AI Magazine June 2021 | Page 81

A peek into Microsoft Power BI ’ s roadmap revealing exciting capabilities like real-time analytics and organisational goals tracking

Today , data comes from the real world – whether it is the devices people use , to everyday human interaction . Power BI ’ s mission is to make access to data paramount to every business operation through its solutions and empowers individuals , teams and organizations to drive a data culture . Some of the latest innovations include bringing performance management to Power BI for the first time with the introduction of Goals and low-code real-time data analysis with Streaming Data Flows . Power BI helps make tracking business goals accessible and personalised . It is also worth noting that Goals is natively integrated into the Microsoft Teams experience . The goals algorithm is also AI assisted so organisations can better understand how they ’ re doing and where are the opportunities for improvement . Finally , Microsoft is working towards integrating it with Power Automate , so organisations can define business processes that get automatically triggered as the goals change status . Goals will soon be available as a mobile experience too , so teams can stay up to date and take action in real-time . On that note , another major announcement from Microsoft features real-time analytics . Power BI has been a pioneer in real time analytics from the start with a simple vision – that the distinctions between batch , real time , and streaming data today will disappear over time . Power BI will launch Streaming Data Flows soon , allowing a low-code approach to working with real-time data for every business .

Arun Ulagarathchagan , Corporate Vice President of the Power BI team says that the business analytics tool has a clear , data-driven purpose , adding “ Our vision here in the Power BI team is to help you drive a data culture where everyone can make every decision with data .”