Migrating from Power Pivot for Excel Data to Power BI
As Power BI has become more mature as a product and as business users become more comfortable with the platform, it is often beneficial to migrate data models (formerly Power Pivot) and M queries from Excel to Power BI. From a data management and governance standpoint, it is preferable to consolidate data models to either Power BI and/or Analysis Services models and to limit Excel's role to ad hoc analysis such as pivot tables connected to datasets in the Power BI service via Analyze in Excel.
In this brief recipe a data model and its source M queries contained in an Excel workbook are migrated to a Power BI dataset via the Import Excel Workbook to Power BI Desktop migration feature. Additional details on the workbook content imported and other options and considerations for Excel-to-Power BI migrations are included in the How it works... and There's more... sections.
Getting ready
Analyze the Excel workbook...