Power BI - About it and helpful lLinks


Power BI is the latest trend to provide you the 360 degree of graphical interface in report dashboard. It involves with great services, app, and connectors to make this work. Two flavor are there i.e. Power BI Services, Power BI Desktop. Power BI Services is browser based and Power BI Desktop is windows apps helps to create your report, data model and then you can publish them on your web dashboard. To Learn more on What is Power BI - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-overview


Here you can found the guided learning path from Microsoft on Power BI - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guided-learning/ . Power BI Desktop is very user friendly tool and you can quickly build up the most favorable report within a few clicks. More to know about the Power BI Desktop - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-what-is-desktop

One great feature of Power BI is measure. It  is a calculation that exists in your Power BI data model. Here the link will help you to know more about measure about how to create and use it in your data model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guided-learning/modeling?tutorial-step=5


Power BI is mobile friendly. It is compatible with Apple, Android, and Microsoft mobile OS. Here you can learn more about Power BI Mobile app - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/mobile-apps-for-mobile-devices

Finally, for developers, there are a lot you can do in Power BI API calls. Following links would help on knowing more in development space:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/what-can-you-do
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embed-sample-for-customers


Enjoy Power BI!

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