{"id":268,"date":"2013-07-08T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2013\/07\/08\/what-powers-power-bi-in-office-365\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:25:52","slug":"what-powers-power-bi-in-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/what-powers-power-bi-in-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"What powers Power BI in Office 365?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ari Schorr and Seayoung Rhee are product marketing managers in the Microsoft Office Division focused on Excel and Business Intelligence, respectively.<\/em><\/p>\n

Power BI for Office 365 is a new self-service business intelligence (BI) offering enabling businesses to gain insights from their data in powerful new ways within Excel and Office 365. Customers now have the ability to easily search, discover and access data inside and outside of their organization and, with just a few clicks, shape and transform that data. They can also analyze and create stunning interactive visualizations that uncover hidden insights to share and collaborate from virtually anywhere, on nearly any device.<\/p>\n

Key features are:<\/p>\n

Powerful Self-Service BI in Excel 2013:<\/b> We are taking our most powerful BI solutions and building them directly into Excel. These solutions package the data discovery, analysis and visualization process into one self-service BI solution, which is essential for business customers who are looking to get bigger returns on their data. Features include:<\/p>\n