Power BI Training for Beginners

This course is the perfect starting point for beginners looking to develop practical skills in Power BI Desktop and the world of Business Intelligence. Designed with flexibility and support in mind, this hands-on training takes you from complete beginner to building data-driven, interactive reports that deliver real business impact.

You will learn:

• How to connect to a range of data sources

• How to transform and clean data for use in BI analysis

• The art of creating Semantic Models

• How to create stunning reports and dashboards

Is this the course for you?

Whether BI developer or business analyst, those who come to PTR for training are almost always dealing with the same business problems:

• How do I make creating insights from my excel spreadsheets easier?

• How can I make my reports more insightful and eye-catching?

• I have too much data and it's taking too long to analyse it, how do I make this process simpler and less time consuming?

• My data is too complicated, how can I user Power BI to make it usable for reporting?

If this sounds familiar, then this is definitely the course for you! Learning to use Power BI will take away the time consuming process of manually crunching through spreadsheets and enable you to produce vastly superior visuals to anything you can create in excel or power point. Moreover, once you've prepared your data your process can be automated saving you from the countless lost hours frantically preparing your reports for those pesky weekly meetings. Whatever your data challenge, come and join us on this Introduction to Power BI course and you'll never look at business reporting the same way again!

This Power BI training is offered in a UK based face to face classroom or virtual setting and can be tailored to your needs. That means if you have a very specific problem you need to deal with then let us know and we can focus your training to help meet your business needs.

What Next?

Our Introduction to DAX course will reveal to you a whole new world of Power BI. DAX is the native language of Power BI and is used extensively to create a variety of measures, creating powerful insights for your reports.

Introduction to Power Query focuses on the Data cleansing and preparation stage of Power BI development. We introduce M Script and R Script for more complex, out of the ordinary, transformation needs.

Consider some follow-on workshops working with your own data and discover how your new Power BI skills can be applied in your own challenging environments with our blended learning options .

There are no technical pre-requisites for this course and complete Power BI beginners will be well suited to this programme. However, a familiarity with Excel may assist you.

Our strongest recommendation ahead of attending the Introduction to Power BI course is to have at least a basic understanding of your business intelligence needs and objectives. Consider the data insights you wish to create and where you might source this data from. With this in hand, you will get the most value of out of this course and come away with highly valuable Power BI skills specific to your business needs.