Microsoft is finally giving businesses what they really want: data types based on their own customer data.

You can publish an Excel file to Power BI to share with others, analyze a Power BI dataset in Excel, or import Excel data or an entire workbook into Power BI for powerful visualizations.

Sparklines are small charts that fit into a single cell in Microsoft Power BI and visually represent a span of time.

You can now import data from Google Sheets into Microsoft Power BI in just a few easy steps. Find out how in this step-by-step guide.

Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.