A key strategy of Microsoft's big data solution is the integration of Business Intelligence (BI) components with HDInsight. This is seen with the integration of Microsoft Power Query of Excel with data stored in the HDInsight cluster.

Let's take our airline on-time performance project; the summary analysis showed us that the flight from carrier EV in the month of June has high delays. If we want to get into further details, we can use Power Query in Excel to filter and search for the top flights delayed for that airline in that month.