Power BI and Azure as the future of enterprise analytics

It's not surprising that many of Microsoft's own services are built on Azure, but increasingly Microsoft is also offering Azure services as a way for customers to extend and customise products. When you use dataflows to extract, clean and transform data that you're loading into Power BI, that data is stored in Azure Data Lake. You could also use it in Azure Databricks or for analytics through Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which you can do through the Azure portal, or make interactive using the Power BI Desktop app. The automated machine learning in Power BI is the AutoML feature from Azure Machine Learning, which looks at what you're trying to predict and what data you have available, and iterates through multiple machine-learning algorithms to discover which gets the best score. Or you can take advantage of Azure Cognitive Services to analyse the data in images and text, or build your own machine-learning models and run them.