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Power BI - Overview and Learning

Microsoft Power BI is a collection of online services and features that enables you to find and visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways. There are two experiences now available for Power BI: the new experience, generally referred to as Power BI, and the previous experience which is referred to as Power BI for Office 365.
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The new experience is centered on PowerBI.com, an online service where you can quickly create dashboards, share reports, and directly connect to (and incorporate) all the data that’s important to you. The new experience also introduces the Power BI Desktop, a dedicated report authoring tool that enables you to transform data, create powerful reports and visualizations, and easily publish to Power BI. The new experience extends to all your mobile devices, too.
Note: If you were using the previous experience and want to migrate to the new experience, you can download this migration guide to understand and prepare for the migration process.
The following sections provide an overview of the new experience, along with introductions and links to learn more about the details and capabilities of each offering.

Power BI - the new experience

In the new experience, Power BI displays dashboards on the Power BI service that are interactive, and can be created and updated from many different data sources. Three elements are primary to the new experience:
In the new experience, you create dashboards that keep you informed about what’s most important about your business. Just like a dashboard in your car displays important information about your vehicle, such as its speed, its fuel level, or how healthy the engine is, dashboard in Power BI display important information about your business.
Dashboard in Power BI In Power BI, dashboards display tiles that represent important information about your business. Tiles are based on reports (just like gauges are based on vehicle data from the engine, the fuel tank, or the battery). You can select a tile to explore more information from the underlying report.
Power BI - dashboard to report The new experience also introduces a dedicated report authoring tool:
With Power BI Desktop, you get a powerful and dedicated report authoring tool that enables you to connect to and combine data from lots of different sources, using Power BI Desktop's Query Editor. From the datasets you build with Query Editor you can create rich reports and visualization within Power BI Desktop. And when you’re done, publishing to the Power BI service is easy.
Power BI Desktop There’s a lot more to learn about the new experience, and plenty of content to help you . The following links provide information about the new experience, and start with overview information (to get your familiar, oriented, and comfortable) then move into specifics. A separate section is dedicated to the Power BI Desktop, and those links also go from overview to specifics.

Getting Started - the new experience





Publish to Power BI from Excel 2016

With Excel 2016, you can publish your Excel workbooks right to your Power BI site, where you can create highly interactive reports and dashboards based on your workbook’s data. You can then share your insights with others in your organization.
Before we go any further, there are few things to keep in mind:
  • Before you can publish to Power BI, your workbook must be saved to OneDrive for Business.
  • The account you use to sign in to Office, OneDrive for Business, and Power BI must be the same account.
  • You cannot publish an empty workbook or a workbook that doesn’t have any Power BI supported content.
  • You cannot publish encrypted or password protected workbooks, or workbooks with Information Protection Management.
  • Publishing to Power BI requires modern authentication be enabled (default). If disabled, the Publish option is not available from the File menu.

To publish your Excel workbook

In Excel, click File > Publish.
If your workbook isn’t already saved to OneDrive, you’ll need to save it there first. Click Save to Cloud and choose a location in OneDrive for Business.
Publish to Power BI Save to OneDrive dialog Once your workbook is saved to OneDrive, when you click Publish, you’ll get two options on how to get your workbook into Power BI.
Publish to Power BI Upload or Export dialog

Upload your workbook to Power BI

When you choose this option, your workbook will appear in Power BI just like it would in Excel Online. But, unlike Excel Online, you’ll have some great features to help you pin elements from your worksheets to dashboards.
You can’t edit your workbook in when open in Power BI, but if you need to make some changes, you can click Edit, and then choose to edit your workbook in Excel Online or open it in Excel on your computer. Any changes you make are saved to the workbook on OneDrive.
When you upload, no dataset is created in Power BI. Your workbook will appear in Reports, in your workspace navigation pane. Workbooks uploaded to Power BI have a special Excel icon, identifying them as Excel workbooks that have been uploaded.
Choose this option if you only have data in worksheets, or you have PivotTables and Charts you want to see in Power BI.
Using Upload from Publish to Power BI in Excel is pretty much the same as using Get Data > File > OneDrive for Business >Connect, Manage and View Excel in Power BI from Power BI in your browser.

Export workbook data to Power BI

When you choose this option, any supported data in tables and/or a data model are exported into a new dataset in Power BI. If you have any Power View sheets, those will be re-created in Power BI as reports.
You can continue editing your workbook. When your changes are saved, they’ll be synchronized with the dataset in Power BI, usually within about an hour. If you need more immediate gratification, you can just click Publish again, and your changes are exported right then and there. Any visualizations you have in reports and dashboards will be updated, too.
Choose this option if you’ve used Get & Transform data or Power Pivot to load data into a data model, or if your workbook has Power View sheets with visualizations you want to see in Power BI.
Using Export from Publish to Power BI in Excel is pretty much the same as using Get Data > File > OneDrive for Business >Export Excel data into Power BI from Power BI in your browser.

Publishing

When you choose either option, Excel will sign in to Power BI with your current account, and then publish your workbook to your Power BI site. Keep an eye on the status bar in Excel. It shows how things are going.
Publishing status When complete, you can go to Power BI right from Excel.

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