With the massive amounts of data generated by your company, making sense of that data and sharing it with decision-makers can be challenging. In this blog, we covered the advantages of combining your existing Office investments with Power BI to work better and achieve more – Together. And how you can empower your team members to make better decisions with immersive reports and dashboards across Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.
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Advantages of using Power BI and Office together
- Get insights where you need them: You can get the data insights you need right inside the Office apps you use every day without changing applications.
- Help protect your Power BI data—across Office 365: you can safeguard your BI data with protection that persists when exported to other Office 365 apps formats, such as PowerPoint and Excel.
- Discover answers quickly through a familiar experience: If you know how to use Excel or PowerPoint, you can quickly get started to find insights fast.
Power BI insights + Office productivity
Microsoft Excel
By combining Excel with Power BI, you get comprehensive data analytics and visualization capabilities. With this integration, you can:
- Efficiently use Excel skills in Power BI through everyday experiences like data analysis expressions (DAX) and Power Query.
- See the correct data instantly in Power BI by automating your data refresh with a single click.
- View and interact with Microsoft Power BI datasets in Excel while maintaining interactivity features from Power BI.
- Get advanced custom visualization, modelling, and predictive capabilities for advanced analytics workflows.
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Microsoft Teams
You can make everyone in your company more productive by incorporating Teams with Power BI reporting. You can:
- Add interactive Power BI reports directly into conversations and Microsoft Teams to spend less time seeking them and more time using them to help team priorities.
- Give everyone in your team access to the data they need for a project by quickly incorporating Power BI visuals.
- Get to decisions accelerated by viewing and collaborating on data visualizations as a team.
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SharePoint
- You can embed interactive Power BI reports in SharePoint Online pages that everyone in your team can access.
- Stay updated on what’s crucial by surfacing data visualizations regularly accessed location.
- You can quickly customize the look of your BI reports to best suit everyone’s requirements.
- You no longer need to rely on local files that can get lost or damaged by storing BI reports in an online document library.
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PowerPoint
- By exporting Microsoft Power BI reports to PowerPoint as high-resolution images, you can drive clarity and improve decision-making.
- It allows you to move seamlessly between your presentation and Power BI to dive deeper into analytics if required.
- You can export only the information you care most about—the filters and slicers settings you added are always preserved.
- You can create and publish Power BI reports using your existing PowerPoint skills.
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Learn More
Discover more ways to make sense of all the data your organization generates. Join our exclusive Power BI Online Training Bootcamp from July 20 – July 22, 2021.
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