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Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory ETL techniques to load and transform data from various sources, both on-premises and on cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789137620
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reporting on the Modern Data Warehouse

There are a lot of tools available these days when it comes to reporting. In this book, we'll use Power BI for several reasons:

  • It has a free version. We'll talk about the different versions later in this chapter.
  • It can connect to a wide variety of data sources.
  • There are many transformations and merges that can be applied to the data sources from it.
  • It is easy to use and has a lot of visualizations available.

Power BI is not that new in the reporting world; it has been around for almost 5 years now. It has evolved since then and continues to evolve. Microsoft releases an update to Power BI monthly.

From a modern data warehouse perspective, we need a reporting tool that is flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of users, from beginners or casual users to power users. As we will see later in this chapter, Power BI can...

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