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Learn Power BI - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler
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Book Image

Learn Power BI - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Gregory Deckler

Overview of this book

To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This updated second edition of Learn Power BI takes you on a journey of data exploration and discovery, using Microsoft Power BI to ingest, cleanse, and organize data in order to unlock key business insights that can then be shared with others. This newly revised and expanded edition of Learn Power BI covers all of the latest features and interface changes and takes you through the fundamentals of business intelligence projects, how to deploy, adopt, and govern Power BI within your organization, and how to leverage your knowledge in the marketplace and broader ecosystem that is Power BI. As you progress, you will learn how to ingest, cleanse, and transform your data into stunning visualizations, reports, and dashboards that speak to business decision-makers. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be fully prepared to be the data analysis hero of your organization – or even start a new career as a business intelligence professional.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics
4
Section 2:The Desktop
10
Section 3:The Service
15
Section 4:The Future

Introducing the service

The Power BI service, or simply the service, is a web-based SaaS product that is complementary to the Power BI Desktop. The service provides a means by which Power BI users can create new datasets and reports as well as publish, share, and collaborate on data models and reports that are created in Power BI Desktop. The service is built around storing reports, dashboards, workbooks, datasets, and dataflows.

Let's take a brief look at the service and the major capabilities it provides.

Touring the service

Once logged in to the service, the Power BI service interface is somewhat reminiscent of the Power BI Desktop interface, although somewhat simpler.

The Power BI service's user interface is comprised of three main areas, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.1 – A tour of the service

We will now investigate these three areas more closely. Please refer to Figure 8.1 throughout the upcoming sections...