Power BI brings intuitive data analysis to both the executive level as well as Microsoft Office power users who have a penchant for number crunching, data slicing and dicing, and reporting.

Before Power BI, Microsoft's story here was weak. SQL Server Analysis Services was a very powerful back-end BI platform (and Power BI still uses the SSAS engine), and SQL Server Reporting Services ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...