Technology Magazine November 2020 | Page 66

MICROSOFT POWER BI
AI & DATA ANALYTICS
66 with SAP ’ s HANA database , easier license granting and functionality to write to external databases . One of Tableau ’ s offerings is self-service analytics , intended to allow customers and partners to also make sense of data , provide more clarity and give weight to a company ’ s claims .
MICROSOFT POWER BI
Among Microsoft ’ s vast list of products is its data analysis software , Power BI . Focused on business intelligence , from which its name derives , the cloud-based software allows for the visualisation of data , with a focus on collaboration and speed of analysis . Power BI natively integrates with Microsoft ’ s Azure cloud services , passing in data sources for analysis , and pushes the power of visualisation . In this case , Microsoft says its intention is to democratise a company ’ s data and create a datadriven culture wherein all stakeholders are privy to the data they need to best do their jobs .
It ’ s clear to see that making data human-readable is a real emphasis that stretches across these solutions , which drives home the fact that the
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