Synergetic: Power BI Fundamentals

Microsoft Power BI is the industry’s leading Business Intelligence application. If you’re an Excel or MS Query user and want to take your reporting and dashboarding skills to a next level then Microsoft Power BI is the answer.

Description

Power BI is a business analytics service that gives you a single view of your business data, with the ability to monitor the health of your business using live dashboards, create rich interactive reports and access your data on the go, from your mobile devices
The goal of this hands-on session is to help you understand how to analyse your data in a rich and compelling way. Whether you are evaluating its ability to meet organisational requirements around data visualisation and analysis or are looking to learn how Power BI can help you be more efficient and make a greater impact on the work you do every day, this is the training for you.
This session is highly interactive where participants will have an opportunity to widen their Power BI knowledge and capabilities. In this one-day training session, you will get a full coverage of Power BI desktop and its interaction with Power BI Service.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the day, attendees will better understand how to:

  • Connect to, import, and combine data from a variety of sources
  • Clean and transform transactions data inside the Query Editor
  • Data modelling techniques and best practices
  • What DAX is and how to make sense of its different evaluation contexts
  • Visualisation techniques and how to turn your dashboard into a piece of art
  • Sharing and collaborations in Power BI across your entire organisation
  • Exploring the Power BI Service and how it interacts with Power BI Desktop
  • Monitor critical KPI by setting alarms to receive notification on your mobile app

Target Audience

  • Anyone who loves data!
  • Excel users wishing to upgrade their reporting capabilities
  • Data analysts
  • Business Managers / analysts
  • Information analysts
  • DB administrators
  • Project managers
  • Financial Managers / analysts
  • Marketers

Prerequisites

You must have Power BI downloaded, installed and configured to read from your Database:

Power BI Desktop | Microsoft Power Platform

Power BI - Synergetic User Hub - Confluence

We highly recommend you contact us prior to the course if you need assistance, as we will not be able to support this process during the course.