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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 Content from Excel and SSRS

Dashboards in Power BI can consolidate much more than just Power BI report visuals. Microsoft Excel objects—such as pivot tables, charts, and workbook ranges—and SSRS report items can also be pinned as dashboard tiles. This integration with Power BI allows teams to utilize existing reports and skills, and to leverage the unique capabilities of these tools as part of overall BI solutions.

In this recipe, a pivot table and pivot chart from an Excel workbook are integrated into an existing Power BI dashboard. Additionally, an SSRS report item is also pinned to this dashboard. For more advanced integration examples, see Chapter 13, Integrating Power BI with Other Applications.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Complete the first recipe in this chapter, Building a Dashboard.
  2. Install Analyze in Excel from the Power BI service. See Chapter 1, Configuring Power BI Tools, for details...