What is Power BI: A Must-Have Skill For Analysts & Decision Makers

What is Power BI: Intro to the Most Powerful Visualization Tool from Microsoft

The world runs with Technology but ruled by Data. Learning to process, manage, analyze and present data can lead to a flourishing Career Path.

Becoming a Data Analyst is the new cool. Data analysis as a career path has a bright future and a variety of options become available to keep moving ahead in your career.

The Data Analyst career path starts from grabbing the right Skills. While it needs a basic knowledge of SQL for querying Data and Python fundamentals, it a very much mandatory to upgrade yourself with the Key Skills like Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI.

We all have heard of SQL, Python and Microsoft Excel, but you may not be familiar with Microsoft Power BI.

Let’s find out What Power BI is, and How you can benefit from learning & using Power BI.

Why Microsoft PowerBI is Essential For Data Analysis?

Power BI is an intelligent software that is highly equipped to Analyze data and gain Insights quickly, without any fuss.

You can visualize data and create personalized reports & dashboards with KPIs that matter in your Business.

It is very popular among Data analysts because of the Speed, Accuracy, Consistency, and Security. You can set the report to refresh automatically, and inform the key stakeholders to view it on their i-Pads and Mobile phones.

The reports and insights can be collaborated effectively across all the different Software’s like Excel, SalesForce, SharePoint, SAP, Oracle Database, and even Microsoft Teams. This allows the whole team to get involved in Data Driven decision making.

Extensive Connections & Flexibility in Power BI

Microsoft Power BI has a growing Library of 100+ connectors that comes for Free and connects it to various Cloud based platforms like SQL, Salesforce and SharePoint.

In Power BI Desktop, users can:

What Power BI Can Do: Benefits of Microsoft Power BI
What Power BI Can Do: Benefits of Microsoft Power BI
  • Connect to data
  • Transform and model the data
  • Create charts and graphs
  • Create reports and dashboards that are collections of visuals
  • Share reports with others using the Power BI service

What’s covered in Power BI Training?

This PowerBI MasterClass teaches the skills a business analyst needs to know in order to successfully use Power BI, Write DAX Measures and Use Power Query to Clean and Load data.

The course starts out first by highlighting the key Advanced Excel functionality useful for data analysis, and then moves to Power BI tools. We cover Microsoft Power Query, Power Pivot & Power BI – all built into the new Power BI Desktop Application.

This Practical, Hands-on workshop covers:

  1. Importing and creating relationships between tables of data.
  2. Understanding the optimal data structure to use in PowerBI.
  3. Writing basic Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX) formulas to extract business insights.
  4. Then writing more advanced DAX formulas that use the power of DAX to extract additional business insights from the data that are not immediately obvious (yet are inherently available).
  5. An introduction and overview of Power Query, how to use the tool to build data extraction and cleaning scripts, and why it is so great.
  6. Helping Excel professionals move from being a normal user in Excel to being a Power BI analyst, covering the differences between the tools and how to start using Power BI Dashboards effectively.

You Can Learn Power BI in a Classroom Setting

Unlike the other Basic computing software’s, Power BI should be learnt and mastered through a proper Training or a Master Class to make you understand the Power BI suite of products available from Microsoft, and be a Power Ninja in analyzing, visualizing & understanding Business Intelligence Reporting.

You should attend a Focused, instructor-led power packed program that make you

Focused Instructor Led Power BI Course in Singapore
Focused Instructor Led Power BI Course in Singapore
  1. Understand Power Query & DAX, and how to apply it to your job.
  2. Achieve better and faster results than with existing Microsoft tools.
  3. Produce valuable KPI metrics for your business that never existed before.
  4. Learn best tips & tricks to solve complex problems & create stunning work.

Where can I Attend Power BI Course in Singapore?

Intellisoft Systems offers you an intensive Power BI Training in Singapore for 2 days.

Our expert approach in this classroom training course makes it accessible to become an Excel Pro.

At the end of the 2 days, you will be well on you way to becoming a Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query Ninja!

What are the Pre-Requisites to Learning Power Query, Power Pivot & Power BI

You can easily learn Power BI f you have Basic knowledge of Excel, and can write simple formulas like SUM, IF, Nested IF, and:

Note: Anyone with a Database, BI, Programming, or similar experience are quite qualified to take this course, even if lacking in Excel experience.

Thousands of people like you have attended our training & started analyzing data, in Sales, Customer Service, Finance, Logistics, HR, Business & other functions in no time.

