Power BI is obviously a great tool to display and discuss analytics. It lets you create dashboards and reports with various types of visualizations that give you insights on various aspects of your establishment. But what if you are presenting a PowerPoint deck to an audience and want to include your Power BI analytics in your session? Exiting PowerPoint and opening Power BI is, of course, always a possibility, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could display your Power BI analytics right in a PowerPoint slide?

(sing the following lines to the tune of Enter Sandman by Metallica)

Exit: Press escape to get out of PowerPoint and open Power BI in a browser window

Enter: an add-in for PowerPoint called “Power BI Tiles”!

Power BI Tiles is an extremely easy to use, third party add-in for PowerPoint that lets you display your Power BI reports and dashboards in your PowerPoint slides. With just a few clicks, it brings in all the insights from your Power BI goodness into your PowerPoint so your audience could be mesmerized without you having to awkwardly press escape to exit PowerPoint and switch to a browser to display your Power BI dashboards!

Watch the following video to see how easy it is to embed Power BI tiles in a PowerPoint slide. I made this video on a (late) Saturday night at my partner’s father’s house while everyone was sleeping – hence the awkward whispering!