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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 with Power Automate and Power Apps

Power BI's tools and services are built to derive meaning and insights from data as well as making those insights accessible to others. While these are both essential functions, Power BI itself is not intended to take action or execute a business decision on the data it analyzes and visualizes. Additionally, information workers regularly interface with many applications or services and thus, to remain productive, there is a need to automate workflows and embed logic between Power BI and these applications in order to streamline business processes. Power Apps and Power Automate, both Microsoft 365 applications and part of the Business Application Platform along with Power BI, serve to address these needs by enabling business users to create custom business applications and workflow processes.

In this recipe a Power Automate workflow is created to support a streaming dataset in the Power BI service. Specifically, the Power Automate...