Power BI
Fully interactive, stunning data visualizations for your business
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Pros
- Rich ecosystem
- Active product group
- Out-of-the-box connectors
- Familiar to Excel professionals
- ETL processing with Dataflows
- Custom visualization marketplace
- Low cost Power BI Pro
- Automatically ingest data into Azure Data Lake Store
- Option to embedded reports via Power BI Embedded
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Cons
- Premium SKUs can be expensive
- DevOps support is lacking (coming soon)
- DAX language can be tricky to master
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