December 26, 2016
Bill Ramos
Back in March of 2015, DB Best published a blog post on how to embed Power BI Power View interactive reports into your blogs and websites. Much has changed in Power BI since then and M...
EXPLORE THE ESSENTIALS OF POWER BI
We will work with you to create a Power BI One Day Workshop to help your organization drive better decision making with the Microsoft Power BI business intelligence and analytics service.
Our solution architects will share their knowledge and customer experiences to help you get the most out of Power BI’s capabilities, best practices, and different deployment scenarios.
The workshop objectives
- If you are a primary Power BI user and you aim to utilize Power BI for excellent decision making, this workshop is for you.
- You will know how to gather, transform, and visualize data with Power BI, and how to incorporate intelligence into your Power BI reports.
- The Power BI One Day Workshop is meant to cover your team’s specific needs.
- DB Best Solution Architects will suggest content based on the customer’s use cases and provide demos that highlight Power BI’s capabilities in the context of these particular use cases.
- After the workshop, your team will get all the workshop materials including the use cases, demos, presentation pdf, etc.
Syllabus
We will work with your team to create a specialized agenda to address your specific needs. Here are examples of topics that we’ve covered for other customers.
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- Ground rules of working with Power BI
- Licensing, security, and Office 365 collaboration
- Power BI capabilities
- Mapping tables and Time Intelligence
- Visualizations and Filtering
- Drilling down through your data
- Modern Data Estate and Governance
- Data refreshes and gateways
- Dashboards and Mobile Alerts
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