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Power BI Fundamentals

Length 2 days
Price NZD 1600 exc GST

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Why study this course

Power BI is an industry leader and one of the largest and fastest-growing business intelligence cloud solutions, used by over 35,000 companies worldwide.

Power BI is a suite of Microsoft tools used for business analytics, visualisation, and reporting, forming part of the broader Power Platform ecosystem. Power BI delivers supported decision-making through actionable insights, empowering users to conduct thorough data analytics and data analysis. It provides interactive reporting and business intelligence capabilities, allowing users to easily connect to, model, and visualise organisational and public data. This capability enables users to create compelling data visualisations that facilitate informed decision-making based on organisational and public data, thereby enabling the creation of robust data models for informed decision-making.

Key components of the Power BI suite include Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Mobile Apps, and Power BI Gateway, among others.

Power BI training is designed to give participants a fundamental understanding of the tools. Participants will learn how to use the Power BI tools by following a simple workflow that can be used to design, develop, deploy, and share Power BI reports and dashboards. Microsoft Power BI courses, such as this course from Lumify Work, help you learn how to use these tools effectively and efficiently.

The Microsoft Power BI fundamentals course is an entry-level workshop for professionals in New Zealand. If you are looking for a more in-depth technical course on advanced Power BI, see our Microsoft PL-300T00 Power BI Data Analyst course.

Important note: Power BI is a Microsoft App that is not currently supported on non-Windows systems (such as Apple Mac).

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What you’ll learn

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

Connect to various data sources and extract data
Shape data to ensure that all data is necessary, clean, and transformed appropriately
Model data to add any necessary derived calculations, columns, and tables
Utilise out-of-the-box and custom visualisations to display data appropriately
Publish reports and datasets to the Power BI service
Create dashboards, and use workspaces and apps to share Power BI objects

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Who is the course for?

Microsoft Power BI Fundamentals training is an entry-level two-day workshop designed for anyone who needs to be able to analyse and visualise data using Power BI.

Students can attend the Power BI course on campus in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, or online.

Course subjects

Module 1: Introduction to Power BI

What is Power BI?
A brief history of Power BI
Power BI components
- Power BI Report Server
Power BI architecture
Power BI Workflow
Getting started with Power BI
- Power BI Desktop
- Power BI Service
- Power BI Help

Module 2: Getting Data

Power BI Workflow
Get data process flow
Data Sources
Data Base Data Sources
Data Base Queries
File Sources
Web Pages

Module 3: Shaping Data

Shaping vs Transforming Data
Shaping Data Overview
Where should I do the Shaping?
- Shaping Data in SQL
- Shaping Data in DAX
- Shaping Data in Power Query
The Power Query Editor
First Pass at Shaping
Applied Steps
The Advanced Editor
- Advanced Shaping

Module 4: Modelling Data

Relationships
- Cardinality
- Cross Filter Direction
- Role Playing Dimensions
Optimising the Model
- Configuring Data for Q&A
Hierarchies
Introduction to DAX
- Calculated Columns
- Calculated Measures

Module 5: Visualising Data

Visualisations
- Charts
- Filters
- Slicers
- Maps
- Tables
- Tree Maps
Formatting Visuals
- Page Layout and Formatting
- Mobile Layout
- Custom Visuals
- Report Themes

Module 6: Publishing to Power BI

Publishing to the service
Dashboards
- Dashboards vs Reports
Q&A
Power BI Insights
Apps
- Creating Workspaces and Apps
- What can you do with an App?

Prerequisites

In order to attend this course you must have Power BI Desktop installed on your local desktop or laptop prior to attendance. Download Power BI Desktop from Microsoft here. Power BI accessed through a browser or Microsoft Teams does not have the features and functionality needed to complete this course. Remote connection to your work desktop or laptop is also not suitable.

In addition you will need to be able to extract compressed (ZIP) files to your desktop or laptop.

We recommend dual monitors, especially if your primary monitor is a laptop screen.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.