Overview
What is Power BI?
Microsoft documents Power BI Desktop, the Power BI service and related tools for reports and dashboards. A semantic model provides data prepared for reporting; governance and refresh design influence whether the same metric means the same thing across teams.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: Power BI documentation, Semantic models.
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Key capabilities
- Modeling: Prepare data and measures for repeatable reporting.
- Reports: Build and share interactive visualizations.
- Administration: Set access and refresh behavior for published content.
API access
A pilot should reproduce one contested business metric and confirm that different users see the right data and the same definition.
“Reports and semantic models for business analysis”
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Commercial
- Founded
- 2013
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- API
- Available
- Website
- powerbi.microsoft.com ↗
What to verify
Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms.
- Validate deployment, data location and access control.
- Test integrations, exports and recovery workflows.
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