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Power BI (with Copilot)
Microsoft dashboards with scheduled data refresh and natural-language queries
Choose it if you have an analyst and data from many sources; skip it if Looker Studio or Excel is enough.
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About this service
Microsoft BI platform for dashboards built from multiple data sources, with scheduled refresh. A free account is included in Microsoft Fabric free, but you can share reports only with a Pro or Premium license. According to the preliminary check, Copilot in Power BI requires Fabric capacity, so it is usually not available to small businesses.
What you can do with it
- dashboard of revenue, margin, and stock levels
- scheduled report from several sources
- team reports from Excel and SQL
Who it suits
- companies with 6+ data sources and an analyst
Strengths
- professional dashboards and scheduled refresh
- low-cost Pro ($14 per user with annual billing)
- mature Microsoft product
Limitations
- Copilot is usually not available to small businesses (needs Fabric capacity)
- more complex than Looker Studio
- purchase is not available in some regions
Integrations
- Excel
- SQL
- Dataverse
- Shopify (via connectors)
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