Microsoft formerly offered a rather confusing array of centralized business intelligence, reporting, and analytics products aimed primarily at IT developers, with users often assumed to be working with Excel against on-premises SQL Server Analysis Server and SharePoint data sources. The company added cloud-based collaboration in Power BI for Office 365 in 2014, at a rich subscription price. This complemented the Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View and Power Map self-service BI features added to Excel 2013.

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