Microsoft Power BI
Overview
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Microsoft Power BI is a general-purpose business intelligence platform and a core analytics workload within Microsoft Fabric. District teams can connect files, databases, cloud systems, warehouses, and APIs; transform and model data; build interactive reports; and distribute governed dashboards through Microsoft workspaces and applications.
The data model determines how records become a measure. Analysts coordinate refresh schedules, access, and definitions with departmental owners before dashboards are used in operational or public discussions. A dashboard can summarize many systems while inheriting their limitations. Documented definitions and refresh timing help viewers understand what a displayed measure represents.
Features
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Data preparation and modeling
- Connects to many databases, files, cloud platforms, services, and on-premises sources through gateways.
- Uses Power Query, dataflows, semantic models, relationships, calculations, and shared metrics to prepare analysis.
Reports and dashboards
- Creates interactive charts, maps, tables, filters, drill-through pages, paginated reports, and mobile layouts.
- Supports scheduled refresh, real-time data, subscriptions, alerts, exports, and embedded analytics.
Microsoft ecosystem
- Publishes insights in Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Fabric, and other Microsoft services.
- Uses Microsoft Entra identities, workspaces, sensitivity labels, row-level security, and governance controls.
District implementation
- Can analyze any instructional or operational domain for which the district builds a trusted data model.
- Requires explicit data engineering, validation, privacy, accessibility, and ownership processes rather than providing them as a K–12 turnkey package.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A
Microsoft Power BI Privacy Policy:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
Yes
Company News
- Company News
Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
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- Share rich data visualizations that help everyone make decisions based on facts, not instinct.
- Distribute findings to team members inside and outside your organization, adjusting permissions as needed.
- Access visualizations on the go using the Power BI Mobile app to make data-driven decisions from anywhere.
- Enhance collaboration by using team commenting and stay current with content subscriptions and update alerts.
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