Microsoft’s Power BI Desktop, integrated with Excel, offers a powerful solution for transforming data into rich, interactive dashboards.

Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.

Excel can now automatically access any data published in Power BI from corporate sources you have access to: Your Power BI tables are available to you through the data types gallery.

Power BI is a cloud service that lets users access and share their Microsoft Excel reports anywhere on any device. The service works with Excel in tandem to offer a complete self-service analytics ...

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Microsoft Power BI uses measures the same way Microsoft Excel uses functions. Learn how to recognize them in use and how to manipulate them when you want something different.

Here is a complete guide to learning how to download and use the Power BI Desktop application to create data visuals and reports.

2. Explore ‘What-ifs’ Like Excel, Power BI offers slicers for comparing scenarios. But with Power BI, you can simply drag a slider bar to show the impact of changes.

There is no COUNTIF function in Microsoft Power BI. If you need to apply that logic, you’ll have to turn to other measures.