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K2's Business Intelligence, Featuring Microsoft's Power BI Tools
★★★★☆
4.4 · 14 attendee ratings
Business Intelligence (BI) is perhaps the hottest topic in most professional circles in today's business climate. Increasingly, organizations of all sizes are seeking to take advantage of the data available to them to identify previously undiscovered insights and gain competitive advantages thought to be out of reach just a few short years ago. A growing array of tools – from Excel add-ins to dedicated solutions such as Power BI – now allow you to leverage your existing knowledge and skills to create powerful, interactive dashboards and analyses unthinkable until recently. This program will teach you to implement “do-it-yourself business intelligence” using a variety of techniques and tools. First, you will learn to use advanced Excel data query and summarization features to create Excel-based dashboards. You will then learn how to leverage that knowledge to build even more powerful BI objects using Microsoft's Power BI tools. If gaining better insights into your data to make better decisions interests you, then join us for a fast-paced look at how you can take advantage of these fantastic tools.
Learning objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Create Excel-based BI dashboards
- List the potential shortcomings of BI solutions based wholly on Excel
- Identify and implement various Excel add-ins that might useful in BI applications
- Differentiate between the BI opportunities in Excel and Power BI
- Create and distribute dashboards using Power BI
Major topics
The importance of Business Intelligence in today’s business climate
Differentiating between Power BI licensing options
A hands-on approach to creating effective Power BI reports and dashboards
Who this is for
Busy professionals enhancing business intelligence skills
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of computer operations and terminology, including Microsoft Office Excel 2019 and newer
What's included
Every registration comes with the course materials — yours to keep.
- Course handout PDF
- Demonstration & sample files ZIP
Course details
- Recommended CPE credit
- 8 — Accounting
- Field of study
- Accounting
- Program level
- Advanced
- Delivery method
- Group Internet Based
- Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of computer operations and terminology, including Microsoft Office Excel 2019 and newer
- Advance preparation
- None
- Length
- 6h 40m
- Course number
- 23s-bif
- Provider
- K2 Enterprises
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4.4
14 attendee ratings
Attendee reviews
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“Very well presented with good information. Thank you.”
★★★★★
“This session was very good and I learned a lot. There was a lot of information provided. This was my first exposure with Power BI and it may take some time to learn how to use it proficiently. Mac did a good job of presenting the information.”
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