Mastering Power BI: Unlocking Data Insights with Microsoft

Who should read this book?
BI Developers and Consultants who want to know how to develop solutions with this
technology. BI Architects and Decision Makers who want to make their decision about using
or not using Power BI in their BI applications. Business Analysts who want to have a better
tool for playing with the data and learn tricks of producing insights easier. The book titled
“Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar” and that means it will cover a wide range of readers. I’ll
start by writing 100 level, and we will go deep into 400 level at some stage. So, if you don’t
know what Power BI is, or If you are familiar with Power BI but want to learn some deep
technical topics about Power Query M language, then this book is for you.
Power BI is not a new name in the BI market, components of Power BI has been in the
market through different periods. Some components such As Power BI Desktop is such
new that released as general availability at 24th of July. On the other hand Power Pivot
released in 2010 for the first time. Microsoft team worked through a long period to
build a big umbrella called Power BI; this big umbrella is not just a visualization tool
such as Tableau, it is not just a self-service data analysis tool such as PivotTable and
PivotChart in Excel, it is not just a cloud-based tool for data analysis. Power BI is a
combination of all of those, and it is much more. With Power BI you can connect to
many data sources (wide range of data sources supported, and more data sources add
to the list every month). You can mash up the data as you want with a very powerful
data mashup engine. You can model the data, build your star schema, or add measures
and calculated columns with an In-Memory super fast engine. You can visualize data
with a great range of data visualization elements and customize it to tell the story