Power BI Services and Benefits

Power Bi service is a cloud based business analytics and data visualization service that enables anyone to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of data through easy-to-use dashboards, interactive reports, and compelling visualizations that bring data to life.

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The Power BI service website is built upon the azure cloud platform and adhere to html 5 standard. It has a robust supporting for HTML5 via what is called PowerView. 

The data sets for power BI service includes

• Uploaded Excel, CSV, or Power BI Desktop files.
• Linked Excel, CSV, or Power BI Desktop files residing on OneDrive for Business or OneDrive Personal.
• Data available in your organization's content packs. Content packs are "pre packaged" dashboards, datasets, and reports specific to your organization and are only available in Power BI Pro.
• Data from other online services content packs; these services range from Bing to GitHub to MailChimp to SalesForce.
• Data from SQL Azure Databases and Data Warehouses is also available, but it is also only available to Power BI Pro subscribers

The main features of your Power BI service UI are the following: 

• navigation pane (left nav)
• canvas (in this case, dashboard with tiles)
• Q&A question box
• icon buttons, including help and feedback
• dashboard title (navigation path, aka breadcrumbs)
• Office 365 app launcher
• Power BI home button
• Labeled icon buttons