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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

Explaining the example scenario

The following chapters of this book primarily focus on a single, real-world scenario. This section introduces the scenario and implements the planning process introduced in this chapter for the example scenario.

Background

The organization at the heart of this scenario is a regional professional services firm with offices located in Charlotte, Nashville, and Cleveland providing professional services related to technology, accounting, and management consulting. This firm recently conducted a yearly employee survey that highlighted a strong employee demand for increased flexibility regarding Personal Time Off (PTO). As a result, human resources have decided to implement unlimited PTO. While time off still needs to be approved, employees no longer have a set amount of days of PTO per year. This is an enormous benefit to employees but, in order to stay profitable, it is now imperative that the organization is able to closely track and report on utilization...