Module 1 – Introduction to Power BI

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 Agenda
What is Business Stages of Business
01 Intelligence? 02 Intelligence

03 BI Use Cases 04 Various BI Tools

Introduction to
05 Why Power BI? 06 Power BI

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07 Power BI Components 08 Power BI Pricing

Building Blocks of Architecture of

09 10 Power BI
Power BI

Power BI Desktop
11 Power BI Desktop 12 Installation

Creating Reports in
13 Power BI

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What is Business
Intelligence?

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What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence (BI) is a set of processes, architectures, and technologies that help in the
collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information. The purpose of Business
Intelligence is to enable stakeholders make better business decisions

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Stages of Business
Intelligence

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Stages of Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence is generally divided into four stages:

Collection

Decision-
Data
making/
Cleansing
Prediction

Reporting/
Visualization

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 Stages of Business Intelligence

Collection

Collection

Decision- Data
making/ Cleansing
Prediction

Reporting/ Data is collected either from the existing sources, such as ERP
Visualization data, company database, etc., or externally through polls, forms,
and others

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Data Cleansing

Collection

Decision-
Data
making/
Cleansing
Prediction

Reporting/ Identifying irrelevant parts of the data and modifying, deleting,

Visualization or replacing the coarse data

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Reporting/Visualization

Collection

Decision-
Data
making/
Cleansing
Prediction

Reporting/ Graphical representation of data using visual elements such as

Visualization charts, graphs, tables, etc.

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Decision-
making/Prediction

Collection

Decision-
Data
making/
Cleansing
Prediction

Reporting/ The last stage is making business decisions and monitoring and
Visualization predicting business trends based on the report developed

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BI Use Cases

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BI Use Cases

BI is everywhere!

Performance
Management Financial Analysis Education

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BI Use Cases

Data Semantics makes use of BI for sales reporting and

sales prediction dashboards

Business Intelligence allows the company to make

decisions at the right time

BI also allows the company to discover why its sales are

dropping in a particular domain and helps it understand
where it needs to perform better

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BI Use Cases

Source: Microsoft
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BI Use Cases

Dell uses Business Intelligence in its education data

management

It uses various dashboards and KPIs to improve student

performance, monitor the efficiency of programs, and
help identify the students who need assistance

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Various BI Tools

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BI Tools

These are the most commonly used BI tools

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Why Power BI?

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Why Power BI?

01 Affordability

02 Natural Language Query

03 Real-time Streaming

04 Custom Visualization

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Why Power BI?

Affordability

01 Affordability
The Power BI Desktop version is available for free, which can be
used for report building on a computer. If we want to use more
02 Natural Language Query Power BI services, then we can buy Power BI Service at an
affordable cost

03 Real-time Streaming

04 Custom Visualization

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Natural Language
Query
01 Affordability
This feature allows users to type questions and get answers in a
user-specific format. This is mainly useful in getting quick
02 Natural Language Query insights from data

03 Real-time Streaming

04 Custom Visualization

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Real-time Streaming

01 Affordability
This feature allows users to stream real-time data and update
dashboards in real time, which helps them make timely business
02 Natural Language Query decisions

03 Real-time Streaming

04 Custom Visualization

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Custom Visualization

01 Affordability
Power BI has visualizations that are made by developers for
specific use cases. These custom visualizations are available in
02 Natural Language Query Power BI Marketplace

03 Real-time Streaming

04 Custom Visualization

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Introduction to Power BI

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Introduction to Power BI

Power BI is a Business Intelligence platform, which provides tools for

aggregating, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data

Data Data
Transformation Visualization

Data Data Sharing

Connection Modeling Reports

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Power BI Components

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Power BI Components

Power BI Report
Power BI Desktop Power BI Service Power BI Gateway
Server

Power BI Mobile Power BI Excel Power BI Report Power BI

App Publisher Builder Embedded

Power BI Embedded

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Power BI Components

Power BI Desktop
It is a free application that helps us connect to
multiple data sources and transform and visualize
our data

Power BI Service
It is a cloud-based service where users view and
share their reports and dashboards

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Power BI Components

Power BI Gateway
It is mainly used for scheduled data referesh

Power BI Report Server

It is an on-premises web interface and an alternate for
Power BI Service

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Power BI Components

Power BI Mobile App

Power BI offers a set of mobile apps for Android,
iOS, and Windows mobile devices through which
users can securely access and view their live
dashboards and reports

Power BI Excel Publisher

It is mainly used for ingtegrating MS Excel with
Power BI

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Power BI Report Builder

It helps in developing paginated reports such as
invoices, receipts, delivery notes, etc.

Power BI Embedded
It helps in the integration of BI reports with other
applications

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Power BI Pricing

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Power BI Pricing

Features Power BI Free Power BI Pro Power BI Premium

License Per user Per user Capacity based

70+ data sources

Ability to publish and consume content

from app workspaces and dashboards

Cost Free US$9.99/month US$4,995/month

Storage limit 10 GB 10 GB 100 TB
Data refresh rate 8/day 8/day 48/day
Ability to export content to Excel and CSV
files

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Building Blocks of Power BI

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Building Blocks of Power BI

Visualization Datasets Dashboards

Visualization is the A datasets is the container A dashboard collects the
graphical representation of of the data. It can be Excel most important metrics on
information and data using sheets or a company- one screen to answer
charts, graphs, maps, etc. owned database of users’ questions or to tell
customers them a story

Reports Tiles
A report is a multi- A Power BI tile is a
perspective view snapshot of the data
with visuals that pinned to the
represent different dashboard
findings and
insights from the
dataset

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Architecture of Power BI

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Architecture of Power BI

Data Sources

Power BI
Service
Access

Connect Power BI Gateway

Publish

Multiple Devices

Power BI Desktop

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Power BI Desktop

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Power BI Desktop

Power BI Desktop combines Microsoft Query Engine (M) with visualization

and data modeling for creating interactive reports

Power BI

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Power BI Desktop
Installation

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Power BI Desktop Installation

• Go to Microsoft’s official website, and select Power BI Desktop

• Select the language of your choice to download Power BI

• Choose the file based on your operating system

• Then, download and install it on your local machine

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Demo: Installing Power BI
Desktop

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Creating Reports in Power BI

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Creating Reports in Power BI

The three-step process in creating reports in Power BI are:

Connect to Data Sources

Transform Data into a

Model

Add Visualization

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Connect to Data Sources

Connect to Data With Power BI Desktop, we can connect to many different data
sources to collect data
Sources

Transform Data into a Database

SaaS
Model Connections Connectors

Azure
Add Visualization Online Data
Services Sources

File
Connectors

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Transform Data into a
Model

Connect to Data Power Query Editor in Power BI Desktop helps us transform the
data into a model
Sources

Transform Data into a

Fill
Model Group by

Add Visualization Pivot and Transpose

unpivot

Merge

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Add Visualization

Connect to Data Data visualizations bring data to life, using colors and shapes
Sources

Transform Data into a

Cards
Model Charts

Add Visualization Tables

Maps

Trees

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Demo: Creating a Report in
Power BI

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