Microsoft Integrates Power BI and Fabric, Highlights Power Query
What happened
Microsoft is connecting users of Power BI and Fabric, emphasizing the role of Power Query. Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence tool, which pulls data from various sources into interactive reports. Power Query is the tool used for data preparation, connecting to sources and tidying the data before it moves to the data model and calculations.
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Why it matters
The integration of Fabric and Power BI positions Power Query as a core component of Microsoft's business intelligence offering. This move strengthens the Microsoft ecosystem, potentially increasing user usage of Microsoft's core cloud platform, Azure.
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Who could feel it
Possible knock-on effectsThese are possibilities Brind reasoned out, not predictions, and not advice. Most are not stated in any report.
- IRENSpeculative
IREN might see increased revenue for its cloud infrastructure due to demand for Microsoft's integrated services.
- Amazon Web ServicesSpeculative
Amazon Web Services could face intensified competitive pressure on market share from Microsoft's strengthened BI/AI suite.