Power BI for Financial Analysts: Certification Preparation (PL-300) Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at business analysts, data analysts, and developers who wish to use the advanced features and tools in Power BI to perform complex data analysis and create interactive visual reports.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Power BI and the necessary components.
• Understand and explore the advanced features, components, and tools in Power BI.
• Get valuable insights on advanced data analysis and strategy.
• Apply advanced data modeling techniques.
• Learn how to implement advanced formulas and calculations using DAX.
• Know the tips and tricks on data handling, visualization, and presentation.
• Make reports and dashboards interactive to enable collaboration within Power BI.
• Learn and explore embedded analytics in Power BI.

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to gain a practical understanding of available cloud solutions, the data analysis processes needed to work with data in the cloud, and the hands-on practice to apply tools such as Power BI to analyze data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Power BI.
• Evaluate the various data solutions offered by cloud providers such as Azure.
• Gain an understanding of the different structures, modeling approaches, and data warehouse designs used to store, manage and access Big Data.
• Apply tools and techniques to clean data in preparation for analysis.
• Build reporting and analytics solutions based on on-premise as well as cloud data.
• Integrate data analytics solutions with a data warehouse.
• Mitigate data security risks and ensure data privacy.

This course will discuss the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will also show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational data. This course will also explore how to implement proper security standards and policies across the Power BI spectrum including datasets and groups. The course will also discuss how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution. Finally, this course will show how to build paginated reports within the Power BI service and publish them to a workspace for inclusion within Power BI.

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to learn techniques for preparing data in Excel, then visualizing it in Power BI.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of data analysis, objectives of data analysis, and approaches for data analysis.
• Use DAX formulas in Power BI for complex calculations.
• Create and use visualizations and charts for particular analysis cases.
• Import with Power View to move from Excel based Power BI to independent Power BI.

Learn how to Get & Transform Data to Prepare Interactive Dashboards

Power BI is one of the most popular Data Visualization tool, and a Business Intelligence Tool. Power BI is a collection of data connectors, apps, and software services, which are used to get data from different source, transforms data, and produce beautiful reports.

Power BI also allows you to publish them for your organization so that you can access them using mobiles, tablets etc. In this Power BI Tutorial, we will show you the step by step approach to connect with multiple data sources, data transformations, and creating reports like charts, tables, matrix, maps, etc

This course will discuss the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will also show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational data. This course will also explore how to implement proper security standards and policies across the Power BI spectrum including datasets and groups. The course will also discuss how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution.

Microsoft Power BI transforms your company data into rich visuals that facilitate new ways of thinking about and organizing your data, so that you can focus on what is important to achieving your goals. This course covers both Power BI on Line and Power BI desktop.

Audience:

This course is intended for Business Managers, Report Developers, Analysts, Project Managers and Team Leads.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will have a basic understanding of the topics below, as well as an ability to utilize and implement the concepts learned.

• Power BI
• Power BI Desktop
• Working with CSV, TXT, and Excel Worksheets
• Connecting to Databases
• Merging, Grouping, Summarizing, and Calculating Data
• Reporting
• Power BI Online

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level data professionals and business analysts who wish to effectively use Power BI for data analysis and visualization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Power BI's architecture and its core components.
• Connect to various data sources and perform data transformations.
• Create effective visualizations and interactive dashboards.
• Implement row-level security and manage data access.

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level data professionals who wish to create compelling data visualizations and dashboards with Power BI.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Import and transform data from various sources.
• Develop and optimize data models.
• Create visually appealing and interactive reports and dashboards.
• Apply best practices in data visualization and dashboard design.
• Utilize advanced features of Power BI for in-depth data analysis.

Microsoft Power BI is a free Software as a Service (SaaS) suite for analyzing data and sharing insights. Power BI dashboards provide a 360-degree view of the most important metrics in one place, updated in real time, and available on all of their devices.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at business managers, business analysts, data analysts, report developers, and team leads who wish to design a perfect Power BI dashboard.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design beautiful and efficient dashboards following the critical rules.
• Choose the right charts based on the kind of data for display.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level business analysts, data analysts, and developers who wish to learn the fundamentals of DAX in Power BI.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Have a comprehensive understanding of Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) in Power BI.
• Create custom calculations and expressions in Power BI for analyzing data and deriving insights.
• Learn best practices to optimize DAX performance.

In this instructor-led, live training in Kenya (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to use Microsoft Power BI to analyze and visualize data using a series of sample data sets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create visually compelling dashboards that provide valuable insights into data.
• Obtain and integrate data from multiple data sources.
• Build and share visualizations with team members.
• Adjust data with Power BI Desktop.

In this instructor-led, live training in Kenya, participants will learn how to use Power BI to develop custom software solutions for the Power BI and Azure platforms.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure real-time dashboards.
• Create custom visualizations.
• Integrate rich analytics into existing applications.
• Embed interactive reports and visuals into existing applications.
• Access data from within an application.
• Master Power BI Portal, Desktop, Embedded and Rest API.
• Integrate R Scripts into Power BI Desktop.

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level business intelligence professionals who wish to have a comprehensive understanding and practical skill set for integrating PowerBI with SAP B1.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of SAP Business One and PowerBI.
• Successfully integrate PowerBI with SAP B1, including setting up the necessary tools and connectors.
• Efficiently extract data from SAP B1 and transform it in PowerBI for effective analysis.
• Create dynamic and insightful reports and dashboards in PowerBI using data from SAP B1.

This instructor-led, live training in Kenya (online or onsite) is aimed at expert-level data analysts who wish to leverage Python's data analysis capabilities within Power BI, enhancing their ability to analyze and visualize data effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn how Python can be integrated into Power BI for data analysis.
• Use Python scripts to load, clean, and preprocess data within the Power BI environment.
• Enhance data visualization capabilities by creating custom and interactive visualizations using Python.
• Acquire advanced data analysis skills using Python.