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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)

Sharing Power BI dashboards with colleagues

Power BI apps are the recommended content distribution method for large corporate BI deployments, but for small teams and informal collaboration scenarios, sharing dashboards provides a simple alternative. By sharing a dashboard, the recipient obtains read access to the dashboard, the reports supporting its tiles, and immediate visibility to any changes in the dashboard. Additionally, dashboards can be shared with Power BI Pro users external to an organization via security groups and distribution lists, and Power BI Pro users can leverage analyze in Excel as well as the Power BI mobile apps to access the shared data. Moreover, Power BI Free users can consume dashboards shared with them from Power BI Premium capacity.

In this recipe, a Power BI dashboard is shared with a colleague as well as a contact in an external organization. Guidance...