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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

Mastering Microsoft Power BI - Second Edition

By : Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

Mastering Microsoft Power BI

4.6 (56)
By: Greg 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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Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution

This chapter walks through all facets of Power BI apps as the primary method for distributing content to groups of users. Given the current one-to-one relationship between apps and workspaces, you are advised to review Chapter 10, Managing Application Workspaces and Power BI Content, prior to this chapter.

Additional content distribution and consumption methods including email subscriptions, SharePoint Online embedding, data-driven alerts, and Analyze in Excel are also described in this chapter. The distribution methods available in Power BI Report Server and the technical details of integrating Power BI content into custom applications are outside the scope of this chapter.

In this chapter, we will review the following topics:

  • Content distribution methods
  • Power BI apps
  • Sharing content
  • Embedding
  • Data alerts
  • Email subscriptions
  • Analyze in Excel
  • Self-service BI workspaces
  • ...
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