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Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It allows users to create interactive visualizations and business intelligence reports on data from various sources, including databases, cloud services, spreadsheets, and more. One of the key features of Power BI is its ability to connect to diverse data sources, such as Excel files, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure Cosmos DB, and even websites. This allows users to analyze and visualize data in various contexts and create comprehensive reports. Power BI provides various tools for data preparation, visualization, and analysis. It includes a suite of data transformation functions that make it easy to extract, transform, and load data from these sources directly into the Power BI application. Users can then create reports by using various visualizations such as charts, graphs, maps, and gauges, which can be arranged on dashboards. Power BI integrates well with other Microsoft products, such as Azure Stack, Access, Azure, and SQL Server, but it can also be integrated with other applications like Google Analytics, Salesforce, or SharePoint, among many others. Users can share their reports within their organizations using the Power BI Service, which offers various access levels for collaborative work. For instance, users can share direct links to reports, schedule automatic refresh of reports, or embed them in websites or SharePoint sites. The Power BI Community page is active and provides a forum for users to share knowledge, request new features, and find available resources. Power BI also regularly releases updates, new features, and bug fixes.