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If you're having a small business, then Power BI is the best option for you. It is quite cheaper and provide all the necessary features to fulfill the small and medium business needs. On the other hand, if your business is large enough then you should about for Tableau.
Power BI with the onset of data analytics and visualization in enterprises, the professionals with these skills has way better prospects than their peers. In the sphere of business intelligence and data visualization, Power BI lead the way.
PowerBI is one of the best tools to learn in your career irrespective to your background field of commerce or science.
And talking about its scope, if you are willing to go in any micromanagement or Project management post in the future, you need some basic data analytics tools to learn, as to make any reports and presentations, you have to use some Business intelligence tools and PowerBI is one of the easiest tools to learn and apply in your day to day usage!
Even as a fresher, you can get a job in Power BI domain. Power BI with the onset of data analytics and visualization in enterprises, the professionals with these skills has way better prospects than their peers. In the sphere of business intelligence and data visualization, Power BI lead the way.
We are happy and proud to say that we have strong relationship with over 700+ small, mid-sized and MNCs. Many of these companies have openings for Power BI. Moreover, we have a very active placement cell that provides 100% placement assistance to our students. The cell also contributes by training students in mock interviews and discussions even after the course completion.
Well, users can use Power BI for free. However, the best of Power BI can be availed with the Power BI Pro subscription account. This can be purchased from the Microsoft Store. The subscription account basically offers an enhanced version of several features that are available with the Power BI free account. Most business users use a subscribed account as it offers more data refreshes per day and other features as compared to the free version.
- Below are the minimum Prerequisite For Power BI.
- Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2, or later
- .NET 4.5
- Internet Explorer 9 or later.
- Memory (RAM): At least 1 GB available, 1.5 GB or more recommended.
- Display: At least 1440x900 or 1600x900 (16:9) recommended. Lower resolutions such as 1024x768 or 1280x800 are not recommended, as certain controls (such as closing the startup screen) display beyond those resolutions.
- Windows Display settings: If your display settings are set to change the size of text, apps, and other items to more than 100%, you may not be able to see certain dialogs that must be closed or responded to in order to proceed using Power BI Desktop. If you encounter this issue, check your Display settings by going to Settings > System > Display in Windows, and use the slider to return display settings to 100%.
Power BI is a set of tools that allows non-technical folks to perform the kinds of analytics previously reserved for technical specialists or IT departments. Power BI changes that. Any analyst can connect to any data source and quickly summarize findings into a simple report, no programming required.
It offers Data modelling capabilities including data preparation, data discovery and interactive dashboards. As such there is no prior Technical Knowledge required to learn Power BI. However if you have an experience with fundamental understanding of Microsoft Excel and formulas will be an advantage.
Our course ware is designed to give a hands-on approach to the students in Power BI. The course is made up of theoretical classes that teach the basics of each module followed by high-intensity practical sessions reflecting the current challenges and needs of the industry that will demand the students’ time and commitment.
Yes It is worth , Future will be bright. As a business intelligence tool, Power BI offers the team an excellent visual analytics capabilities. With the right data and platform, it can be an excellent fit for in your efforts to use data to boost efficiency and productivity within an organization.
Power BI is very user friendly and free to play with. I also recommend learning some database stuff. ... Tableau offers a cheaper option to start (10 a month for users, 70 a month for creators). All I can really recommend is if you start showing off the power of these tools, people are going to want them deployed quickly.
Power BI Typically, such training will run for just about two to three days. In my case, I took a 3-day training since I really want to master the basics and advanced features of the tool.
Power BI is highly compressed and performant.
Power BI has a brand new visualisation engine.
Power BI also has open source visualisations.
Power BI is built for users familiar with Excel, but it’s not Excel.
The future of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence: Power BI
- Industry analyst Gartner’s most recent report on Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms place Microsoft as a Leader in their Magic Quadrant. They have been a Leader for nine consecutive years, but for the first time they are considered to have the most Completeness Of Vision. Impressive stuff.
- Power BI is a key element of their vision for the future. As the world slowly moves away from on-premises, and into the cloud, Power BI, Microsoft hope, will become an important component of how an organisation will develop, deploy and consume Business Intelligence reporting in the future.
