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This guide focuses on utilizing JSON theme files to achieve a uniform appearance for Power BI dashboards and reports. It covers the creation of theme files in Power BI Desktop, allowing users to set high-level formatting attributes and customize detailed specifications for individual elements. By implementing these techniques, readers gain precise control over the visual presentation of their dashboards and reports, ensuring consistency across all outputs.

Focused on data integration, this book guides readers through sourcing and transforming external data for Power BI, enhancing business insights. It covers connections to various data sources, including Azure SQL, SQL Server, and file-based options, as well as cloud and web-based sources. Additionally, it delves into techniques like Direct Query and Live Connect, allowing for real-time database connections without the need to load data, streamlining the analysis process for a competitive advantage.

The book focuses on creating robust data models that integrate information from various sources into a unified structure. It emphasizes the use of DAX, the query language essential for Power BI, to enhance these models by developing reusable measures. Readers will learn how to perform custom calculations that improve the functionality and presentation of their dashboards, enabling more insightful data analysis.

Microsoft's key BI tool empowers users to create visually appealing analyses efficiently. This guide is designed for analysts, managers, power users, and developers, offering essential techniques to transform source data into engaging dashboards. Readers will learn how to provide clear, accurate insights that captivate their audience, making the most of self-service business intelligence capabilities.

Focusing on the Get and Transform feature in Microsoft Excel, this book guides readers through the process of importing external data for enhanced reporting and analysis. It covers connections to various databases, including Microsoft Azure and web sources, enabling users to effectively integrate and manipulate data within their spreadsheets. With comprehensive explanations and practical insights, it equips readers with the skills needed for effective business intelligence and data visualization.

Showing how to deliver eye-catching Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop, this book shows how to take data from virtually any source and use it to produce dashboards and reports toseize your audience s attention, and slice and dice the data with ease before adding metrics and KPIs to project your insights.

Helps in harnessing the power of Microsoft's flagship, self-service business intelligence suite to deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable ease. learn the essential techniques needed to enhance the look and feel of reports and dashboards so that you can seize your audience's attention and provide them with clear and accurate information. Also learn to integrafro mata froma variety of sources and create coherent data models displaying clear metrics and attributes

Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you deliver business intelligence with panache. Harness the power of the Reporting Services toolkit to combine charts, gauges, sparklines, indicators, and maps into compelling dashboards and scorecards. Create compelling visualizations that seize your audience’s attention and help business users identify and react swiftly to changing business conditions. Best of all, you'll do all these things by creating new value from software that is already installed and paid for – SQL Server and the included SQL Server Reporting Services. Businesses run on numbers, and good business intelligence systems make the critical numbers immediately and conveniently accessible. Business users want access to key performance indicators in the office, at the beach, and while riding the subway home after a day's work. Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you meet these need for anywhere/anytime access by including chapters specifically showing how to deliver on modern devices such as smart phones and tablets. You'll learn to deliver the same information, with similar look-and-feel, across the entire range of devices used in business today. Key performance indicators give fast notification of business unit performance Polished dashboards deliver essential metrics and strategic comparisons Visually arresting output on multiple devices focuses attention

High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI helps you take business intelligence delivery to a new level that is interactive, engaging, even fun, all while driving commercial success through sound decision-making. Learn to harness the power of Microsoft<U+0080>́<U+0099>s flagship, self-service business intelligence suite to deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable ease. Learn the essential techniques needed to enhance the look and feel of reports and dashboards so that you can seize your audience<U+0080>́<U+0099>s attention and provide them with clear and accurate information. Also learn to integrate data from a variety of sources and create coherent data models displaying clear metrics and attributes. Power View is Microsoft's ground-breaking tool for ad-hoc data visualization and analysis. It's designed to produce elegant and visually arresting output. It's also built to enhance user experience through polished interactivity. Power Map is a similarly powerful mechanism for analyzing data across geographic and political units. Power Query lets you load, shape and streamline data from multiple sources. PowerPivot can extend and develop data into a dynamic model. Power BI allows you to share your findings with colleagues, and present your insights to clients. High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI helps you master this suite of powerful tools from Microsoft. You'll learn to identify data sources, and to save time by preparing your underlying data correctly. You'll also learn to deliver your powerful visualizations and analyses through the cloud to PCs, tablets and smartphones. Simple techniques take raw data and convert it into information. Slicing and dicing metrics delivers interactive insight. Visually arresting output grabs and focuses attention on key indicators