In the previous “recipe” was the word on how to import data to PowerBI and I have listed a number of sources from which it can connect. In what follows we will focus on the description of the user interface, and then you will see at practical example how to make reports and add them to dashboards. We will not be focusing on details but I believe you will, after reading this article, be able to independently create PowerBI reports.
In a previous post I talked about the history and gave brief introductory remarks regarding PowerBI service and its “tastes” (PowerBI, PowerBI Desktop, PowerBI Mobile). In the text that follows you will see how to apply on PowerBI service and import data from a desired source. We will connect to data table, taken from ERP solution, and connect to the data you will later use to create the report. Concentrate, the magic begins!
PowerBI is the Microsoft Cloud service that allows you to download data from different sources, their storage and processing in order to generate vivid reports that an be seen on almost every platform imaginable. This is a tool that Microsoft has high hopes on and which is developing at an incredible rate. Every month there is a new version that fixes bugs and brings new functionalities.
Most of us are using Google Maps, but a few years ago Microsoft also went into the race and created its own version of the maps named after its Bing search engine. From Excel 2016 exists an add-in with the same name that you can use to display charts on maps. It allows you to display data, in a form of charts, positioned on maps that can be customized to the desired report layout.
In the previous “recipe” you could read about add-ins that you can download from the Office Store. One of them is called People Graph, and starting from the 2016 version, it’s a standard part of Excel. People Graph is convenient for showing charts that describe the results of a survey in which a population is being tested. It is used in a very simple way, and it enables the creation of picturesque reports.