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EdwinWang's avatar
EdwinWang
New Member
10 years ago

Power BI and Power Pivot/Pivotchart

Dear all, I am a new beginner in Power BI. I want to get more advantage knowledge in BI and data anlayse. But, during the first several looks in it, I want to ask a question to clarify something. The question is " if I alreay use power Pivot and pivot chart in a very efficient way, why I need to swich to power BI? Because, before all the data visulization, I still need to use query to input the data. The way I use power BI is so familar that the way I use power Pivot or pivotchart". 

 

Thanks a lot ! 

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  • MattAllington's avatar
    MattAllington
    Community Champion
    10 years ago

    The main reasons are

     

    1.  Share workbooks up to 1GB easily over the web

    2.  leverage cross filter behaviour of Power BI

    3.  Leverage many new visualisations that you can't access in Excel

    4.  Create dashboards from different data sources (workbooks) in a single view.

    5.  It is free - you don't even need to buy Excel

     

    There are probably more