Power BI - Analyze business data and visualize it interactively
Power BI turns raw data into meaningful visualizations. With the right tool, you can spot patterns, track trends, and make decisions backed by solid data.
Key topics
- Bringing together and cleaning data from multiple sources.
- Structuring data sets and building data models.
- Developing interactive reports step by step.
- Calculating key metrics using DAX formulas.
- Designing informative dashboards.
- Publishing reports in the cloud and sharing them with your team.
Prerequisite
You can get started if you have a basic grasp of business processes and have worked with spreadsheets before.
Target group
This course is for anyone who regularly works with business data and wants to make their reports clearer and more impactful – in controlling, IT, marketing, or management.
Mastering Power BI lets you work with data more deliberately – bringing greater clarity to reports, strategies, and everyday business processes.
- Power BI and its key use cases at a glance
- Differences and strengths compared to Microsoft Excel
- Exploring the user interface
- Connecting to a data source
- Creating your first Power BI report
- Note for installation: see appendix “Installing Power BI”
- Understanding large data sets as the basis for reports
- Connecting different data sources
- Making data available for queries
- Combining multiple data sources in one report
- Exploring advanced report features
- Developing a report in a structured way
- Improving reports intentionally
- Using helpful features in Power BI reports
- Improving readability and user experience
- Applying optimizations in practice
- Editing data sources with precision
- Cleaning and transforming data sets
- Overview of the online version of Power BI
- Comparison with the Desktop interface
- Extended features: dashboards, alerts, and comments
- Restricting data access to authorized users
- Structuring reports to keep the flow of information under control
- Available versions of Power BI (free and subscription)
- Overview of the different components
Up to 100% funding for your continuing education
Attractive funding opportunities are available for numerous continuing education programs – depending on the funding program, up to 100% funding is possible.
The requirement is that you live or work in Germany. Our funding opportunities are not available outside of Germany.
Funding opportunities are available for career starters, job seekers, career changers, startups, experienced professionals, those seeking career advancement, and specialists.