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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)

Preparing a content creation and collaboration environment in Power BI

Power BI collaboration environments can take many forms ranging from a small group of Power BI Pro users creating and sharing content with each other in a single app workspace to large scale corporate BI scenarios characterized by many read-only users accessing Power BI premium capacity resources via Power BI apps. Given the cost advantages of the capacity-based pricing model Power BI Premium provides, as well as the enhanced performance and scalability features it delivers, it's important to properly provision and manage these resources.

This recipe provides two processes fundamental to the overall purpose of this chapter: deploying and distributing Power BI content. The first process highlights several critical questions and issues in planning and managing a Power BI deployment. The second process details...