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Power BI

Power BI Training
Module outline

• A new generation of BI
• Introducing Microsoft Power BI
• Power BI overview
• Signing up for Power BI
• Creating and exploring reports
• Connecting to Power BI data sources
A new generation of BI
• Turning data into business insights is challenging

• Common BI challenges include…

Data often resides in disparate locations, making it difficult


End-to-end view to see a complete picture of your business

Data residing in SaaS solutions, and other external locations,


Multiple data sources is difficult to access and refresh securely

Right data for the right Different roles have different needs, and business users need
users at the right time the latest operational data
Introducing Microsoft Power BI
• Experience your data. Any data, any way, anywhere.

• Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables:


• Fast and easy access to data
• A live 360º view of the business
Power BI
• Data discovery and exploration
• Insights from any device
• Collaboration across the organization
• Anyone to visualize and analyze data
Power BI overview
• No matter what industry, or what role, Power BI is relevant

• Business user
• Import data from SaaS sources, and work with dashboards and reports
• Business analyst
• Import, reshape, integrate and model data
• Create compelling reports and visualizations
• Create content packs to share insights
• BI professional
• Connect to live Azure data services
• Connect to on-premises Analysis Services databases
• Empower colleagues to create their own reports
• Developer
• Integrate applications with Power BI
• Create real-time dashboards
• Develop custom visuals
Signing up for Power BI
• Sign up can be achieved for free, and within
seconds
• Power BI works only with an organizational account,
associated with a work or school email address
• Encourage customers to trial Power BI for free, and
to realize the benefits of Power BI Pro features
Creating and exploring reports
• Creating reports

• Use reports to layout visualizations across one or


more pages
• Rich, interactive reports can be created, updated
and explored in the web browser experience
• A report is based on a single dataset
• Reports consist of one or more pages
• Each page can be named, and consists of visualizations and
shapes
Connecting to Power BI data sources
• Formats: Files: Transposition to Power BI

• Power BI Desktop files:


• File ► Power BI dataset
• Report ► Power BI report
• An empty dashboard is automatically created, with a token tile to connect to the dataset
(i.e. Q&A ready)
• Excel workbooks:
• Data model content takes precedence over worksheet content
• Workbook data model ► Power BI dataset
• Power View sheets ► Pages of a Power BI report
• PivotTables, PivotCharts and custom fields are not recognized
➢Presenter name: kathika.kalyani
➢Email address: info@3zenx.com
➢Website address: www.3ZenX.com

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