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Flow, Azure ML and Power BI: Achievement Unlocked

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If you've been following Microsoft lately, you'll note Microsoft's self proclaimed, "mobile first, cloud first" strategy. In my opinion, there is no better beneficiary of this new direction than Microsoft's Power BI offering. Power BI, a self-service BI solution allows you to create and author slick reports and publish them to a a web portal to share with users inside your organization, outside of it or even the general public. An added benefit of the solution is its rapid release schedule, providing updates on a monthly basis, coupled with a growing user community providing support and custom visuals. Custom visuals allow you to extend the solution and visualize your data in new and unique ways specific to your business requirements.  While this at a high level is designed for mass adoption, what puts the solution over the top is the disruption pricing - free to 9.99/user/month. The price schedule provides you with additional features and functionality mostly