Connecting Power BI to PostgreSQL Database

Introduction Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool developed by Microsoft that allows user to connect to multiple data sources, transform and model data, and create reports and dashboards. Power BI is used to perform data analysis and provide business intelligence by allowing analysts to import data from various sources such as databases, clean and transform the data, create relationships using the data and perform calculations using DAX(data analysis expressions). Why do organizations connect Power BI to databases? Organizations connect Power BI directly to databases because of reasons such as: Databases store large volumes of data efficiently and connecting Power BI to these databases allows analysts to work with enterprise scale data. Connecting Power BI to a database provides data consistency ensuring that everyone in the organization works with the same data. Databases offer real-time or near real-time reporting as databases receive new data enabling anal