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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Preparing a content creation and collaboration environment in Power BI
  • Managing migration of Power BI content between development, testing, and production environments
  • Sharing Power BI dashboards with colleagues
  • Configuring Power BI app workspaces
  • Configuring refresh schedules and DirectQuery connections with the on-premises data gateway
  • Creating and managing Power BI apps
  • Building email subscriptions into Power BI deployments
  • Publishing Power BI reports to the public internet
  • Enabling the mobile BI experience