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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Mastering Microsoft Power BI, Second Edition, provides an advanced understanding of Power BI to get the most out of your data and maximize business intelligence. This updated edition walks through each essential phase and component of Power BI, and explores the latest, most impactful Power BI features. Using best practices and working code examples, you will connect to data sources, shape and enhance source data, and develop analytical data models. You will also learn how to apply custom visuals, implement new DAX commands and paginated SSRS-style reports, manage application workspaces and metadata, and understand how content can be staged and securely distributed via Power BI apps. Furthermore, you will explore top report and interactive dashboard design practices using features such as bookmarks and the Power KPI visual, alongside the latest capabilities of Power BI mobile applications and self-service BI techniques. Additionally, important management and administration topics are covered, including application lifecycle management via Power BI pipelines, the on-premises data gateway, and Power BI Premium capacity. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be confident in creating sustainable and impactful charts, tables, reports, and dashboards with any kind of data using Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Summary

This chapter introduced paginated reports for Power BI both within the Power BI service and on-premises only via the PBRS. While the support of paginated reports in the Power BI service has greatly reduced the need for PBRS in many organizations, there are still use cases where a fully on-premises solution for reporting is required.

Key topics covered in this chapter were migrating Report Description Language (RDL) files to the Power BI service, the feature differences between PBRS and the Power BI service, and the overall planning, scaling, and upgrading of PBRS.

In the next chapter, we focus on the distribution of published content to end users. This includes the delivery and management of packages of related Power BI content to large groups of users via Power BI Apps as well as other content delivery capabilities of the Power BI service such as data-driven alerts and scheduled email subscriptions.

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