Technology Magazine March 2026 | Page 56

TOP 10 – BI PLATFORMS

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MICROSOFT POWER BI

FOUNDED: 2011 COMPANY CEO: SATYA NADELLA
Microsoft Power BI is a leader in the BI space – not just because of how widely it is used, but through the architectural revolution of Microsoft Fabric. Under product leader Arun Ulagaratchagan, Microsoft has unified the entire data estate – engineering, science, and analytics – into a single SaaS experience. DirectLake mode has eliminated data movement, while Copilot has matured into a true analyst-in-a-box, capable of building reports and reasoning over data via conversational language. With Office 365 integration, Power BI is the go-to operating system of modern business decision-making. Its ubiquitous presence in 97 % of the
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