The BI toolset is comprised of various applications, tools, and technologies that make the job of a business analyst easier. A BI dashboard, in particular, is quite essential for running a data-driven business.

Power BI is a popular business intelligence tool that many organizations use today for reporting and analysis. One of the main advantages of using Power BI as your tool of choice is it makes your operations more efficient. In large corporations, you have to mine large amounts of data and make data-based decisions on a periodic basis. As a good business practice, you also need to share these reports and decisions with stakeholders. Power BI reports and dashboards help you accomplish all this with ease.

Business intelligence is one of the essential components for most cutting-edge companies. It allows them to improve their decision-making and helps them track their goals. As companies grow their business, they have increased amounts of data to process, and it is not always practical to add more resources. Organizations would much rather equip themselves with efficient tools to automate the data analysis process.

Microsoft Power BI is a set of business intelligence software services that work together to process varying sources of data into valuable business insights. The Power BI suite comprises of Power BI desktop, Power BI service, and mobile Power BI apps available for different platforms. These services are used by enterprises to process data and generate BI reports for decision-making.

Business intelligence solutions continue to take data-driven decision making to the next level for most organizations. Enterprises are churning loads of data every day and have an important need to process this data for tracking their goals. Additionally, reports and dashboards are an integral part of conducting business for employees at these companies. However, data can sometimes be overwhelming if not processed and delivered in the right manner.

Not only is SQL-RD a handy tool for scheduling SQL Server Reports, it can be a great way to manage SSRS report subscriptions. Many SQL-RD users have enjoyed the ability to schedule SSRS reports with expanded options such as report encryption, additional formats, and more destinations such as Sharepoint & Dropbox. In addition to the advanced subscription distribution features SQL-RD has to offer, it can also act as an SSRS report manager. Let’s look at three ways SQL-RD can help SQL Server admins manage their SSRS subscriptions.

Depending on your SQL Server edition, SSRS has some built-in scheduling functions that allow administrators to schedule SSRS reports to email. Many situations require reporting administrators to turn to SQL-RD, an “out of system” workflow tool for scheduled SSRS reports. In the past, I have discussed in great detail the reasons why administrators use SQL-RD to schedule reports, but now I will cover how administrators schedule SSRS reports to email.

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to create custom reports from a variety of data sources. The main purpose of Crystal Reports is to allow users to pull their desired data from a data source such as Oracle or MS SQL Server database. From there, users can present the data in a repeatable and organized way.

Business Intelligence dashboards have become quite essential for large corporations to analyze data and create data-based solutions. Most BI software tools are easy-to-use for business analysts and empower you to crunch a large amount of data. Furthermore, business intelligence dashboards provide the easiest way to infer insights and create business value that you can share across the organization.

Imagine that the management team needs to receive 10 weekly status reports that include finances, inventory, sales etc. As usual, you have 10 subscriptions setup that deliver these reports. Everything is working just fine, then suddenly management decides that they no longer want to fuss with 10 different reports and 10 different emails. Instead, they want one document that encompasses all the weekly information they need. Great, now you have to write a whole new report, deploy it, and then set up the subscriptions all over again. Or do you? Using SQL-RD's Package Schedule, you can merge SSRS report output into a single PDF, text, or Excel file without the need to change the reports.