Microsoft Power BI dashboard is a single page that visualizes the highlights of stories extracted from data, through well-designed tiles. Compared to traditional visualizations generated by Microsoft Excel, a Power BI dashboard can handle data from multiple sources and provide more advanced solutions to protect data security, as has been discussed in a previous article. For an end user, like a sales manager, who would benefit from making data-driven decisions, Power BI dashboard can bring them even more advantages.
Interactivity
Power BI dashboards are a powerful tool for data analysis because of their interactive nature. These dashboards allow users to customize their experience by selecting or searching for specific data points and drill-down to focus on specific data regions. The dashboard will automatically display the relevant data visualizations and update all calculations based on the filtering. This flexibility allows users to tailor their analysis based on the current focus and stay up-to-date with real-time data updates.
Simple sharing with security
Sharing dashboards is simply through a unique link but still enables a high standard of security. Only defined people inside the organization, or specific external users identified by email address, can view and interact with the dashboard through the link. The content of the dashboard and underlying data cannot be reshared or edited by the viewers, if they are not permitted to do so. This would avoid disclosing or changing data accidentally and offer a more secure data analysis environment than Excel files.
Access cross platforms
The simple sharing of a Power BI dashboard makes it possible to be accessed across platforms, which will give users more freedom to act independently. As long as they have the right level of access to the dashboard, no matter whether they want to read it on a laptop, tablet or phone, they always get the same content, adjusted to different screen sizes. The dashboard can also be embedded into the organization’s applications or websites, making access even more flexible.
Getting alerts when needed
Another important feature of Power BI dashboard is that you can set alerts when data changes beyond a user-defined limit. This can be used, for example, to get notifications when the daily sales in certain stores drop significantly in a certain period compared to the average. Then you can make a deeper analysis of what may cause this and take action to improve sales. Such notifications and the link to the dashboard can be easily received through email at most once an hour or every 24 hours depending on your settings.
Professionals in data analysis and business strategy at Decision Labs will help you get the most benefits of a Microsoft Power BI dashboard so that you will enable insightful data-driven analysis in a simple, secure and user-friendly way.
