Virtual Power BI Foundations Training Course

Our Foundations Training is designed for teams that don’t have any Power BI experience. With this training, you will connect your data, bring it into Power Query, transform that data, and then load it into Power BI Desktop so you can start building out visualizations.

• ​​​Discover the building blocks of Power BI – What is Power BI
• ​​Power BI Platform Breakdown: Power BI Report Server and Power BI Desktop
• ​​Data sourcing and transformations using Power Query (M)
• ​​Tabular Data Modeling – loading/linking your data and understanding relationships
• DAX – Creating Measures and Calculated Columns for key metrics
• ​​Power BI visualization best practices
• ​Understanding CALCULATE and Time Intelligence DAX functions
• ​​Security: role level security, managing security roles, and assigning report/role level security
• ​​Using DAX to build-out measures that formulate the metrics desired
• ​​Introduction to proper report-building process
• ​​Power BI report design best practices
• ​​Power BI Service: Collaboration, Sharing, Creating Apps

Requirements:

All individuals in the training will need to have the following:

• Laptop with Windows 10 or 11 installed.
• Macs or Chrome books won’t work with Power BI development.
• Power BI Desktop Installed (most recent copy preferred).
• This can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store here: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NTXR16HNW1T
• Access to Microsoft Power BI Service (Office 365)

Additional Resources:

City of Boise Training Case Study: https://youtu.be/4XF2-RjRyQM

PBI Training Information:

Collectiv Training Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De2ohswDmsA&t=1s

About Us:

We are Microsoft data platform and Power BI experts who empower C-Suite executives by radically improving data analytics, planning, and AI processes across the enterprise. With passion and experience, Collectiv delivers world-class measurable outcomes via strategy, consulting, advising, and programs. Our success implementing best practice data strategies across many industries has earned us the top-rated Power BI Consulting firm on G2. Empower your enterprise with Collectiv.