What is Power BI and what is it used for?
Power BI, from Microsoft, is a business analytics service that connects data sources and lets you build reports and dashboards, which teams publish and share in the online service.
Work starts in Power BI Desktop, a free application for building reports that needs no license. Publishing and sharing depend on the license: someone with the Fabric (Free) license works only in their own personal workspace and cannot share or publish to other people's workspaces.
For people who create and distribute content, Microsoft sells the Power BI Pro license and the Premium Per User (PPU) license. For broad distribution, the alternative is a Fabric capacity of F64 or larger, where users with a Free license and a viewer role can see published content. Below F64, every user who views content needs Pro, PPU or an individual trial.





