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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

Working with goals

Goals and scorecards are relatively new types of objects in the Power BI service that allow users to track key metrics against business objectives. Goals provide something for teams to measure their progress toward achieving business objectives against, with the ability to share updates and analyze detailed data when necessary. Goals can be organized into scorecards that incorporate content from multiple workspaces in order to provide a single window into the health of an organization.

Goals require a Power BI Premium capacity or a Premium Per User (PPU) license. Let's explore how you create and use goals and scorecards in the service.

Creating scorecards and goals

To create a new scorecard, do the following:

  1. Navigate to a Premium workspace (designated with a diamond icon).
  2. Click Goals in the Navigation pane.
  3. Click the New scorecard button in the upper right of the canvas. This displays the Create scorecard dialog, as shown in the following...