17 May Academy- Power BI 3 Day Boot Camp Academy- Power BI 3 Day Boot Camp Wednesday, May 17, 2017 (9:00 AM) to Friday, May 19, 2017 (5:00 PM) (Eastern Time) GoToMeeting OR Onsite in Tampa Ted Pattison ... Details You're Registered! DescriptionSpeakers This class will be offered Distance Learning as well as onsite in Tampa, Florida (DCE Productions, 5415 W Sligh Ave. Suite 102). During the registration process, you will be asked if you wish to take the class onsite. Power BI Boot Camp is fast-paced 3-day training course designed to get students up to speed on building and deploying custom solutions using Microsoft’s rapidly evolving Power BI platform. Students will work through in-depth, hands-on lab exercises to reinforce the benefits of using a project-based approach for creating custom BI solutions. The course also teaches students about the tools and techniques that are used to move a Power BI project through its lifecycle to the point where the project can be deployed into a production tenant in the Office 365 environment. Class Dates: May 17- May 19 (9AM-5PM Eastern Time), Students will learn what can be accomplished with the Power BI service using just a browser as well as which types of project work must be completed using Power BI Desktop. Students will learn how to use the query features in Power BI Desktop to import and transform data as it loads into a project’s data model. The course also teaches students how to use the data modeling features of Power BI Desktop and the DAX programming language to extend the data model to support rich data analytics and reporting. Students will additionally learn how to create reports and dashboards as well as how to deploy a project using dashboard sharing and using organizational content packs. Along the way, students will learn how to create and manage custom Power BI solutions which analyze, report on and refresh data extracted from SharePoint lists and SQL server databases in an on-premises environment. Students will also learn how to create reports and dashboards which target mobile devices. The course concludes by examining how to integrate the Power BI platform together with Excel 2016 and Excel Online. Course Modules: 1. Introducing the Power BI Platform 2. Getting Started with Power BI Desktop 3. Mastering the Query Features of Power BI Desktop 4. Designing a Data Model with Power BI Desktop 5. Modeling Data with Hierarchies and Time Intelligence 6. Designing Interactive Reports in Power BI Desktop 7. Designing and Deploying Dashboards 8. Designing Dashboards for Mobile Devices 9. Managing Power BI Gateways and On-premises Data 10. Integrating Power BI with Excel 2016 and Excel Online Audience: Business Analysts, BI Professionals and Data Wranglers Level: Intermediate Student Prerequisites-Students should have prior experience working with Microsoft Excel and be familiar with navigating around within the Office 365 and Excel Online environment. It is recommended that students also have prior experience working with relational databases, tabular databases and other related BI technologies. Preparation: Attendees need a laptop that runs Windows so they can install Power BI Desktop and work on lab exercises. Each student will get a student manual containing the lab exercises. Delivery Method: Group Internet Based or Group Live(Instructor led training with hands-on labs) Ted Pattison Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and owner of Critical Path Training, a company dedicated to education on Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Office 365, Windows Azure and Power BI. Ted is a 11-time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award for SharePoint Server development and for Office 365 development. Since 2014, Ted has worked extensively with the Power BI platform and he teaches technical classes such as Power BI Bootcamp to get business users and analysts up to speed on self-service BI technologies such as Power BI Desktop, Power Query and Power Pivot.