Category: Power BI

Power BI’s rich ecosystem of AppSource offers freely build solutions that can supercharge your analytics. In this guide, we will highlight several must-try free Power BI (PBI) custom visuals and additional PBI apps with pro features that Power BI users should explore in 2025.

Power BI’s Goals (Metrics) feature enables data analysts to track key metrics in real-time and automate alerts when thresholds are crossed. In this blog, we will walk through creating a live, automated Power BI Goals scorecard using real-time earthquake data from the USGS.

Microsoft Power BI is a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) tool that helps companies turn data into insights that can be used for business decision making. The Power BI ecosystem is a collection of tools and services that provide an end-to-end BI solution. With Power BI, users can connect to multiple data sources, create data models, transform data, produce eye-catching visualisations, and share insights with other teams and organisations.

You’re working on your first major Power BI report. The data is clean, the model is solid, and you’ve carefully assembled charts and tables to bring the story to life. Everything seems to be falling into place. But then comes a perfectly reasonable request from a stakeholder:

Power BI apps are a simple way to package and share your Power BI content (like dashboards and reports) with others. Imagine you’re an HR analyst who built multiple reports showing employee hiring trends and history. You might want to share these reports with your team or management in a convenient, read-only format. This is exactly what Power BI apps are for: they allow easy sharing of curated insights, providing your colleagues with cleaner, focused access to the data they need. Benefits include one-stop access to multiple reports, automatic updates (no need to email out new files), and the ability to target content to specific audiences.