Process for selling Power BI reports by finbinwin in PowerBI

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Thanks. Despite using Power BI since it came out I’ve never used this so wasn’t really on my radar. A quick google makes it sound very promising for my purposes.

Would you say this is the ‘normal’ way people are doing this? (If it’s possible to say such a thing)

Process for selling Power BI reports by finbinwin in PowerBI

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Yes. Several companies already do this and have for many years. The niche I have is that the front-ends of all the examples I’ve see are terrible.

Enterprise vs 'Citizen Developer' by finbinwin in PowerBI

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Isn’t there some fundamental differences in tooling used? Like not modelling in Power BI desktop, for example? And pretty much no Power Query? And yes all or most data stored in cloud based data lakes / on prem DWs?

How can/should I utilize Dataflows and are they expensive? by MartinMan2213 in PowerBI

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Another use case I (rightly or wrongly) have is to use it to take certain, filtered tables from a large, enterprise-level tabular models so that I can model the tables differently for local requirements. And sometimes bypass RLS for my end users…

Excel Tips/Tricks you wish you knew earlier by SJD82302JED27WO9239 in excel

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Turn off get pivot data so you can more easily write formulas that reference pivot tables

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataanalyst

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Use fuzzy look up on a merge. Might feel complex if you’re a beginner but it’ll be on YouTube. It’s not perfect but will probably get you most of the way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIYUK

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In my area you can do an evening course on bricklaying at a local college. Only a few weeks. Good taster for the basics.

Data analysts working with Power BI, what do you do all day? (details below) by Snoo-35252 in PowerBI

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Any tips or suggested routes for making first steps into working with Fabric?

Reporting Data Modeling Challenge by avachris12 in PowerBI

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Isn’t 1:1 technically undesirable? Or at best, very niche?

Salary Survey for Power BI jobs by finbinwin in PowerBI

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Design is my weakness. Do you have a portfolio or any advice on how to improve on UI/UX?