Microsoft Power BI Training | Power BI Essentials for Business Reporting
This hands-on Power BI training is designed to help you transform raw data into interactive, professional dashboards with confidence. Over two intensive days, participants will build a strong foundation in Power BI reporting, interactivity, data modeling, and essential DAX calculations—skills you can immediately apply to real-world projects.
You’ll explore how visuals interact through cross-filtering and highlighting, enabling users to intuitively explore data. The day also introduces key time intelligence concepts, including Year-to-Date (YTD) and Year-over-Year (YoY) analysis. To elevate the user experience, you will learn how to implement navigation, bookmarks, and drill-through pages for structured and engaging reports.
Course overview
A focused, hands-on course designed to help participants build useful Power BI reports using core visuals, Power Query essentials, and practical DAX measures.
Prerequisites
- Comfortable with Excel basics
- Able to work with tables, formulas, sorting, and filtering
- No prior Power BI experience required
Who this course is intended for:
- New Power BI users
- Excel users transitioning into dashboarding and reporting
- Business users who need a strong Power BI foundation
- Teams that want a practical introduction without deep technical detail
Power BI Training Agenda:
Day 1 – Reporting fundamentals and interactivity
- Power BI interface and workflow
- Building core visuals: cards, tables, matrices, charts, maps
- Slicers and filter pane
- Cross-filtering and visual interaction
- Time intelligence basics: YTD and YoY
- Navigation, bookmarks, and drill-through
Day 2 – Essential Power Query and DAX
- Importing and shaping data in Power Query
- Append, Merge, custom columns, and unpivot overview
- Measures vs columns
- CALCULATE and filter context
- % of total calculations
- Capturing selections with SELECTEDVALUE
- Brief introduction to RLS and New Visual Calculations
Training format
- Instructor-led and hands-on
- Exercises using practical reporting examples
- Designed to balance explanation, demonstration, and student practice
Best fit:
Best for clients who want a practical 2-day introduction to Power BI with enough coverage to start building useful business reports.




