Power BI on the Web

The most popular way of using Power BI is on the Web. This is due to the fact that Power BI could be used on any device with a suitable Web browser. It also gives several options which are not available in other forms of usage such as follows.

• Creating Power BI Dashboards
• Pinning Power BI Visualizations in Reports to Dashboards
• Sharing Power BI Reports and Dashboards
• Power BI Q&A on related datasets

Creating a Power BI Account

In order to use Power BI on the Web, first we need to create a free Power BI account or paid Power BI Pro account. This could be done using the following steps.

• Visit https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
• Select "Get started free"
• Select "Sign up"
• Enter "your work e-mail address"

Note: You cannot use a personal e-mail account such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, ...