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Extreme DAX

By : Michiel Rozema, Henk Vlootman
Book Image

Extreme DAX

By: Michiel Rozema, Henk Vlootman

Overview of this book

This book helps business analysts generate powerful and sophisticated analyses from their data using DAX and get the most out of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools. Extreme DAX will first teach you the principles of business intelligence, good model design, and how DAX fits into it all. Then, you’ll launch into detailed examples of DAX in real-world business scenarios such as inventory calculations, forecasting, intercompany business, and data security. At each step, senior DAX experts will walk you through the subtleties involved in working with Power BI models and common mistakes to look out for as you build advanced data aggregations. You’ll deepen your understanding of DAX functions, filters, and measures, and how and when they can be used to derive effective insights. You’ll also be provided with PBIX files for each chapter, so that you can follow along and explore in your own time.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part I: Introduction
6
Part II: Business cases
15
Other Books You May Enjoy
16
Index

DAX in Business Intelligence

Without a doubt, information is nowadays one of the most valuable assets of any organization. We all know this as consumers: companies are lining up to get our personal data. Not because any of us are so interesting individually (though we're sure you are a very interesting person!), but the combination of data from many consumers enables companies to get valuable insights to drive their business forward.

This is not only true for commercial companies. Public institutions, hospitals, and universities also benefit from information to better run their core processes. In any case, information is the foundation of progress and innovation.

But getting from data to information to insights can be a tedious process. It involves combining data from different sources, discovering hidden structures and correlations, and considering the context of data. This is why the field of business intelligence, or data analytics, has traditionally been exclusive...