--- title: What is Power BI and What Can it Do? --- [![logo_knowledgewave](https://www.knowledgewave.com/hs-fs/file-2527033439-png/Images/logo_knowledgewave.png)](https://www.knowledgewave.com/?hsLang=en-us) # What is Power BI and What Can it Do? ## Webinar Recording This is a 30-minute webinar recording presented by Louis Le, to learn about some of the exciting features that Power BI offers, and how Power BI can help you effectively analyze and highlight the relevant information from your data. Power BI is data made visual, providing insights that help drive strategic actionable decisions across any industry. Power BI is available to Office 365 users, with a free version and paid Pro version (included in E5 licensing). If you work with data from various sources, and export data to other tools like Excel, this webinar recording is a must-watch. In todays modern business world, as business' pursue modern workplace solutions to find efficiencies, they are leveraging cloud based SAAS solutions, often with behind the scenes intelligence. AI and the collection of so much data provides businesses with the opportunity to use that data collection. Power BI can access data repositories and bring meaningful data reporting that provides actionable insight. Power BI is software by Microsoft that enables businesses to reach across Microsoft 365 resources such as Dynamics, SharePoint Lists, and SQL databases to report data in an impressively visual way. Power BI is growing in popularity because it not only connects to Microsoft data points such as user driven data sources like Excel workbooks, it also can also connect to databases outside the Microsoft world, both locally and cloud based. Power BI in many cases enables the report writer, with the correct credentials to connect to a data source with read permissions to report of that data without the fear of that report writer writing to a data table. This allows the report writer to create reports and surface insights about a company’s data, rolling up real time information from multiple data points to an easy to view and digest visual dashboard that can be consumed and sliced or segmented by the report viewer. ## About KnowledgeWave For the past 20 years, [KnowledgeWave](https://www.knowledgewave.com/about-knowledgewave?hsLang=en-us) has been helping companies deploy and adopt the latest business software. We stay up to date with the most recent software features and are constantly adding additional training to our online learning library, the [KnowledgeWave Learning Site](https://www.knowledgewave.com/kls-video-trial?hsLang=en-us). 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Prior to joining Queryon, Louis was part of the BP Alaska team for 10 years, where he successfully lead the design and deployment of new Power BI reports. Although he specializes in Project Controls, his creativity and strategic skills allow him to approach a wide variety of challenges from different angles and provide innovative solutions. He has a strong focus on data analysis, optimized workflows and data structures, which makes him so inspired about Power BI. **Interested in learning how we can help you with Power BI, please complete the form below or call 800.831.8449.** © 2020 KnowledgeWave - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED