Imagine that you work in a company and the CFO, or someone in management, asks you the following questions. Could you create me a report that shows:
The sales and profit by customer and salesperson
The top ten cities or countries, by sales
Current year sales, on a timeline
Then they mention the fact that the report should use data from the live Dynamics NAV database, it should be able to refresh on the fly, and it should be easy to analyze the data and, if possible make it flexible so that they can create more views and analysis on the same data.
Well, with PowerBI.com, you will be able to do that, very quickly and without much technical knowledge.
If you go to www.powerbi.com, you can subscribe, for free, to the preview version of PowerBI.com:
Once you sign up, you can use the website, as an alternative to Power Bi Designer, to create reports, dashboards, queries, and so on. You can also upload Excel files, other types of files, and previously created Power BI Designer files, as in...