Learn how to masterfully create interactive reports with Power BI® Desktop.
There is way too much data to process out there, and your data may be in many different sources. How do you make sense of it all? Increasingly, organizations of all sizes are seeking to take advantage of the vast data available to them to identify previously undiscovered insights and gain competitive advantages. The premier tool for this is MS Power BI®, Excel's® big brother, on steroids. These big data desktop tools were out-of-reach just a few short years ago. Today Microsoft® Desktop Power BI® is free. Over the last few years, data has become the lifeblood of organizations. Those organizations that harness the power of big data business intelligence (BI) realize tangible competitive advantages. MS Power BI® allows mangers to rely less on the IT department and achieve more self-service, control, agility and focused business intelligence (BI) using both the data warehouse and outside sources. With MS Power BI® you can easily manipulate several databases. MS Power BI® is easy, fast, and free. This topic will show you how to create rich interactive reports with Power BI® Desktop.
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Agenda
Introduction to Power BI® Desktop
Loading the Data Model - Connecting Power BI® Desktop to Data Sources
- Access® Data
- Excel® Data
- SQL Server Data
Introduction to the Query Editor Interface: Editing Data
Understanding Database Relationships: Power BI® Data Modeling
Power BI® Desktop Report View: Creating Interactive Visualizations/Dashboards
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This course was last revised on October 7, 2019.
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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Tom Fragale
The PC Guy, Inc.
- Computer professional with over 30 years of professional experience
- Microsoft® Certified Trainer, Microsoft® Certified Office Master, Microsoft® Certified Expert in Word® and Excel®, and a Microsoft® Certified Specialist in Access®, Outlook®, and PowerPoint®
- Trained over 30,000 businesspeople in online webinars, public seminars, and onsite training
- Clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including insurance, manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, and retail
- Topics of expertise include Access®, Excel®, Word®, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio®, QuickBooks®, and SharePoint®, among others
- His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft® Access®
- B.A. degree in computer science, LaSalle University
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