- This is all well and good, but we suspect the reality for many organisations is that the idea of Power BI is simply a ‘pie-in-the-sky’ idea of where we may or may not be in the future. When we read that with Power BI we can Craft Data Stories, our eyes glaze over and we hunt out cynical images to email to our colleagues to get a cheap giggle.
- When Power BI was launched we did actually email a picture of a bottle of snake oil to our colleagues, commenting on the grand claims that Power BI seemed to be making for itself, that users would simply be able to use their data to Tell Your Story.
- This wasn’t a dig at Microsoft, but more a British reaction to hyperbole based on our current understanding of the state of play at that time. However, we now know a little more than we did then, and Power BI’s functionality has been constantly evolving, so we think it’s time to atone for our snake oil jibe.
Well Organised Data
We still maintain that without well organised data available to you, it’s going to be very difficult to generate any kind of meaningful reporting.
The Data Model
- The magic data can use to create their stunning Power BI reports would probably come from a Tabular Data Model hosted in a SQL Server Analysis Services installation.
- The Tabular Data Model is an in-memory version of the pre-prepared reporting data (in the data warehouse) that allows users to navigate and explore the data themselves.
- Self-Service BI. Tables, graphs, charts and other data visualisations representing that data are all then available to the users via Pivot Tables, Power BI dashboards and reports, or Reporting Services reports.
This is the important point:
The Tabular Data Model is essentially the same as a Power Pivot Data Model in Excel. It is the same as a Power BI Data Model in the cloud.
All three use the same Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to extract further value from the raw data. DAX can give you running cumulative totals for example. If you have a Date table, you can slice your data up by your organisation’s Financial Quarters or perhaps by Semesters or Terms. You can have Year On Year analysis, rolling changes by Previous Period, etc.
If you can load up your data up into an Excel Power Pivot Data Model, and have your Pivot Tables work just as you’d like, you’re basically there. (You will need Well Organised Data for this to be the case).
- Mocking up a Data Model in Excel is a great idea.
- From there you can:
- Export it into SQL Server Analysis Services. It becomes a Tabular Data model, and so can be formalised into a more managed environment. All your organisation’s users can access the model via Reporting Services or Power BI.
Export it up into Power BI. A new Power BI Data Model will be created for you.
- Power BI dashboards and reports created against that data model can be shared with anybody, including people without an Active Directory entry.
- Power BI Data Models can be ‘Analysed in Excel’. So once you export your model, other Excel users can pull it back down from the cloud to perform their own separate analysis of the data.
- Of course you can also create Power BI Data Models directly with the Power BI Desktop application, and Tabular Data Models directly with Visual Studio.
The ETL process
So what do we mean by ‘Well Organised Data’?
- There are a few elements to this, and most of what is traditionally achieved in a SQL Server’s ETL process can be achieved in Power BI and Excel through the use of Power Query.
- Power Query is like a Macro on steroids. Each query consists of a series of steps. When a query is run or refreshed, the same steps are repeated each time.
With Power Query you can:
- Connect to a whole raft of different data sources
- Pull in all your data, transforming it in many ways, like:
- Column renaming and exclusion
- Pivot/Un-pivot
- Change data types
- Fix errors
- Populate missing values
- Combine query results
- Split datasets
- Manipulate to your hearts content
- Load that processed data into the Data Model
What are we achieving here? What is Well Organised Data?
- Consolidated data sources – If you have a Customer’s data in more than one place, bring it all together in Power Query.
- One version of the truth, Clean Data, Master Data – The Customer may have a different Id in each system. The name may have been recorded slightly differently. The sales area they live in may be referred to with a different code in each system. Tidy all the discrepancies up in Power Query.
- Data organised into a reporting data structure – The main data set(s) you want to report on, the data you want the numbers about, are prepared in Power Query. The data you want to use to slice up the reportable data, the lookup data sets, are ideally split out and prepared with Power Query here too.
Finally, you define the relationships between the prepared data sets in your Data Model, create any extra DAX calculations that you’d like, and you should be in a good position to start thinking about what kind of reports and dashboards would be most value for your organisation.
Phew! Amazingly this is only scratching the surface. Business Intelligence is a critical function to get right. We can’t underemphasise that – it should be the life-blood for decision making.