Check out IEEE Computing Conversations Podcast by Chuck Severance. Fascinating history and chat with people who made great impact in computing. You can subscribe to the podcast, read the column and also check the youtube channel.
Give Microsoft Power BI a shot. It has a free desktop tool to explore your data quickly, author reports,visualizations and Models and publish them to powerBI service. But you can also leverage Power BI embedded or Power BI as a service to share your reports. an on-premises version is also introduced recently.
Research the licensing carefully. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/