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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Cookbook Gain expertise in Power BI with over 90 hands-on recipes, tips, and use cases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813044
Length 656 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring Power BI Tools 2. Accessing and Retrieving Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Power BI Data Model 4. Authoring Power BI Reports 5. Working in the Service 6. Getting Serious with Date Intelligence 7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions 8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI 9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals 10. Administering and Monitoring Power BI 11. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions 12. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content 13. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications 14. Other Book You May Enjoy
15. Index

Integrating SSRS and Excel

Power BI Desktop is the primary report authoring tool for content published to the Power BI service as well as for Power BI report visuals embedded in custom applications. However, for many organizations a significant portion of existing or legacy reporting workloads built with SSRS and Excel must be maintained. In many cases, existing SSRS and Excel reports can be converted to modern Power BI reports and dashboards but Power BI is not intended as a full replacement for all the features and use cases for these other tools. In addition to supporting paginated reports (aka SSRS reports) via Power BI Premium and data refresh of Excel reports built against Power BI datasets, the Power BI service offers further methods of integrating content from Excel and SSRS into Power BI. Additionally, given the common database engine and DAX language of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and Analysis Services, BI teams can take full control of reports rendered in SSRS and...

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