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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)

Configuring Power BI app workspaces

App workspaces are shared workspaces in the Power BI Service for Power BI Pro users to develop content. The datasets, reports, and dashboards contained within App Workspaces can be published as a Power BI app for distribution to groups of users. Additionally, App Workspaces can be assigned to Power BI Premium capacities of dedicated hardware to enable all users, regardless of license, to consume the published app and to provide consistent performance and greater scalability. Furthermore, App Workspaces retain a one-to-one mapping to published apps, enabling members and administrators of App Workspaces to stage and test iterations prior to publishing updates to apps.

In this recipe, an App Workspace is created and configured for Power BI Premium capacity. Within the recipe and in the supporting sections, all primary considerations are identified...