Power BI Training

Learn how to use Power BI to build impressive dashboards, easily analyse, visualise and transform data. Work collaboratively with your team and share highly visual reports in seconds within your company. We can help you carry out your day to day tasks quickly and efficiently by giving you the knowledge to apply time saving skills and shortcuts that can be applied in the workplace.

Our Power BI Dashboard in a day course will provide the essential skills to get started with Power BI and our 2 day Advanced DAX course will take your skills to the next level.

This course can be booked for a group in a private closed session or contact us for the next public course date. Virtual Power BI Training and onsite training options currently available.

Overview 

This course delivers an instructor-led introduction to the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI. Students will be taught how to design reports that will work with a variety of data sources and build new reporting capabilities for their business. At a glance this course covers an overview, requirements gathering, designing reports and working with workspaces and dashboards.

Introduction

• What is business intelligence?

• Introducing Power BI

• Power BI tools and services

• Case studies

• Data stories

• Support and information

Requirements Gathering

• Beginning a Power BI project

• Grain statements

• Data discovery

• Refining information

• Modelling data

• Building reports

• Creating dashboards

• Choosing workspaces

• Create and share a report in Power BI

Designing Reports

• Adding pages and navigation buttons

• Using shapes, text and images

• Creating a theme

• Adding visualisations

• Using filters and slicers

• Adding drill throughs

• Adding custom visualisations

• Configure phone layouts

• Report tips and tricks

Working with Workspaces and Dashboards

• Power BI licensing

• My workspaces

• App workspaces

• Premium capacity workspaces

• Publishing a project

• Parallels with Microsoft Excel

• Publishers and viewers

• Reconnecting with data sources

• Scheduling the data refresh frequency

• Introducing the on-premises data gateway

• Assigning security roles

• Creating and populating dashboards

• Customising dashboard tiles

• Creating tiles using Q&A and quick insights

• Creating a mobile dashboard

• Sharing reports and dashboards

• Publishing apps in a workspace

• Publishing content to websites