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Learn Power BI - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learn Power BI - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811958
Pages 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
Profile icon Greg Deckler

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1:The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI 3. Chapter 2: Planning Projects with Power BI 4. Section 2:The Desktop
5. Chapter 3: Up and Running with Power BI Desktop 6. Chapter 4: Connecting to and Transforming Data 7. Chapter 5: Creating Data Models and Calculations 8. Chapter 6: Unlocking Insights 9. Chapter 7: Creating the Final Report 10. Section 3:The Service
11. Chapter 8: Publishing and Sharing 12. Chapter 9: Using Reports in the Power BI Service 13. Chapter 10: Understanding Dashboards, Apps, Goals, and Security 14. Chapter 11: Refreshing Content 15. Section 4:The Future
16. Chapter 12: Deploying, Governing, and Adopting Power BI 17. Chapter 13: Putting Your Knowledge to Use 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 10: Understanding Dashboards, Apps, Goals, and Security

While reports are likely to be what you will interact with the most in the service, there are other aspects of the service that are quite powerful and can add tremendous value. It is important to understand the capabilities of dashboards and apps to determine the best method of sharing and collaborating on your work. In addition, scorecards and goals can help you keep track of important business metrics. Finally, it is imperative that you understand all of the objects within the service in order to ensure that only the proper individuals have access to and can interact with your data. The goal of this chapter is to familiarize you with all of the other objects within the service and understand how these different objects interrelate to one another in terms of security.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding dashboards
  • Creating and using apps
  • Working with goals
  • Understanding...
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