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Power BI for Finance
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Data entry and write-back are key aspects in financial processes like planning, forecasting, and budgeting. Out of the box, Power BI doesn’t offer any write-back capabilities apart from a very basic option in Power BI Desktop with the Enter data feature. This, though, only allows report creators in Power BI Desktop to create simple tables with no options for end users to change them. Equally, core planning features such as data entry on aggregated levels and collaboration options like commenting are not possible without additional third-party solutions in Power BI.
Write-back allows any users to make changes to write-enabled data sources in any Power BI frontend (Desktop or the service) and have those changes reflected in the reports and dashboards they create in real time. This is the foundation for many typical financial processes, including the following: