Discovering Microsoft Self-service BI solution: Power BI
Lu, Mengwei (2014)
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405239666
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405239666
Tiivistelmä
With the changing business environment, the importance of Business Intelligence has gained lots of attention. Business Intelligence tools can provide the organizations with a fast and effective decision making process based on the data sources, which might be able to affect the survival of the organization on the market. And because of the changes in the external business environment and the business needs, a new approach of BI solution, Self-service BI solution, is proposed and during the last few years, the number of market players using the approach has increased rapidly.
The objective of the thesis was to build a BI solution according to one of Self-service BI solutions: Power BI provided by Microsoft, one of the leading players in the field of BI.
This study contains two parts. The first part is the theory package which covers the BI and Self-service BI concepts in order to provide the readers with an overall understanding of these concepts. It also sets up the foundation for the empirical part of this thesis project.
The thesis started with analyzing BI and Self-service BI and the relationship between them. After this, the Microsoft BI solution was introduced before moving to the background information about Power BI. The second part of this research discussed how to use Power BI to build a BI solution based on the business case. During this testing process, the necessary steps for building a BI solution were introduced also covering the main functionalities in the tool package. The problems and the possible improvements of the test case were also discussed at the end of the test case.
The outcome of this thesis was a BI solution built using Power BI and it met the requirements set for it. The empirical case presented in this study can be used as a supportive user guide for all those who are interested in Power BI.
The objective of the thesis was to build a BI solution according to one of Self-service BI solutions: Power BI provided by Microsoft, one of the leading players in the field of BI.
This study contains two parts. The first part is the theory package which covers the BI and Self-service BI concepts in order to provide the readers with an overall understanding of these concepts. It also sets up the foundation for the empirical part of this thesis project.
The thesis started with analyzing BI and Self-service BI and the relationship between them. After this, the Microsoft BI solution was introduced before moving to the background information about Power BI. The second part of this research discussed how to use Power BI to build a BI solution based on the business case. During this testing process, the necessary steps for building a BI solution were introduced also covering the main functionalities in the tool package. The problems and the possible improvements of the test case were also discussed at the end of the test case.
The outcome of this thesis was a BI solution built using Power BI and it met the requirements set for it. The empirical case presented in this study can be used as a supportive user guide for all those who are interested in Power BI.