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Microsoft Power BI

HABY JOSEPH

Microsoft Power BI

Since data is such a critical aspect of business, it is important to use a strong Business Intelligence tool. Microsoft Power BI is a market-leading reporting & analytics product that has been acknowledged as a pioneer for 12 consecutive years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Systems, so why don’t more organisations use it to get more out of their company’s data? We will discuss a few of the many strengths that Power BI has and show you how you can get more from your business data in this blog post.

What is Power BI?

Power BI is a Microsoft cloud-based business intelligence tool that helps you to analyse your knowledge to obtain valuable insights, helpful in making data-backed choices to move your organisation forward. Power BI dashboards and analyses incorporate information in real-time from a large range of outlets to have a 360-degree view of the enterprise in one location. You may create personalised dashboards and reports or use pre-made models to view details, such as sales, promotions, customer support or any other business functions you choose to track, from several different aspects of your business.

Power BI Dashboard

What you can do with Power BI?

A basic drag and drop user interface is used to create immersive dashboards and reports using a drag-and – drop canvas loaded with entertaining visualisations that are modified in real time to create visualisations and reports. To show your results, Power BI comes with over 15 different visualisations, as well as an online library packed with additional community-created options.

Access and control from anywhere

You can view your Power BI dashboards and reports on any platform with native smartphone applications for iOS , Android, and Windows devices to ensure you’re never left out of the loop. Set up smartphone notifications and share your dashboards via text , email or on the app itself for critical KPIs.

Promotes collaboration

Power BI facilitates teamwork through the ability to collectively edit, collaborate and review dashboards. Power BI workspaces include an environment in which teams can collaborate together to exchange dashboard ownership and management, documentation, databases and workbooks. You should post the dashboards and files, allowing individuals to access and engage with the information, but not change it. You will also communicate and communicate with your colleagues or embed your dashboards and results on blogs, in SharePoint, applications, and more.

Natural language search

The in-built ‘Q&A’ functionality of Power BIs helps you to ask questions about your data using natural language, the same as when you look for something on Google. Power BI then interprets the question after posing a question and changes the visualisations on your dashboard to include an answer. Without the need to query a data scientist, this feature helps every user to get quick insights into their data.

Predictability

Power BI forecasting combines AI and machine learning to give you predictive modelling, allowing you an accurate idea of your potential success before it ever exists. In order to adjust the prediction on your visualisation, you should determine several inputs such as the forecast duration and confidence interval. Applying the forecasting tool to a visualisation would refresh it with a detailed representation of how the data might appear over the chosen time frame, allowing you to prepare your approach efficiently in the future.

Slicers, drill through, drill-down

Slicers are used to allow users to refine and display data for only certain selected elements in a study. For instance, you are looking at a general sales report from your shops, but you want to highlight each store’s results separately in order to compare your data. It is a much easier way to display multiple datasets than to construct a separate visualisation. Slicers can be coordinated with all the visualisations by a single click through several report sites.

Drill through is used in the report to create a website that focuses on a single business such as a provider, client or maker. When you right-click and visualise the main report tab, the pages are separate from your main report and take you to this separate page with the visualisations modified if you wish.

You may use the drill-down mode of Power BI to show more information about the data when a visualisation has a hierarchy. By default, drilling only filter data for one visualisation, but you can enable several visualisations to be filtered at once. If you look at a visualisation of your total sales of clothes, you can drill down and see the overall sales by item category, then you can drill deeper to see overall sales by item size or colour, giving you deeper insights into your information.

Business Central of Microsoft Dynamics 365

If you are already a Dynamics 365 Business Central customer, to provide you with easy insights about your business, you can see Power BI reports inserted directly into pages inside the programme. If you pick certain pieces of material, such as looking at total item sales and then clicking on one particular item, these embedded visualisations are interactive and dynamically modified. Power BI also helps you to connect Business Central as a database, allowing you an endless ability to produce insightful dashboards and analyses to provide you an in-depth view into the success of your business. We hope that this blog post has provided you more insight into some of Power BI’s many strengths, this is not a detailed rundown of all the features in the solution, but it gives you an understanding of how much more you can use it to get from your business data.

Hence, Power BI is Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics platform that offers effective real-time data analysis to customers and companies, helpful in making data-backed decisions to move your business forward and thoroughly understand your results.

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Common use cases for Power Platform

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Common Power Platform use cases using Power Apps & Power Automate are as follows:

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Power Platform use cases are listed below:

Asset Management

 – Organizational asset issue and return management, with approval request and tracking, integrated with office 365 providing single sign-on. Separate employee app and asset team app. 

Vendor Invoice Automation 

– Powerful application for efficiently managing your entire vendor invoice management process on-the-go with enterprise-grade security.

Employee Productivity management system

– (Attendance, Timesheet, Leave, Reimbursements) – Intended to effectively track your workforce, by monitoring employee leaves, time and attendance, as well as work shifts. 

Inspection & Audit Management

– Integrated app used by the sourcing and quality teams to manage the quality and timely delivery of products by vendors, with clear roles defined for managing the various tasks.

Expense approval system

– Streamlines and automates the workflows associated with creating, approving and controlling expense claims. 

 360 appraisal system

– Sets out automatic reminders of upcoming schedule such as employee appraisals, training course, follow-ups and other important dates and meetings. 

Visitor Management System

– Monitoring and tracking the visitors effectively as well as reduce the risk of unwanted intruders and trespassers inside the facility 

Client or Sales Registration forms

– Lets clients sign up for an account or service with a specific company 

Know your Customer system

– Enables frontline staff to conduct KYC with ease and perfection with defined process and checklists moreover allow users to take customer photos, upload their documents, provide status updates and submit KYC while with customer.  

