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Power BI: Key concepts for consumers - Power BI Tutorial
From the course: Getting Started with Power BI
Power BI: Key concepts for consumers
- [Narrator] Models, forecast, and business intelligence are all concepts in the news these days, but none of these are new ideas. In its simple form, business intelligence is about connecting business decision-making to business data, facts about the business and its environment to understand the data driven by your business so that you can make better business decisions. Until recently, business intelligence was only available at the highest organizational levels. The companies that created tools for enterprise business intelligence are large companies, SAP and Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and so on, large companies creating really large, really expensive tools. Enterprise business intelligence was the realm of IT professionals more than any other group of users. IT folks had to develop a great understanding of what was needed in the business so that they could get exactly the right data to create the reports that end users and business managers were requesting. So hours and even days…
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