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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook. - Second Edition

You're reading from Microsoft Power BI Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813044

Pages 656 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

Gregory Deckler

Brett Powell

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Configuring Power BI Tools

2. Accessing and Retrieving Data

3. Building a Power BI Data Model

4. Authoring Power BI Reports

5. Working in the Service

6. Getting Serious with Date Intelligence

7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions

8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI

9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals

10. Administering and Monitoring Power BI

11. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions

12. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content

13. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications

14. Other Book You May Enjoy

15. Index

Sharing Content with Colleagues

Power BI apps are the recommended content distribution method for large corporate BI deployments, but for small teams and informal collaboration scenarios, sharing dashboards and reports provides a simple alternative. By sharing a dashboard, the recipient obtains read access to the dashboard, the reports supporting the dashboards tiles, and immediate visibility of any changes in the dashboard. Additionally, dashboards and reports can be shared with Power BI Pro users external to an organization via security groups and distribution lists, and Power BI Pro users can leverage Analyze in Excel as well as the Power BI mobile apps to access the shared data. Moreover, Power BI Free users can consume dashboards and reports shared with them from Power BI Premium capacity.

In this recipe, a Power BI dashboard is shared with a colleague as well as a contact in an external organization. Guidance on configuring and managing shared dashboards and additional considerations...

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Authors (2)

Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.

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Brett Powell

Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and has been a Power BI architect and lead BI consultant for organizations across the retail, manufacturing, and financial services industries. Additionally, Brett has led Boston's Power BI User Group, delivered presentations at technology events such as Power BI World Tour, and maintains the popular Insight Quest Microsoft BI blog.

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