Power BI is the leader of the pack when it comes to Business Intelligence tools. It has several different licence types, depending on how users want to use and interact with it. If you’re thinking about using Power BI business analytics tools to deliver insights throughout your organisation, or if you’ve been provided a licence by your company, you’ll need to understand what these licences are, how they work and what facilities each offer. Update: We cover licencing in our… Read More
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By Burningsuit
Power BI Resources 6th February 2018
How to share Power BI Reports
Sharing Power BI reports is a good way to give more than one person in your business access to dashboards and reports, and is a productive feature in the Power BI Pro package. Through our training courses, we understand it can initially seem unclear how to share reports. What you need You and the person you are sharing the report with must both have a Power BI Pro license. Unfortunately, you are unable to collaborate and distribute your reports using… Read More
By Burningsuit
Microsoft Power BI Resources 28th November 2017Power BI vs Tableau: Five reasons Power BI wins
When it comes to business intelligence tools there is no doubt that the two front-runners are Power BI and Tableau. With both of them being very similar products, it can be tricky to choose which one is best for you. It would be easy for us to simply say that Power BI trumps Tableau and you shouldn’t even consider Tableau as an option, but the truth is the best product very much depends on you, your organisation, budget and your intended use… Read More
By Stuart Box
Power BI Resources Training 29th September 2017
We could tell you but then……
We’ve been training Power BI since its first release. It’s an interesting application to learn, as the monthly updates mean there is always something new to master before training others. I’m staggered to find that there have been over 800 new features brought in to Power BI Desktop and Service since July 2015. I’ve often said, we have to run as fast as we can just to keep up with the release schedule. But now we’ve got help. Earlier this… Read More
By Alison Box
Excel Power BI Resources 12th May 2017
Quick Measures or Quick Fix – are Power BI’s Quick Measures up to the mark?
Hey Excel users, anyone remember this? Yes, it’s the now defunct “Lookup Wizard” which, according the MSDN Library entry of January 1996, “…helps Excel users create lookup formulas quickly. Even expert users will find the Wizard’s lookup formulas useful in advanced spreadsheet and application development projects” Well, this was obviously not the case or else this “useful” wizard would still be with us today. What “expert” Excel user can’t construct a simple Vlookup or even use the fiddly Index/Match combo?… Read More
By Stuart Box
Microsoft Power BI Resources 13th March 2017
Theme Colours in Power BI
The March update to Power BI has added a host of new features, take a look here to see them all. One preview feature we've been waiting for is the ability to use "Theme Colours", packages of colour themes for charts and graphs. So now we can customise our Dashboards and Reports to use corporate colours, highlight particular data sets, or just get some differentiation by using some funky colours. One slight downside to this is that the themes are… Read More
By Stuart Box
Power BI Resources 21st February 2017
Top Five Reasons to Persuade Your Boss to Implement Power BI
We love Power BI, and have run many courses in it. The cloud-based data analytics tool speaks to our inner data geek. I can manipulate large amounts of data, and produce informative and compelling dashboards and reports, then share them with my colleagues, easily quickly and without having to be a programmer or “Power User”. Our course attendees love Power BI too, but some of them have said that they need to convince their Boss to implement it. So, if… Read More
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By Stuart Box
Power BI Resources 6th July 2016
Power BI Resources
We're doing a lot of training in Microsoft's Power BI, from PowerPivot in Excel to the new Power BI service. To help our trainees, and anyone else that finds it useful, I've collated a number of resources we use to learn and teach Power BI, I hope you find them useful. Books Applied Microsoft Power BI - bring your data to life by Teo Lachev and Edward Price Teo pulls of a difficult job in writing about a service that… Read More
By Stuart Box
Power BI Resources 11th February 2016
PowerPivot “Publish to Web” Test
Microsoft have (at last) enabled a "publish to web" feature in Power BI. The feature is in "preview" at present, and - ominously - they warn that they may charge for this facility in future. But for the moment, publish to web is free. So what does it look like ? Well here is a Report from my Power BI service. Read More
By Alison Box
PowerPivot 18th May 2015
Why the Excel Vlookup Function is “So Last Year, Darling” – Part 2
In my last blog, I showed you how easy it was to use Power Pivot to produce a Pivot table that pulled in data across two tables, Drinks and Categories (without using a Vlookup). Well, we’re going to carry on ditching the Vlookup by looking at Power Pivot’s equivalent function, called “Related” Remember in our fictitious wine bar (in down town Billingshurst) we were able to find out that we stock most drinks that are from the “Wines” category;- But… Read More
