Microsoft Power BI Cookbook: Creating Business Intelligence Solutions of Analytical Data Models, Reports, and Dashboards (English Edition)

Brett Powell

Key Features

• From connecting to your data sources to developing and deploying immersive, mobile-ready dashboards and visualizations, this book covers it all
• Over 90 hands-on, technical recipes, tips, and use cases from across the Power BI platform including the Power BI Service and Mobile Applications
• Proven development techniques and guidance for implementing custom solutions with DAX and M languages

Book Description

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data.

This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence.

This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.

What you will learn

• Cleanse, stage, and integrate your data sources with Power BI
• Abstract data complexities and provide users with intuitive, self-service BI capabilities
• Build business logic and analysis into your solutions via the DAX programming language and dynamic, dashboard-ready calculations
• Take advantage of the analytics and predictive capabilities of Power BI
• Make your solutions more dynamic and user specific and/or defined including use cases of parameters, functions, and row level security
• Understand the differences and implications of DirectQuery, Live Connections, and Import-Mode Power BI datasets and how to deploy content to the Power BI Service and schedule refreshes
• Integrate other Microsoft data tools such as Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services into your Power BI solution

About the Author

Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the SQL Server 2008R2 PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010. He has contributed to the design and development of Microsoft and Power BI solutions of diverse scale and complexity across the retail, manufacturing, financial, and services industries. Brett regularly blogs and shares technical papers regarding the latest MSBI and Power BI features and development techniques and patterns at Insight Quest. He is also an organizer of the Boston BI User Group.

Table of Contents

1. Configuring Your Power BI Development Tools
2. Accessing and Retrieving Data
3. Building a Power BI Data Model
4. Authoring Power BI Reports
5. Creating Power BI Dashboards
6. Getting Serious with Date Intelligence
7. Parameterizing Your Power BI Solutions
8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI
9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals
10. Developing Solutions for System Monitoring and Administration
11. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions
12. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content
13. Integrating Power BI with other Applications

Year:

2020

Publisher:

Packt Publishing

Language:

english

Pages:

802 / 786

ISBN 10:

1788290143

ISBN 13:

9781788290142

File:

PDF, 21.04 MB

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