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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition. Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects. The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content

Thus far, much of this book has focused on the individual BI professional working with Power BI to create data models, reports, dashboards, and other BI and system assets. However, BI is all about providing insights and information to the business. Thus, for any BI project to be successful, the data and insights created must be shared and distributed throughout the organization.

This chapter contains detailed examples and considerations for deploying and distributing Power BI content via the Power BI service and Power BI mobile application. This includes the creation and configuration of app workspaces and apps, procuring and assigning Power BI premium capacities, configuring data sources and refresh schedules, and deriving greater value from the Power BI mobile application. Additionally, topics such as staging deployments across development and production environments, as well as multi-node premium capacity deployments, are covered...