Just a quick post about the available Power BI training material.
The Power BI engineering team develops and maintains several workshops and classes that are available to our partners and community leads for free to help them to train their customers and communities on Power BI.
Every class will include all material: presenter deck, demo scripts, step-by-step student Hands-on-Lab, dataset and train the trainer video
I recently watched an interview of Boris Evelson VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester by Microsoft Technical Fellow Amir Netz about insights driven business. I’ve highlighted some of the points made during the conversation below.
Per research by Forrester, insight driven firms are expected to grow 8x to 10x faster than the global economy. Not 8%, but 8x faster.
Grow 8x to 10x faster than the global economy.
Insight Driven Firms:
Have Better Risk avoidance
More likely to uncover new revenue streams
Reduced IT costs
Have Better Security
Insight is not just data. And insights need to change behavior. The flow is in this direction: data builds signals, the signals then turn into insights, the insights trigger actions, which bring business outcomes.
What makes an organization insight driven:
Strategic investments in technology
Data, signals and insights
Collection and implementation
Cross functional insight teams
Operating model
Insights come first before action
Actionable
Continuous learning
Amir from Microsoft mentioned that everywhere within the organization they are finding 95% of MS employees use BI daily. Power BI is used as often as PowerPoint in meetings these days.
Some Power Platform Specific Points
Good BI provides a Semantic Model of the business – insight that uses the company’s jargon.
The Power Platform has 3 components that interact with each other:
Power BI now allows the embedding of PowerApps within reports allowing for what if scenarios to be easily interactive. Analyze the date, modify predictions and forecasts and see how the analysis changes immediately. Flow (Power Automate) allows for the automation of Power BI and PowerApps to be updated by external events.
They introduced to me the idea of Augmented BI
Machine Learning for data modeling and preparation
Natural language queries and generation
Addressing Knowledge Gaps automatically with ML
Unstructured data – ML can extract insights
Investing in AI and Machine Learning (ML) regarding BI is profitable.
There is a new Decomposition Tree preview feature in Power BI allowing AI to guide your drill down decisions. Leading you to the areas of the business to look at.
I encourage you to watch the interview for yourself.
