Microsoft has been steadily adding AI features to their broad range of business products, and Power BI is no exception. Copilot can be utilized to take full advantage of your existing Power BI reports, even if you are not a full-on Power BI developer.
Take this demo report below, for example:
Visuals are key to understand the complexity behind your enterprise, but many report end-users find it helpful to have summarizations or key insights of those visuals. Copilot has two main experiences which are currently built to help end-users manage and make the most out of reports in Power BI online.
The first would be Copilot’s Report Agent. Report Agent is available within each specific dashboard, providing insights at the dashboard-level.
The Report Agent can summarize Reports or pages, generating natural language summaries of your entire report on-demand. Users can also ask questions about report data in natural language and get real-time responses with key insights.
Report Agent even has the capacity to go beyond answering simple questions. It is even able to create simple visuals from your underlying data, such as a bar graph visualizing the Count of Customer Support Cases by their Priority:
Copilot also has the power to identify trends, top-performing categories, or other such changes over time, providing layers of insight to your reporting needs.
Some reports are built to be shared with a variety of other team members. If there are users subscribed to a specific report, the report author can choose to have Copilot’s natural language summary included in each email message that is sent out. If you are using Copilot’s Power BI Agent, report emails can even include narrative visuals within subscription emails.
Microsoft has also started to build out their Power BI Agent, which is a standalone page in Power BI online. Although the feature is still in Preview mode, Power BI Agent already has functionality which report end-users can take full advantage of.
When using the Power BI agent, users have the opportunity to ask questions about any report, semantic model, or even Fabric data agent which the user has access to. Rather than being restricted to a single report, end users have the freedom to ask questions ranging across workspaces.
Bringing AI-Powered Insights to Power BI
Overall, Microsoft has built out integrations between Power BI and Copilot which are tailor-made to providing value without being a burden on resources. End users can get quick insights on data without using code or advanced technical skills, explore report data without getting lost in the weeds, and expand those insights to other team members without having to endlessly relay information from one person to the next. As our world expands to being more and more data driven, Copilot is there to ensure you don’t get left behind.
Whether you’re building reports or setting up Copilot for Power BI, having the right expertise makes all the difference. Bond Consulting Services can help you make the most of your data.
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