Since 1988, Blue Novation has designed and delivered exceptionally high standard training solutions to businesses in both the private and public sector. The quality of training we deliver is of paramount importance to us.
Our approach ensures that delegates enjoy their training whilst gaining the additional skills and knowledge to become more productive in the workplace.
Power BI – Introduction
In the basic introduction to Power BI we look at the various data sources that can be used and in particular how to use data in Excel files. This course walks you through some simple scenarios of importing and preparing data, then creating visualisations and filters in order to produce a Power BI report.
Course Topics
• What is Power BI
• How do Power BI reports and Dashboards work
• Introducing Power BI Desktop
• Import data from Excel
• Prepare (transform) the data for Power BI
• Adding a custom column to the data
• Create a simple report
• Add visualisations to a report
• Create a Power BI Account
• Publish a Power BI report
• Create a Dashboard
• Review of a Power BI report with common visualisations and filters
• Import data from Excel
• Create a basic report
• Explore the use of and configurable properties in a report of:
• bar charts
• pie charts
• lists
• filters
• Creating Dashboards
• Pinning visualisations to dashboards
• Using natural language query to interrogate a Dashboard
• Discussion of layout guidelines for a Power BI report
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Course Dates
Classroom: Postponed due to Covid restrictions
Online: Please contact us for details
Course Duration
Classroom: 1 day
Online: Session details coming soon!
Scheduled Course Fee
£250 + VAT
Class Size
Classroom: Maximum of 6 delegates
Online: Maximum of 6 delegates
Location
Classroom: Ipswich or onsite at clients premises
Prerequisites
A reasonable working knowledge of Excel is advantageous.
Training Formats
Scheduled course · private course · tailored · 1 to 1
All formats available classroom based or online (all instructor led)
Manuals
A comprehensive course manual provides support throughout the course. Available in PDF format for Online sessions.
learner testimonial
What subject did you find the most useful? “Everything!”
How will this help in the workplace? “Streamline Reporting”
Overall opinion of the course. “Excellent.”
learner testimonial
What subject did you find the most useful? “The whole subject of BI module!”
How will this help in the workplace? “Flexibility of reporting and analysing sales data”
Overall opinion of the course. “Brilliant.”
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