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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Second Edition

By : Devin Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht, Erin Ostrowsky
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Second Edition

By: Devin Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht, Erin Ostrowsky

Overview of this book

This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest enhancements to Power BI. It includes a new chapter dedicated to dataflow, and covers all the essential concepts such as installation, designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to help you and your organization make better business decisions. You’ll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using Power BI Query Editor. You’ll then find out how you can design your data model to navigate and explore relationships within it and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is a key element in this book, and you’ll get to grips rapidly with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. In addition, you will acquire the skills to build your own dataflows, understand the Common Data Model, and automate data flow refreshes to eradicate data cleansing inefficiency. This guide will help you understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented. By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll have a better understanding of how to get the most out of Power BI to perform effective business intelligence.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server

Throughout this book, we've focused on building reports that will ultimately be deployed to the web through the Power BI service or shown in the mobile application. In this chapter, we'll show you how to deploy reports to Power BI Report Server, which is likely being hosted on-premises at your company. For many companies, this is a must-have, since cloud deployments are often not allowed with their type of data or industry.

Power BI Report Server is an on-premises version of the Power BI service that gives you a subset of the features of the full service. Unlike the full service, which is sometimes daily updated with new features, the Power BI Service is updated every few months. There is also an additional Power BI desktop specially made for the server.

Make sure you fully explore the features of the server to ensure it has the critical features that you love. For example, you might find that a connector...