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The goal of a data analyst should be to arrange the insights of the data so that all users can decisively act on it. Power BI is a business analytics service from Microsoft that enables you to visualize and analyze data with efficiency. It is a powerful tool that you can use to connect to your data source and analyze all your data.

Power BI is one of the most sought-after offerings from Microsoft for business intelligence users. Its popularity is due to its vast number of capabilities that make data analysis and reporting so much easier and more efficient. You can invest in various versions of Power BI based on your business needs. Moreover, in the Power BI service, capabilities are defined based on the type of license you acquire.

Microsoft Power BI Desktop is a free software application that you install on your computer to connect to, transform, and visualize your organizational data. The power of this application comes from enabling you to connect to multiple different sources of data. Additionally, you can combine them into a data model that allows you to build visuals. This means you can collect various visuals and turn them into powerful reports that can be shared within or outside of your enterprise.

Netflix, it seems, has the magic formula that has raised the company valuation to over $164 billion. It has passed Disney as the most valued media company on the planet. Some of its additional victories include:

• A 93 percent retention rate compared to Hulu's 64 percent and Amazon Prime's 75 percent
• Having 151 million subscribers
• Making wildly successful original TV shows and movies
• Identifying what their audience wants

So, what's Netflix's secret? The answer is big data and analysis. To be more precise, the secret is how Netflix collects this data and how it implements data analytics models to eke-out customer behavior and buying patterns. The information Netflix harvests is transforming the entire entertainment industry.

Automate, Schedule & Deploy SSRS Data Driven Subscriptions

Hundreds of companies of varying verticals and sizes rely on SQL Server’s reporting system. Known as SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), it is used to design and generate reports on a scheduled or adhoc basis. SSRS has a basic scheduler designed for simple automated report distribution, but what if your business requires complex event driven and data driven subscriptions? What if you not only needed to automate SQL reports, but you require tasks to be automated such as database updates or system alerts? In the first part of this blog, I will discuss how SSRS automated report generation, Data Driven Subscriptions, and business process automation using PBRS can solve this problem.

Benefits of Using Power BI

KPI’s are essential to any business, small or large, both to cut costs and grow, and track any other quantitative or qualitative measures within the organization. In this article, we discuss what KPIs are, how they came to be, and how your business can use KPIs successfully.

Reasons to use SSRS to Design, Generate, and Deploy Business Reports

SQL reporting services is a server based report designer, builder, and deployment engine made by Microsoft. This can be used to prepare and deliver various interactive and printed reports. With SQL reporting services combined with SQL Server, firms have a unified solution for both report design and data warehousing. SSRS can help you to create tabular, graphical and free-form reports from relational, multidimensional and XML based data sources. The reports can also be published and accessed on demand. SSRS also has a built in scheduling tool to perform basic report deployments via email, file share, or SharePoint.

Business intelligence dashboards are an incredible tool for any business to see progress in various areas of the business. Using data analytics software, you can develop a dashboard with key data points, KPI’s and metrics for your business all in one screen.

In this article, we’re going to discuss data analytics software, and the BI dashboard that they can produce.

Benefits of Using Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is your ultimate business intelligence tool that enables you to visually analyze your data and make more informed decisions for your enterprise. There are various benefits of using Power BI, which is why it has become quite popular. Many organizations are using Power BI because of its functionality and ease of use. If you are a data-driven organization looking for a powerful business intelligence tool, Power BI is your answer. Power BI helps you visualize your raw data by building an abstract layer on top of it.

Informative Stats: The Growth and Value of Business Intelligence

The first known usage of the term “business intelligence” was by Richard Millar Devens in 1865. It was not until 1989 when Gartner analyst Howard Dresner again brought the phrase “business intelligence” into common terminology. As business intelligence became a commonly known phrase in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, an abundance of new vendors joined the market. At that time, there were only basic functions of business intelligence - producing data and reports, organizing it, and visualizing it in a presentable way. Yet, there were two significant issues holding back the developing technology phase: time and complexity.

Crystal Reports Scheduler: Select, Format, Schedule, and Deliver!

CRD® (Crystal Reports Distributor) is a Crystal Reports Scheduler that saves time and money by making it easy to automate Crystal reports. Crystal Reports scheduling is easy. Just define single or packages of Crystal Reports®, schedule, run them automatically and send the reports to print, fax, folder, FTP, SMS, DropBox, Sharepoint & email in a number of standard formats including Excel, Word, PDF, RPT and more.

Microsoft Power BI is a data visualization software whose adoption is proliferating among data-based companies. If you are building a business intelligence portfolio, Power BI is undoubtedly a tool that you should be considering since it comes with several useful features. There are three types of Power BI versions that you can consider investing in: Power BI Free, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium.