POWER BI DESKTOP VERSION HISTORY SOFTWARE

In February 2019,, a software reviewing company, confirmed Microsoft as Leader in the '2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platform' as a result of the capabilities of Power BI platform.

Most of the 'visuals' in Power BI started life as Datazen visuals. On 14 April 2015, Microsoft announced that they had acquired the Canadian company Datazen, to 'complement Power BI, our cloud-based business analytics service, rounding out our mobile capabilities for customers who need a mobile BI solution implemented on-premises and optimized for SQL Server.' Power BI was first released to the general public on July 24, 2015. With time, Microsoft also added many additional features like Question and Answers, enterprise level data connectivity and security options via Power BI Gateways. The first release of Power BI was based on the Microsoft Excel-based add-ins: Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View. Later renamed to Power BI it was then unveiled by Microsoft in September 2013 as Power BI for Office 365. Project Crescent was initially available for public download on Jbundled with SQL Server Codename Denali. It was originally designed by Ron George in the summer of 2010 and named Project Crescent. This application was originally conceived by Thierry D'Hers and Amir Netz of the SQL Server Reporting Services Team at Microsoft. One main differentiator of the product is the ability to load custom visualizations. In March 2016, Microsoft released an additional service called Power BI Embedded on its Azure cloud platform. It offers data warehouse capabilities including data preparation, data discovery and interactive dashboards.

Power BI provides cloud-based BI (business intelligence) services, known as 'Power BI Services', along with a desktop based interface, called 'Power BI Desktop'.

Power bi desktop version history