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24SR-P006: K2's Business Intelligence, Featuring Microsoft's Power BI Tools (Virtual)

Wednesday, June 19, 2024
9:00am - 4:30pm Central Time
8 CPE (8 technical)

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Business intelligence (BI) is a hot topic in today's business climate. Organizations of all sizes seek to take advantage of the data available to them to identify previously undiscovered insights and gain competitive advantages thought to be out of reach just a few years ago. A growing array of tools -- from Excel add-ins to dedicated solutions such as Power BI -- allow you to leverage existing knowledge and skills to create powerful, interactive dashboards and analyses.

Learn to implement “do-it-yourself business intelligence” using various techniques and tools. Discover how to use advanced Excel data query and summarization features to create Excel-based dashboards. Leverage this knowledge to build even more powerful BI objects using Microsoft's Power BI tools.

Major subjects

The importance of business intelligence in today's business climate
Differentiating between Power BI licensing options
A hands-on approach to creating effective Power BI reports and dashboards

Learning objective(s)

Create Excel-based BI dashboards
List the potential shortcomings of BI solutions based wholly on Excel
Identify and implement various Excel add-ins that might be helpful in BI applications
Differentiate between the BI opportunities in Excel and Power BI
Create and distribute dashboards using Power BI

Who should take this program?

Business professionals seeking to develop and implement BI solutions

Fees

Our records indicate you are a nonmember. If you register, you will be charged $449.00 (Standard Nonmember Fee). Members: Please log in to receive member fee.