Join us for a free, in person, training workshop on Microsoft Power BI.  Microsoft Power BI (business intelligence) is a powerful analytics tool that helps companies of all sizes analyze data and share insights. It is a cloud-based tool that requires no capital expenditure or infrastructure support regardless of the size of a business. Dashboards are at the heart of Power BI. Users can create personalized dashboards, allowing them to monitor their most important data enterprise-wide and from all their business apps.

In this workshop, we will train you on how to Create Power BI Dashboards in just 3 hours. Spend a day with us and bring back the knowledge and hands-on dashboards experience to your business environment.

Workshop Agenda: 

1. What is Power BI?
2. What is a Data Set?
3. Training on report layouts, tools, filters and navigation?
4. Creating your first Dashboard in Power BI

Prerequisites:

1. Bring your own laptop.
2. Download Power BI to your desktop/laptop
3. Download sales data into Excel from your ERP system (we will provide if you forget)

• Invoice #, Amount, Customer, Date are the minimum fields
• Country, City, Sales Rep, Part, Product Types are recommended if available

Deliverable:

At the end of the training session, each person will have created

1. Power BI – Dashboard with graphs and slicers
2. Data set for Quick Insights (Cortana intelligence)
3. Report for Questions and Answers (ad-hoc questions)