Hands-On Business Intelligence with Power BI : A beginner's guide to perform self-service data analytics for powerful business intelligent solutions

Learn the tips and tricks of creating analytical reports and dashboards for your business in no time. About This Book* Implement simple-to-intermediate Power BI offerings to create effective dashboards*Use a different set of datasets to build powerful analytical models using the example-based approach*Learn to build, publish and share dashboards and reports among peersWho This Book Is ForThis book is for IT managers, data analysts and BI users who are new to using Power BI for business intelligence, This is also for someone who wants to move from other BI tools to Power BI for creating simple yet powerful dashboards.

No prior experience of Power BI required. What You Will Learn* Publish reports and model your data in the Power BI cloud service*Learn how to share a Power BI dashboard to collaborate with others*Understand key concepts for relating data in order to link tables together properly*Learn how to use Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to perform calculations*Create a range of stunning visuals to display your data, including charts, maps, tree views, and tables*Use natural language in the Q&A feature to quickly generate visuals for actionable insightIn DetailPower BI is Microsoft's powerful and latest business intelligence (BI) cum data visualization tool.

It enables you to quickly develop stunning interactive dashboards and helps you monitor your business on every device.

Through this book, you will learn how to use Power BI's analytics tools to transform dull data into dazzling dashboards, reports and create visualizations to form stories of key business insights. The first section of the book will quickly introduce you to the key components of the Power BI services and Desktop.

The second section follows a step by step approach on how to use your data, transform it into models, build reports in Power BI Desktop, and publish them to the cloud service.

The third section of the book will uncover advanced reporting, visualization and dashboarding techniques to create stunning personalized dashboards.

By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the business intelligence skills to get the meaningful answers you need to make informed decisions about your business. Your skills can be used across many industries, including Marketing to monitor the effectiveness of campaigns, Finance to oversee financial performance, and Sales to manage quotas against forecasts.