Beginning Power BI for Business Users

Unlock the astonishing capabilities of Microsoft Power BI for your business

In Beginning Power BI for Business Users: Learning to Turn Data into Insights, veteran business intelligence and data professional Paul Fuller delivers a uniquely practical take on using the latest version of Microsoft Power BI to analyze, understand, report, and act on the data available to your organization. You’ll explore Power BI’s huge and robust feature set and learn how to ingest and model data, how to conduct orchestration and visualization, and how to use the DAX language to extract even more utility from Microsoft’s powerful program.

Starting from general principles appropriate for readers without experience in reporting or data analytics tools, the author walks you through every relevant Power BI feature you need to manipulate common, publicly available data sources, including Excel files and relational databases. The book includes working and tested sample code you can use to work through the helpful examples provided within.

A can’t-miss resource for business analysts and Excel power users reaching the limits of that program’s capabilities, Beginning Power BI for Business Users is the straightforward, hands-on guide to Power BI you’ve been waiting for.