Introducing Microsoft Power BI
by Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
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This book is targeted to a variety of readers. There are information workers and people who are totally new to the BI world. For those readers, the book acts as a simple introduction to the concepts that are the foundation of BI. Yet, another category of we wanted to target is that of IT professionals and database administrators who might need to drive the decisions of the company in adopting Power BI, because their users are asking for it. If this is you, this book acts as both a simple introduction to the basic concepts, to help you understand why users are so interested in Power BI, and as an overview of the capabilities and tools available in Power BI, so that you can make educated choices in adopting it. Power BI is not just a tool: it is an ecosystem that can integrate existing corporate BI with Self-Service BI. The last chapter of the book gives you an overview of these capabilities. 
Book Description
Introducing Microsoft Power BI enables you to evaluate when and how to use Power BI. Get inspired to improve business processes in your company by leveraging the available analytical and collaborative features of this environment.This book is targeted to a variety of readers. There are information workers and people who are totally new to the BI world. For those readers, the book acts as a simple introduction to the concepts that are the foundation of BI. Yet, another category of we wanted to target is that of IT professionals and database administrators who might need to drive the decisions of the company in adopting Power BI, because their users are asking for it. If this is you, this book acts as both a simple introduction to the basic concepts, to help you understand why users are so interested in Power BI, and as an overview of the capabilities and tools available in Power BI, so that you can make educated choices in adopting it. Power BI is not just a tool: it is an ecosystem that can integrate existing corporate BI with Self-Service BI. The last chapter of the book gives you an overview of these capabilities.
This open book is licensed under a Microsoft Open License. You can download Introducing Microsoft Power BI ebook for free in PDF format (13.0 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introducing Power BI
Chapter 2
Sharing the dashboard
Chapter 3
Understanding data refresh
Chapter 4
Using Power BI Desktop
Chapter 5
Getting data from services and content packs
Chapter 6
Building a data model
Chapter 7
Improving Power BI reports
Chapter 8
Using Microsoft Power BI in your company
Book Details
Title
Introducing Microsoft Power BI
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Microsoft Press
Published
2016
Pages
189
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781509302284
ISBN10 Digital
150930228X
PDF Size
13.0 MB
License
Microsoft Open
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