Do It Yourself Business Intelligence
Half Day Course
Microsoft has created an alternative environment for creating user-interactive reports using rich visuals without Excel. The free Power BI Desktop application allows business professionals to create analysis from your raw data using quick and easy drag-and-drop processes, similar to Excel’s Power View, but without the need to invest in Excel 2013/2016.
If you have an older version of Office, are using a Mac, or have large data sets that require the additional memory space of a 64-bit application, Power BI Desktop is for you. It has more than twice the data visualizations available in Power View, connects to many more external data sources, includes all of the data connections and transformation capabilities of Power Query, and allows completed analysis to be shared or published to PowerBI.com. Power BI Desktop opens a new era in data analysis and reporting. Don't miss this opportunity to see this amazing new reporting tool in action.
If you have an older version of Office, are using a Mac, or have large data sets that require the additional memory space of a 64-bit application, Power BI Desktop is for you. It has more than twice the data visualizations available in Power View, connects to many more external data sources, includes all of the data connections and transformation capabilities of Power Query, and allows completed analysis to be shared or published to PowerBI.com. Power BI Desktop opens a new era in data analysis and reporting. Don't miss this opportunity to see this amazing new reporting tool in action.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the advantages of working with Power BI Desktop and list the relevant limitations associated with using Power View to produce similar reports;
- Identify how to acquire Power BI Desktop and a PowerBI.com subscription;
- Explain data models and how to create and work with them in Power BI Desktop;
- List several ways in which data can be displayed and presented on a Power BI report; and
- Describe how Power BI reports present information better than ordinary tabular reportsCreate Excel-based BI dashboards
Course Information
- CPE credit: Recommended for 3.5 hours
- Instructional delivery method: This course will be taught in Power BI Desktop for Windows. The program focuses on Power BI desktop and we encourage you to bring your windows laptop equipped with Power BI Desktop to follow along with the instructor. Currently there is no Power BI Desktop for macOS.
- Prerequisites: Basic understanding of computer operations and terminology, including Microsoft Office Excel.
- Program level: Advanced
- Advance preparation: Download and install the free Power BI desktop application from https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/.
- Who should participate: Business professionals seeking to develop and implement Power BI.