What is Power BI?

Are you looking to understand how you can unlock your data and deliver value back to you?

You may well have data stored in on-premise data sources or cloud-based system such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Azure SQL server. Bringing together and analysing these various data streams can become complex and time consuming, but with Microsoft Power BI you can quickly access the data and deliver insights for your organisation via the Power Bi Service, SharePoint or even directly within Microsoft Teams.

Join Phoenix and Simpson Associates as we demonstrate what Power BI is, what it can do, where to start and the true value that it can deliver to the organisation.

Power BI Premium vs Pro

You may be starting off on your journey with Power BI and wondering what Premium has to offer or considering upgrading due to the increased adoption of Power BI Pro and the free edition in your organisation.

Join Phoenix and Simpson Associates, as we explore the advantages of Power BI Premium and how it can add performance to your dashboards, reports and improve your deployment and administration capabilities.

Power BI Deep Dive – Dataset Impact Analysis

When you make changes to a dataset, or are considering making changes, it is important to be able to assess the impact that those changes will have on downstream reports and dashboards that depend on that dataset. Dataset impact analysis provides you with information that can help you make this assessment.

You can perform dataset impact analysis on both shared and unshared datasets. However, it is particularly useful for datasets which are shared across workspaces, where it is much more complicated to get a clear picture of downstream dependencies than it is with unshared datasets, all of whose dependencies are located in the same workspace as the dataset itself.

Join Phoenix and Simpson Associates as we take you through some of the methods of doing this and things to consider when making changes.

Power BI Deep Dive – Data Modelling and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

Data Modelling is one of the features used to connect multiple data sources in Power BI by using a relationship. A relationship defines how those data sources are connected with each other and you can create valuable data visualisations from those multiple data sources.

With the modelling feature, you can build custom calculations on the existing tables and these columns can be directly presented in Power BI visualisations. This allows organisations to define new metrics and perform custom calculations for those metrics.

Join Phoenix and Simpson Associates, for this Deep Dive session where we focus on Data Modelling and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). We also explore the basics of building data models in Power BI, including what the best structure is and how to solve common data modelling problems, as well as an introduction to using DAX.