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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide The ultimate beginner's guide to data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613498
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Devin Knight Devin Knight
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Bradley Schacht Bradley Schacht
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Erin Ostrowsky Erin Ostrowsky
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gaining Data Literacy with Power BI FREE CHAPTER 2. Connecting to Data 3. Data Transformation Strategies 4. Building the Data Model 5. Leveraging DAX 6. Visualizing Data 7. Digital Storytelling with Power BI 8. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service 9. Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows 10. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index

Getting started

Power BI is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering in the Azure cloud and, as such, the Microsoft product team follows a strategy of cloud first as they develop and add new features to the product. Power BI is also one of five members of Microsoft’s Power Platform:

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Figure 2.1: Microsoft’s Power Platform suite of tools

Each of the tools within the Power Platform solves distinctly different problems, but what they have in common is who their core user audience is intended to be. The Power Platform and all the tools included within it are designed and built so business users can solve and design solutions on their own rather than relying solely on their IT department. All five tools within the Power Platform leverage Microsoft’s cloud architecture and allow for seamless integration between the different tools. Leveraging the features of each Power Platform tool (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents...

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