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Power Platform Training Courses

Learn how to create reports in Power BI, create mobile or tablet apps in Power Apps and how to automate your work in Power Automate (all these are members of the Power Platform suite of tools from Microsoft).

We currently run the following scheduled Power Platform courses:

Introduction to Power BI Adv. Power BI Reports Adv. Power BI Data Fast-track Power BI Introduction to DAX Fast track DAX for Power BI Power Automate Desktop Introduction to Power Automate Advanced Power Automate Fast-track Power Automate

Not exactly the course contents you want? Why not consider organising your own tailored Power Platform course)?

More about our Power Platform training

The main Microsoft Power Platform tools are as follows:

Application	Notes
Power BI	Create visual, interactive reports which you can then publish to your organisation's website (or to a public site).
Power Apps	Create applications to run on a mobile phone or tablet, with the ability to write back to the underlying data sources.
Power Automate	Automate time-consuming manual tasks within Power BI, whether on your desktop (with Power Automate Desktop) or in the cloud (with Power Automate).

You can see a comparison of Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop in this blog, to help you choose which one you might be interested in.

Our Power Platform Courses

We run the following introductory Power Platform courses:

Course	What you'll learn
Introduction to Power BI	How to create visually interactive reports, including importing data, transforming it using Query Editor, creating visuals such as tables, matrices and charts, filtering data (for example, using slicers) and creating calculated columns and basic maps.
Power Apps	How to create applications for mobile phones and tablets.
Power Automate Desktop	How to create flows to automate things that you do at your computer.
Power Automate	How to create flows to automate things that you do in the cloud, such as linking to SharePoint and Teams.

In addition, we have the following more advanced courses listed on our site:

Course	Notes
DAX	Learn how to create measures and calculated columns using DAX.
Advanced Power BI (Reports)	Learn some more advanced features of creating Power BI reports, including bookmarks, tooltips and dynamic formatting.
Advanced Power BI (Data)	Learn more about some of the advanced features for transforming data in Power Query, as well as other advanced topics to do with data modelling in Power BI.

Finally, for those wanting to accelerate their learning we run the following three-day fast-track courses:

Course	Notes
Fast-track Power BI	Attempting to cover all of the two-day Introduction to Power BI and parts of the two-day Advanced Power BI courses (Reports and Data) in three busy days.
Fast-track DAX	In a similar vein, this three-day course aims to combine our two-day Introduction to DAX and two-day Introduction to Power BI courses.
Fast-track Power Automate	All of the contents of our two-day Introduction to Power Automate course, plus adaptive cards, subflows, Microsoft Graph and much more on expressions.

10 things our courses include

Each of our scheduled courses (whether classroom or online) includes:

Small course sizes - we have a maximum of 6 people on each classroom or online course.
A trainer! And not just anyone - our courses are only ever given by full-time Wise Owls.
Full colour courseware and exercises of oustanding quality.
A no cancellation guarantee (once you've booked and confirmed your training course, it will run).
A one gigabyte USB stick, containing course files, answers to exercises and (by the end of the course) your answers too, together with a nice pen.
Unofficial help after the course (although we don't have a dedicated post-course support line, in practice trainers will be happy to answer the odd ad hoc question after a course has taken place).
A certificate sent out digitally or in paper form (your choice) after each course, together with (for tailored courses) the trainer's thoughts on how the course went.

In addition, our classroom courses also include:

A computer for each delegate (obviously).
Lunch out each day at a local restaurant (chosen on the day of the course, after discussion!).
Unlimited refreshments during the day, including Tassimo or Nespresso coffee and a range of biscuits and snacks to keep you going through those dark afternoon hours.

Still not convinced? You can read hundreds of testimonials to the quality of our training (all attributed and added in the last 3 years.

Scheduled Power Platform training dates

Here are the next Power Platform courses we have scheduled:

Course	Dates	Days	Venue	Price	Booking
Fast track Power BI and DAX	Mon/Wed 29th Apr/1st May 2024	29 Apr-01 May	3	Online	£1,295	Book places
DAX for Power BI	Wed/Thu 01-02 May 2024	01-02 May	2	Online	£950	Book places
Introduction to Power BI	Thu/Fri 02-03 May 2024	02-03 May	2	London	£1,350	Book places
Advanced Power BI Reports	Thu/Fri 09-10 May 2024	09-10 May	2	Online	£950	Book places
Introduction to Power BI	Thu/Fri 16-17 May 2024	16-17 May	2	Online	£825	Book places
Advanced Power BI Data	Mon/Tue 20-21 May 2024	20-21 May	2	Online	£950	Book places
DAX for Power BI	Mon/Tue 20-21 May 2024	20-21 May	2	Online	£950	Book places
Introduction to Power Automate	Mon/Tue 20-21 May 2024	20-21 May	2	Online	£825	Book places
Power Automate Desktop	Tue/Wed 28-29 May 2024	28-29 May	2	Online	£825	Book places
DAX for Power BI	Tue/Wed 04-05 June 2024	04-05 Jun	2	Manchester	£1,095	Book places

All prices exclude VAT. If you can't see the dates you want, don't forget that you always have the option of arranging onsite training at your offices (we'll even provide the computers and projector).

Other Power Platform training resources

There are many ways in which we can help you learn Power Platform!

Exercises

We have exercises published on our website for all of the main Power Platform software applications.

Power BI exercises

DAX exercises

Power Automate Desktop

Power Automate

Power Apps

Blogs

Have a look at our blogs on the various parts of Microsoft's Power Platform.

Power BI and DAX blogs

Blogs on Power Apps

Blogs on Power Automate

Blogs for Power Automate Desktop

Videos

Take some time to watch some of our Power Platform videos.

DAX

Power BI

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