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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

Enabling the Mobile Experience

Power BI mobile apps have been designed to align closely with the user experience and feature set available in the Power BI service. This provides a simple, familiar navigation experience for users and allows BI and IT teams to leverage existing Power BI assets and knowledge to enhance the mobile experience in their organization.

This recipe contains two processes to take advantage of Power BI's mobile capabilities. The first process helps identify "quick win" opportunities that require limited BI/IT investment to better utilize basic Power BI mobile features. The second process identifies somewhat less common yet powerful and emerging use cases for Power BI mobile applications.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Identify the most highly used dashboards and reports by opening the Power BI admin portal (gear icon: Admin portal) and select the Usage metrics menu item.
  2. Decide which dashboards...