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Power BI Service

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to help you create, share, and consume business insights in the way that serves you and your business most effectively.

The Microsoft Power BI service (https://app.powerbi.com) is the Software as a Service (SaaS) part of Power BI. The Power BI service lets you consume and interact with reports, as well as individual visual elements found in those reports, right from your browser.Dashboardsin the Power BI service help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business. Dashboards displaytiles, which you can select to openreportsfor exploring further. Dashboards and reports create their interactive visuals based on thesemantic modelson which they are based, enabling your data to become visuals, and those visuals to be organized into reports to provide you with business intelligence you can act upon.

Need help with understanding the building blocks that make up Power BI? SeeBasic concepts for designers in the Power BI service.

The other main components of Power BI are Power BI Desktop - a Windows app you can download for free and use to create reports - and Power BI Mobile apps available for iOS and Android devices. You and your colleagues can use these three elements—Power BI Desktop, the service, and the mobile apps—to create, share, and consume business insights. ReadWhat is Power BI?for an overview.​