Hi Friends,
I have to create a document for IT Director for using Power BI as for visualizing business insight for Executives of the company.
As SQL Developer, I am having very limited understanding of H/W and N/W requirements for Power BI.
We are considering Tableau and Power BI. I am pretty positive that company will go with Power BI, since the price is cheaper.
I would like to just inform you about our current situation.
We have CRM Dynamics for Customer Service and day-to-day operation. We also have CRM Nav for all our financial needs. we have application developed inhouse for Payroll which also runs on SQL Data base.
Right now CRM Nav and Dynamics they do talk to each other when they have to push billing files and those customer information which they have to bill across NAV and Dynamics. However we are using SSRS reports right now which show information from NAV and Dynamics individually.
We would like to create centralize environment were dynamics, NAV and Payroll DB are at one place (I meant by DW), were Executives can drag and drop certain fields across these three platforms for the report they wish to generate( These business requirements will be predefine based on their needs.).
Since everythign has to be on-premise, nothing that goes on Microsoft cloud for syncronize.
I do have couple of basic questions for experts here?
- What we need to have to use Power BI, in terms of Harware and Networking, specially when we have to use it on Premise?
- Is it just $9.99 per users or more?
- Can we connect directly to CRM Nav and CRM Dynamics on-premise directly or we have to connect it to SQL DB's and kind of doing ETL, Data Modeling and using fact and dimensions and they put Power BI on top to get the result you want!!
I know it's lot of informaiton and might be confusing, but please let me know if you need any other information which will help you to help me.
Thanks in Advance.
MangoJuice.