Synergetic: Power BI Fundamentals

Microsoft Power BI is the industry’s leading Business Intelligence application. If you’re an Excel or MSQuery 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 these hands-on sessions 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.

These sessions are highly interactive where participants will have an opportunity to widen their Power BI knowledge and capabilities.

In these 2 x 4hr training sessions, you will get a full coverage of Power BI desktop and its interaction with Power BI Service.

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

Learning Outcomes

At the end of these sessions, 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

Session 1: Tuesday 12 March from 10am to 2pm AEDT
Downloading, installing and configuring Power BI Desktop. Importing and manipulating data. (Data modelling if time permits)

Session 2: Thursday 14 March from 10am to 2pm AEDT
Data Modelling, DAX calculations. Best practice tips and online services.