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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

Preface

Microsoft Power BI is a leading business intelligence and analytics platform that supports both self-service data visualization and exploration as well as enterprise BI deployments. Power BI consists of cloud services, mobile applications, a data modeling and report authoring application, and other utilities, including the on-premises data gateway. Additionally, organizations can deploy Power BI reports on-premises via the Power BI Report Server and scale their deployments with Power BI Premium capacity.

This revised and expanded edition provides an end-to-end analysis of the latest Power BI tools and features, from planning a Power BI project to distributing Power BI apps to large groups of users. You’ll be familiarized with all the fundamental concepts and see how Power BI datasets, reports, and dashboards can be designed to deliver insights and rich, interactive experiences. You’ll also become knowledgeable about management and administration topics such as the allocation of Power BI Premium capacities, Azure Active Directory security groups, conditional access policies, and staged deployments of Power BI content. This book will encourage you to take advantage of these powerful features and follow thoughtful, consistent practices in deploying Power BI for your organization.