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Financial Modeling and Reporting with Microsoft Power BI
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Self-service business intelligence provides non-technical users access to data and tools, allowing them to build their own reports and visuals, rather than relying on technical resources to build for them. In many ways, users have had a form of self-service business intelligence through export to Excel with self-service becoming a method to formalize that approach through proper management of data and tools, avoiding the problems that have come with export to Excel.There are varying shades of self-service reporting as the meaning behind the term has become a grey area. At its heart, it's the concept that users of reports are not reliant on central delivery, but can access the data they need, when they need it. There are, however, different levels of reporting that can all be described as self-service.At its most unstructured, nothing is provided centrally, and all reporting is left in the hands of the consumers of the reports. That means no...