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Having difficulty understanding your data? Power BI can help 

Learn what Power BI is, it's core features, and how it's used Find out how Power BI benefits businesses like yours How our team can help your business get started with, Power BI, and ensure it's right for your business
22nd August 2025 By clientservices
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence platform, designed to be easily accessible for users with varying levels of data knowledge. It offers integrated tools and services to connect, visualise, and share data across an organisation, allowing the creation of collaborative, interactive reports using visual analytics. Data models created in Power BI can be used in various ways, including telling stories through charts and data visualisations, examining different scenarios within data, and helping with forecasting to ensure set business metrics are met. Utilising an intuitive, user-focused interface, Power BI empowers businesses with data-driven insights, requiring little upfront training, meaning you can implement it with no stress.

How does Power BI benefit businesses?

Power BI benefits businesses in a number of ways, with its user-friendly interface, attractive data visualisations, and collaborative nature helping companies gain real insight into themselves and or their clients. 

  1. Accessible data exploration

Power BI is built for the everyday user, meaning you don’t have to have a technical, analytical background to explore data on the platform. If you’re familiar with Microsoft Excel or Google Docs, its interface will be intuitive for you to use, empowering you to create striking data visuals at the click of a button. 

  1. Customisable data visuals

By exploring data through Power BI, you can make use of data storytelling, utilising visually enticing displays that help you to communicate and present information to clients, employees and stakeholders. It also adds value when you’re looking to visualise important patterns found within complex data sets. 

Collaborative, Scalable and Easily Integrated

  1. Collaborative analysis and reporting

Power BI is built to facilitate collaboration within an organisation, helping your teams to work together on analysis and reporting, all under a workspace. This enables real-time insights, making discussions and decision-making easier. 

  1. Affordable and scalable for small businesses through to large

Power BI is available through multiple pricing plans, meaning you can take advantage of its offering without concerns about budgetary constraints. It can support large-scale data sets too, making it just as useful for sizeable companies, as it is for SMEs. 

  1. Easy integration with other software

Power BI can integrate with other software such as Excel, allowing you to leverage the strength of both tools. You can import Excel data into Power BI to analyse, and you can also analyse Power BI datasets within Excel. 

 

Are you looking to get started with Power BI? Are you still wondering if it’s right for your business? 

Here at Fluid, we’ve helped businesses like yours to get the best out of Power BI – transferring our knowledge and skills to your team, so you can enhance your reporting, and make the most out of powerful data insight. 

Get in touch with our team today. 

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