Capital expenditure Management

– You can automate your Expense approvals, involving your stakeholders, subject matter experts, and managers. It’s a Budgeting solution for any organization that requires multiple approvals. 

Requisition Management System

– Web application to manage the various purchase requisitions of the organisations from initiation, capturing the various product inputs, technical evaluation, vendor management, etc..

Extending your SharePoint Portal using Power App mobile apps – This tool provides a report for each analyzed page showing how the page performs against a defined set of performance criteria.

Also Read More about – Microsoft Power Platform in detail 

Sysfore is a Microsoft Gold Partner with unique customer stories using the Microsoft Power Platform. Being a low code/no code platform, partner could help customer in quickly building apps for their key business challenges leveraging the various solution components. As requested sharing with you the solutions which Sysfore has already built on Power Apps platform for customers.

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Sysfore, A Microsoft Cloud solution provider and a Gold Partner, uses leading network, technology, and service expertise to deliver our service anytime, virtually anywhere, quickly and efficiently. We have helped over 80 small enterprises and 30 mid-sized enterprises across the globe for a successful cloud migration in the past 8 years.
Contact one of our experts today and we will help you find the perfect solution for your business. Write to us at info@sysfore.com or give us a call at +91 (80) 4110 5555.

Microsoft Power Platform in detail

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What is Microsoft Power Platform? 

Microsoft Power Platform is pioneering the digital transformation, aiming to help companies re-imagine how to bring people together, Data and processes creating value for your clients and in a digital first world maintain a competitive advantage. 

The Power Platform consists of FOUR core applications: 

  • Power Apps

    —Turn ideas into organizational solutions by enabling everyone to build custom mobile and web apps that solve business challenges. 

  • Power Automate

     — Boost business productivity to get more done by giving everyone the ability to automate organisational processes. 

  • Power Virtual Agents

    —Easily build chatbots to engage conversationally with your customers and employees—no coding required. 

  • Power BI

    —Displaying your business data in interactive, real-time dashboards and reports to provide detailed insights.Microsoft Power Platform

CDS – Common Data Service allows you to store and manage data that business applications use securely. Data is stored on a set of entities within the Common Data Service. An entity is a set of data storage records, similar to the way a table stores data within a database. Common Data Service includes a basic set of standard entities that cover typical scenarios, but you can also use Power Query to create and populate custom entities specific to your organisation with information. Then app makers can use Power Apps to use this data to create rich applications.

AI Builder – is a capability of Microsoft Power Platform that you can utilise to improve business performance by automating processes and predicting results. AI Builder is a turnkey solution which delivers AI power through a point-and – click experience. You can add intelligence to your apps with AI Builder, even if you don’t have the coding or data science skills.   

Within Power Apps Studio or the Microsoft Flow website you can access AI Builder from the navigation pane. The simple wizard like experience is tailored to empower every developer in accordance with the power platform’s essence. Under the ‘Models’ tab of the AI Builder, you can access all of your AI models in a single pane, providing up front key information about each model in a tabular format. Clicking on a particular model takes you to its details page, where the user is made available with other key information and actions. You can perform actions like publish and test the model, view the model efficacy and weights of data contributing to it or view other recommended rom the details page. You can perform actions such as publishing and testing the model, viewing the effectiveness of the model and the weights of the data contributing to it or viewing the details page of another recommended rom.

 
Portal Power Apps makers can now create a powerful new type of experience; external websites that allow users outside their organisations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in the Common Data Service, or even anonymously browse the content. 

For creators to quickly build a website and customise it with pages, layout, and content, these capabilities feature a revised end-to – end experience. Through templates, makers can reuse page designs, add forms and views to display Common Data Service key data, and publish it to users. 

See how to automate machine learning processes to enhance the usage of AI with Power Automate. The process of how to use pre-built AI tools inside Power Automate, and show how this automation can be used in the Power Platform, furthermore how to use form processing, using AI Builder and Power Automate, to read handwritten forms. Learn how to detect the objects and activities in an image using Power Automate, Power Apps and Cognitive Services.   

With such a wide array of applications, Microsoft is a leader in the enterprise tools and apps market. These applications range from standard Office 365 productivity tools, business back-end systems in Dynamics 365, or hundreds of Azure’s cloud services —just to name a few. 

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How does Power Platform collaborate together with all 4 apps? 

All four of these applications have different functionality but can work together to significantly improve your operations. In fact, to gain a deep perception, here is a case in which all applications in the Power Platform can work together. 

An app has been created on Power Apps which allows salespeople to create sales orders on the go, meaning they don’t have to wait until they’re back in the office to fill out the sales order. The salesperson goes to a client site, finds out what they need to order and fills out the required information on the app, storing the data in the CDS. Then Power Automate workflow has been set up to send an automatic email notification to a manager to approve the sales order as soon as it has been filled out. A Power BI dashboard has been created to display sales data, tracking various metrics relating to item sales, sale locations, number of sales for each salesperson, etc. Finally, with the help of Power Virtual Agent AI bots, you can know the status of your order, whether it’s approved or at what stage. 

 

Get Sysfore Cloud Managed Services For Your Enterprise

Sysfore, A Microsoft Cloud solution provider and a Gold Partner, uses leading network, technology, and service expertise to deliver our service anytime, virtually anywhere, quickly and efficiently. We have helped over 80 small enterprises and 30 mid-sized enterprises across the globe for a successful cloud migration in the past 8 years.
Contact one of our experts today and we will help you find the perfect solution for your business. Write to us at info@sysfore.com or give us a call at +91 (80) 4110 5555.