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Gregory Deckler
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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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Introducing the service

The Power BI service, or simply the service, is a web-based SaaS product that is complementary to the Power BI Desktop. The service provides a means by which Power BI users can create new datasets and reports as well as publish, share, and collaborate on data models and reports that are created in Power BI Desktop. The service is built around storing reports, dashboards, workbooks, datasets, and dataflows.

Let's take a brief look at the service and the major capabilities it provides.

Touring the service

Once logged in to the service, the Power BI service interface is somewhat reminiscent of the Power BI Desktop interface, although somewhat simpler.

The Power BI service's user interface is comprised of three main areas, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.1 – A tour of the service

We will now investigate these three areas more closely. Please refer to Figure 8.1 throughout the upcoming sections...

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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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