Power BI for Business Analysts

• An understanding of business analytics concepts

Audience

• Business managers
• Business analysts
• Data analysts
• Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouse (DW) teams
• Report developers

Microsoft Power BI is a free Software as a Service (SaaS) suite for analyzing data and sharing insights. Power BI dashboards provide a 360-degree view of the most important metrics in one place, updated in real time, and available on all of their devices.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to use Microsoft Power BI to analyze and visualize data using a series of sample data sets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create visually compelling dashboards that provide valuable insights into data.
• Obtain and integrate data from multiple data sources.
• Build and share visualizations with team members.
• Adjust data with Power BI Desktop.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• This training is based on the latest version of Splunk.
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

Data Visualization

• Authoring in Power BI Desktop
• Creating reports
• Interacting with reports
• Uploading reports to the Power BI Service
• Revising report layouts
• Publishing to PowerBI.com
• Sharing and collaborating with team members

Data Modeling

• Aquiring data
• Modeling data
• Security
• Working with DAX
• Refreshing the source data
• Securing data

Advanced Querying and Data Modeling

• Data modeling principals
• Complex DAX patterns
• Power BI tips and tricks

Summary and Conclusion