Introducing Power BI

Power BI is part of the Office 365 suite, it allows you to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.

Every staff member with an Office 365 account can view Power BI reports and dashboards. Users with a Pro Licence can create new content to be shared among colleagues. Data for reports can be sourced from Excel spreadsheets, held in third-party cloud-based applications or an on-premises database.   

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Access Power BI

Power BI is accessed via app.powerbi.com in your web browser.

For more information on this, see the 'Viewing Reports in Power BI' section.

Viewing Reports  in Power BI

Create and Share Power BI Content

Pro Licence holders can create and share content to others in the Organisation.

Creating and Sharing Power BI Content 

Training Resources

There are a lot of training resources for Power BI online. Please see our Training and Resources section for more information on this.

Training Resources for Power BI

Power BI Licence information

Information on how to get a Power BI Pro Licence and the differences between a Free and Pro Licence.

Power BI Licences

Further help

Please see our FAQs section for further information on Power BI

Power BI FAQs

If you need further support with Power BI please have a look at the FAQs section.

If you have any questions  that are not covered in these pages, please contact the IS Helpline. 

Email: is.helpline@ed.ac.uk