PowerBI FAQ
What is PowerBI?
Power BI Desktop integrates proven Microsoft query engine, data modeling, and visualization technologies. You can create collections of queries, data connections, models, and reports, and easily share them with others. Power BI provides new insights of your data that are easier to model, build, share, and extend.
How is it useful to me?
PowerBI Desktop centralizes, simplifies, and streamlines your data. You can build business intelligence repositories and reports. PowerBI provides a very clear representation of your data, your business needs, any decisions to be made, and the results.
What functionality would I have?
- Connect to data, including multiple data sources.
- Shape the data with queries that build insightful, compelling data models.
- Use the data models to create visualizations and reports.
- Share your report files for others to leverage and build upon.
Where can I learn more?
These YouTube and Microsoft links will be helpful:
- PowerBI Tutorial for Beginners
- Get started with PowerBI Desktop
- PowerBI overview
- Tutorial: Get started creating in the PowerBI service
IMPORTANT: Please do not sign up for the PowerBI Service, or the free Trial of PowerBI Premium, or Microsoft Fabric mentioned on the above two web pages. RRC already has PowerBI Pro licenses for College staff.
Open the following helpful how to links from that main web page:
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