Gain Valuable Insights by Visualizing Data Quickly!

Whether you work in Banking, Marine & Offshore, Telecom, Networking, IT, Manufacturing, Services, Government or Healthcare, you must tap on the Best and Most Useful software for Data Analysis & Business Intelligence – POWER BI.

Go Beyond Excel Pivot Tables, Learn Power BI now!

Where: Intellisoft Systems, Singapore

You can Register Online or contact us to block seats for you while you get internal approvals.

Companies Can Claim SDF Funding for sponsoring their SG/PR staff. Individual Singaporean can use their SkillsFuture Funds to offset the course fees.

Why wait? Join Intellisoft now! Please call or Email me to reserve your spot on this Power Pivot and Power BI for Excel Training Program.

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Power BI Tip #6: Fixing The Vertical Axis in Power BI Visualisations

Learn to Find The Y-Axis in Power BI at Intellisoft Singapore

Power BI Visualizations are amazing.

The charts and dashboard created in Power BI make it easy for end-users to slice and dice it, visualize the data in any way.

While this is great, some care is needed on the part of the Power BI Dashboard Designers, to make sure that the data is understood in the correct way, and does not lead to any confusion or miscommunication due to the lack of presentation oversight.

Take control of Power BI Charts by manually configuring the Power BI visualizations, and gain more power.

Automatic scaling can mislead people into assuming that the data is all good, and may not yield clear comparison.

In Power BI Charts & Reports, the Vertical axis scales automatically, based on the current slicers, current data and filtered context.

To get more control over the axis, watch this important video tutorial on Power BI, and learn to fix the Y-axis to your advantage.

Tutorial Presented by

Vinai Prakash, Founder & Master Trainer at Intellisoft Systems, Singapore.

For more tips on Power BI, head over to our YouTube Channel, and subscribe to it, to be notified of latest videos and tutorials.

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Intellisoft Systems conducts PowerBI training in Singapore each month. Do attend our hands-on practical training to learn Power BI from the beginning, and be able to analyze and visualize data easily with Microsoft tools.

Visit PowerBI Training in Singapore or email to training@intellisoft.com.sg for a course brochure.

Written & Presented by: Vinai Prakash, PMP, ACTA, ITIL, GAP, MBA

Vinai conducts the Microsoft Power BI training in Singapore. His Power BI courses are extremely popular, fun and easy to learn for beginners and experienced professionals alike.

Join Vinai in his next Power BI training course at Intellisoft. Hundreds of Power BI beginners, power analysts and super users have attended the training and benefited. You could be the next superhero with Power BI training!

Power BI Tip#4: Enter Data Into Power BI Quickly [Video]

Learn to Enter Data in Power BI Fast with Intellisoft Singapore

Even though Power BI makes it extremely easy to load data from Excel and hundreds of other sources, clean it, and process it in any way, there are times when I wanted to do some testing, and bring in some test data.

I didn’t want to create Excel files and store them. I only wanted a simple way to bring in the data into Power BI.

Finally, I saw that Microsoft Power BI has actually thought about such a need, and there is a prominent button called Enter Data right on the Home screen.

I tested it out, and to my amazement, it worked perfectly. So I have been using it heavily in my work as a Power BI consultant, and architect of Power BI dashboards for our clients. Most importantly, this is one feature that our participants really loved in our Power BI classroom training.

So I recorded a short tutorial on how to use this nifty Enter Data feature of Power BI for your viewing pleasure, and for you to begin using it in your work.

Hope you found this tip useful.

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For tips on loading data from the result set of another query, you can use the Reference feature of Power Query

Power BI shows only rows where data is found. If you want to see all rows, you’ve got to see this tip on Showing Rows With No Matching Rows.

Learn Power BI From Practicing Professionals in Singapore

Intellisoft Systems conducts PowerBI training in Singapore each month. Do attend our hands-on practical training to learn Power BI from the beginning, and be able to analyze and visualize data easily with Microsoft tools.

Visit PowerBI Training in Singapore or email to training@intellisoft.com.sg for a course brochure.

Written & Presented by: Vinai Prakash,
Founder & Master Trainer, Intellisoft Systems

Vinai conducts the Microsoft Power BI training in Singapore. His Power BI courses are extremely popular, fun and easy to learn for beginners and experienced professionals alike.

Join Vinai in his next Power BI training course at Intellisoft. You won’t regret it!

