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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

Integrating Power BI with Other Applications

Power BI tools and services including Power BI Desktop, the Power BI web service, and Power BI mobile applications form a modern, robust business intelligence and analytics platform by themselves. Power BI Premium further extends the scalability and deployment options of Power BI solutions, enabling organizations to deliver Power BI content to large groups of users via apps in the Power BI service, embedded within custom applications, the on-premises Power BI Report Server, or some combination of these distribution options.

However, many organizations either already have extensive self-service and corporate BI assets and skills in other tools, such as Excel, Analysis Services (Azure Analysis Services (AAS) or SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)), and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or are interested in utilizing the unique features of these tools as part of their Power BI solutions. As one example, an organization may choose to...