Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence)

What is Power BI?

Power BI is an interactive data visualization software product developed by Microsoft with a primary focus on business intelligence.

New to Power BI? There is more information located here; https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/end-user-basic-concepts. There are also many LinkedIn Learnings available such as "Power BI Essential Training."

 

Where Are Power BI Reports Located?

Navigating to the Reporting Table of Contents

• Navigate to WyoCloud and click on the Reporting Table of Contents tile under My Profile.

• Once you have located the Table of Contents, click on any report under the "Business Intelligence and Data Visualizations" heading.

Using Reports in PowerBI

Filtering on PowerBI Reports

• The filters pane on the right side of reports will show any applied filters, and allows users to further filter down reports

• Users are also able to reset filters utilizing the green reverse arrow

• Some reports will also allow you to further expand the data. Right click on a numeric value, and select show data point as a table.

• Below shows the results of the data points as a table

 

Subscribing (Scheduling) to PowerBI Reports

• Users can schedule reports to automatically run. Navigate to the report to be scheduled.
• The filtering used on the report when you click "Subscribe to report" will be the filters on the scheduled report.

• This will open up your subscriptions, click on create a subscription.

• Enter the required information below:
  • Subscription Name
  • Start Date
  • Repeat
  • Schedule Time
  • Time Zone

 

Exporting PowerBI Reports

Users can export data from Power BI into Excel to further anaylze.

• Hover over the report to get the menu options to appear in the top-right corner.
• Click on the three dots, and then click "Export Data".

• Export data using the "Data with Current Layout" option.