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Accessing Power BI from the Office 365 apps menu.
generation workflows.) PowerApps is a product for building apps for mobile devices — think iPhone and Android. Power BI is the data component of this group of products. All of these products work closely with other Office 365 products and are included in Office 365 depending on the subscription you have.
Think of Power BI as a website that lets you connect hundreds of data sources to it so you can build reports and integrate those reports in other products (like Office 365).
Power BI for Office 365 and Power BI are two separate products. Power BI for Office 365 has gone away and Power BI is the next evolution of it. Power BI comes with your Office 365 E5 subscription or you can purchase licensing for it sepa- rately at https://powerbi.microsoft.com. It even starts with a free trial.
To access Power BI, go to your Office 365 tenant and select it from the app menu on the left side of your screen as shown in Figure 12-7.
Pulling data into Power BI
When you first open Power BI you are prompted to add data. You can get data from a number of sources, but the easiest and quickest way to add data to Power BI is to pull data from the apps and services your organization already uses. For example,