Power BI training

Access Power BI training and make the most of your organisation’s data. More and more organisations are exploring Power BI as part of their reporting environment. Its powerful and flexible self-service data analysis capabilities are compelling, but how do you make the most of them, and ensure successful rollout and adoption?

We have significant experience of helping organisations on their Power BI journey, and have developed a set of Power BI workshops and training courses that form part of our Power BI Implementation Strategy.

Theta provides a range of Power BI training options, from formal classroom sessions for multiple business users, to one-on-one workshops for advanced report developers or operational support users. These training sessions can be customised to your organisation's needs or take advantage of our pre-built training content.

Power BI Training offered:

Power BI – What, Who How? (2 hr Workshop)

How could Power BI fit into the organisation’s information strategy?  

  • Who needs information, and how will they interact with it? 
  • What are the pros and cons of Power BI when it comes to different types of users and their specific requirements?
  • How it should be used and the difference between Reporting Services and Power BI
  • Licencing options
  • High level architecture options

 

Power BI User Training

The following courses are targeted to business users and advanced business users of Power BI. These courses can be customised to fit your organisation and use your own data where applicable.

 

Power BI Training Level 1: Creating Visualisations and Dashboards (2-4 hr training course)

This level 1 course provides an overview of Power BI to business users and focuses on how users can leverage Power BI's key data visualisation and collaboration features.

Topics covered

  • Introduction and overview of Power BI
  • Power BI Desktop
  • Importing, visualising and publishing
  • Power BI Service, Apps, workspaces and sharing

  

Power BI Training Level 2: Visualisations and Dashboards (4-8 hr training course)

This is an intermediate course that provides training on some of the more advanced features of Power BI for the advanced business user.

Topics covered:

  • Further exploration of commonly used visualisations
  • Organising and constraining data in visualisations
  • Creating useful measures

 

Power BI Training Level 3: Advanced Data Manipulation and Modelling (4-8 hr training course) 

This course focuses on advanced Power BI features to connect to disparate data sources, transform data (Power Query), and model data (including DAX).

Topics covered:

  • Power Query language (M)
  • Working with data types and transforming data
  • Time intelligence
  • Adding data to data models

 

Power BI as a Report Delivery platform (1 day training course)

Series of sessions, some high-level ‘what are we going to do’ and some detailed 1:1 with system administrators

One of the strengths of Power BI is the ability to publish and share reports across the organisation, or groups within it.

How do you best achieve this?

  • Setting up and maintaining the Power BI service
  • Users, Groups and Security
  • Apps / Content Packs, Workspaces
  • Governance – who can deploy, what can they deploy?

 

Custom training

Customised Power BI training workshops can be developed with your organisation's data. These sessions can follow the same training format as the standard training sessions or we can use a different approach that works for your organisation. 

Contact us to discuss your Power BI training requirements.

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