Pro Power BI Desktop

This book shows how to deliver eye-catching Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop. You can now take data from virtually any source and use it to produce stunning dashboards and compelling reports that will seize your audience’s attention. Slice and dice the data with remarkable ease then add metrics and KPIs to project the insights that create your competitive advantage. Make raw data into clear, accurate, and interactive information with Microsoft’s free self-service business intelligence tool.

Pro Power BI Desktop will help you to push your BI delivery to the next level. You’ll learn to create great-looking visualizations and let your audience have fun by interacting with the elegant and visually arresting output that you can now deliver. You can choose from a wide range of built-in and third-party visualization types so that your message is always enhanced. You’ll be able to deliver those results on the PC, on tablets, on smartphones, as well as share results via the cloud. Finally, this book helps you save time by preparing the underlying data correctly without needing an IT department to prepare it for you. Power BI Desktop will let your analyses speak for themselves.

• Simple techniques to make data into insight.
• Polished interactive dashboards to deliver attention-grabbing information.
• Visually arresting output on multiple devices grab the reader’s attention.

Pro Power BI Desktop is written for any user who is comfortable in Microsoft Office. Everyone from CEOs and Business Intelligence developers through to power users and IT managers can use this book to outshine the competition by producing 21st Century business intelligence visualizations and reporting on a variety of devices from a variety of data sources. All of this is possible through leveraging your existing skill set with the same, common Microsoft tools you already use in your daily work.

本書展示了如何使用Microsoft Power BI Desktop提供引人注目的商業智能。您現在可以從幾乎任何來源獲取數據，並使用它來生成令人驚嘆的儀表板和引人入勝的報告，以吸引您的觀眾的注意力。輕鬆地切割和分析數據，然後添加指標和關鍵績效指標，以展示創造您競爭優勢的洞察力。使用Microsoft免費的自助商業智能工具，將原始數據轉化為清晰、準確且互動的信息。

《Pro Power BI Desktop》將幫助您將商業智能交付推向新的水平。您將學習創建出色的可視化效果，並讓觀眾通過與優雅且視覺上引人入勝的輸出互動，讓他們享受樂趣。您可以從各種內置和第三方可視化類型中選擇，以增強您的信息傳達效果。您將能夠在個人電腦、平板電腦、智能手機上提供這些結果，並通過雲端共享結果。最後，本書將幫助您節省時間，無需IT部門為您準備底層數據。Power BI Desktop將讓您的分析自己說話。

您將學到以下內容：
- 簡單的技巧將數據轉化為洞察力。
- 精心設計的互動式儀表板，提供引人注目的信息。
- 在多個設備上提供視覺上引人入勝的輸出，吸引讀者的注意力。

本書適合任何熟悉Microsoft Office的用戶閱讀。從CEO和商業智能開發人員到高級用戶和IT經理，每個人都可以通過使用這本書在各種設備上從各種數據源生成21世紀的商業智能可視化效果和報告，以超越競爭。所有這些都可以通過利用您現有的技能集以及您在日常工作中已經使用的相同的常見Microsoft工具來實現。