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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)

Enabling the mobile BI experience

The Power BI mobile apps have been designed to align closely with the user experience and feature set available in the Power BI Service. This provides a simple, familiar navigation experience for users and allows BI and IT teams to leverage existing Power BI assets and knowledge to enhance the mobile experience in their organization. In relatively new or less mature Power BI deployments, core functionalities such as mobile optimized reports and dashboards, data driven alerts, and annotate and share can deliver significant value. For more advanced and specific use cases, conversational BI with Q & A, interactive meetings with the Power BI Windows 10 universal app, geo-filtering, and more, provide mobile solutions to mobile business scenarios.

This recipe contains two processes to take advantage of Power BI's mobile capabilities. The first...