Power BI Tip #3: Quick Formatting of Power BI Visuals

Learn to Format Visuals in Power BI at Intellisoft Singapore

The default fonts in Power BI are quite small, and there is no global setting to set the font sizes in Power BI.

For every new visual you create in the Power BI dashboard, you need to change the sizes manually. This is quite painful and frustrating at times.

Here is a quick way to format Power BI Visuals – Watch this short tutorial to help you save time while formatting in Power BI.

Presented by: Vinai Prakash,
Founder: Intellisoft Systems & ExcelChamp.Net
Visit https://www.intellisoft.com.sg for indepth, practical, hands-on classroom training on Power BI in Singapore with master trainer Vinai.

Power BI Tip #2: Reference Query Results in Another Query With PowerQuery [Video Tutorial]

Learn PowerQuery Reference at Intellisoft Singapore

For most types of analysis, the base data is the same, probably coming from the same source. But the transformations will most likely be different, and the usage will be different too.

For example, Sales data from the past month could be used for many different analysis.

Some common types of analysis could be:

  1. to analyze the sales of the month and identify which products sold or did not sell well OR
  2. to forecast for future month based on past trends
  3. to understand inventory movement, analyze fast-moving and slow-moving goods by segmentation
  4. to recognize revenue
  5. to look at accounts receivable
  6. to analyze performance by salespersons, by geography, by division, by category, by department, and by customer segments

Now in both cases, the way we look at the data will be different, and the analysis will branch out differently too. And for each branch, we will have to load the same basic data, and do the same basic cleanup – remove duplicates, fill nulls, change data types, fix dates etc.

Rather than doing the same cleanup transformations again for each analysis, it is better to do the cleanup only once and save that query. Once the base query is ready, it can be used to extend for further transformation and analysis, depending on the need.

Power Query, which is available to you through Excel or Power BI can be used easily for this (Video Tutorial Below).  The thing to look for is

How to Reference a Query and Create a New Query from it

Referencing a Query allows us to simply take the result of one query, and take it further in another query.

I created a detailed, step by step video for you to see how to reference a query in Power Query. You can use it in Excel or in PowerBI. It works exactly the same way in both of these softwares.

I do hope you like it. You can subscribe to our YouTube Channel to be notified of new videos automatically.

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Learn Power BI From Practicing Professionals in Singapore
Intellisoft Systems conducts PowerBI training in Singapore each month. Do attend our hands-on practical training to learn Power BI from the beginning, and be able to analyze and visualize data easily with Microsoft tools.

Visit PowerBI Training in Singapore or email to training@intellisoft.com.sg for a course brochure.

Written & Presented by: Vinai Prakash,
Founder & Master Trainer, Intellisoft Systems

Vinai conducts the Microsoft Power BI training in Singapore. His Power BI courses are extremely popular, fun and easy to learn for beginners and experienced professionals alike.

Join Vinai in his next Power BI training course at Intellisoft. You won’t regret it!

 

Power BI Tip #1: Show Rows With No Data

Learn to Show Rows with No Data at Intellisoft Singapore

PowerBI is the latest & greatest software from Microsoft for data analysis & visualization. If you’re new, read the Introduction to Power BI Suite of Products for Data Analysis & Reporting.

Today, I’ll give you a fantastic tip that will make your analysis improve.

You’ll now be able to show rows with no data.

PowerBI does not show rows without data by default. But it is pretty easy to see all rows, even without data.

That’s because all Joins between tables (Dimension Tables & Fact Tables) in Power BI are Left Joins.

Check out this simple tip to view all products or categories etc. from any dimension, without missing any master data rows.

For the transactional data, only the data where rows exist in Fact tables will appear with Values. But for Dimension values without any matching transaction, you’ll see a blank row. This is pretty useful as now you have a complete view of the data, and can see where there is no data.

Hope you like this simple & quick Tip on Power BI Visualization.

Learn Power BI From Practicing Professionals in Singapore
Intellisoft Systems conducts PowerBI training in Singapore each month. Do attend our hands-on practical training to learn Power BI from the beginning, and be able to analyze and visualize data easily with Microsoft tools.

Visit PowerBI Training in Singapore or email to training@intellisoft.com.sg for a course brochure.

Written & Narrated by: Vinai Prakash,
Founder & Master Trainer, Intellisoft Systems

Vinai conducts the Microsoft Power BI trainings in Singapore. His Power BI courses are extremely popular, fun and easy to learn for beginners and experienced professionals alike.

Join Vinai in his next Power BI training course at Intellisoft. You won’t regret it!

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