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Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:
Our values are simple - we treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves. So:
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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
Choose a specific course, or stay on this page to see all of our Power BI training.
Course:
Can't see the dates/course type that you want? Create your own onsite course (and tailor the content too!).
If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.
Here are some comments we've received about our Power BI + training. You can see all of our 528 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"I thought the online format worked really well. The course was well-paced and covered all the topics I needed to enable me to fill in the gaps in my Power BI knowledge (having used it a little to date). I feel entirely confident to re-create reports that I have already been working with and also to create new ones with improved design and complexity."
Matthew Tierney
United Endeavour Trust
"It was great that, as an experienced group we were able to get through the content quickly. The trainer saw that as an opportunity to teach us more than was on the original syllabus, so added value for us, the customer. Thanks."
Paul Griffiths
IQUW (was Agora)
"Great trainer. Precise information given and good tips for us to use going forward with our own work"
Junedul Alom
Torus62 Ltd
"Thoroughly enjoyed this course and the trainer was absolutely fantastic."
Abbie Edwards
Grosvenor Food & AgTech
"Trainer was really good and had expansive knowledge of Power BI. The course went really well and was not made overly complicated, so was easy to understand."
Lee Smith
The Phoenix Group
"Trainer was excellent at explaining and teaching, friendly and helpful. Also good flow of material and progression of topics. I also think it was a good idea to check technical set-up before the course."
Michaela Hoffmannova
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)
The main Microsoft Power BI tools are as follows:
Application | Notes |
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Power BI Desktop | You can use Power BI Desktop to create visual, interactive reports which you can then publish to your organisation's website (or to a public site). You can also use Power BI to create printable paginated reports. |
Power Query | This is included within Power BI, and allows you to transform data as you're loading it. |
Power BI Service | This allows you to view reports that you've published online, to create shared workspaces and apps and to pin tiles to dashboards. |
Power BI Mobile | Use this part of Power BI Desktop to create reports to be viewed on mobile devices. |
We run the following introductory courses in the Microsoft Power BI tools:
Course | What you'll learn |
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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. |
Not sure of the difference between standard on-screen interactive Power BI reports and paginated reports? We've summarised them in this handy blog.
In addition, we have the following more advanced courses listed on our site:
Course | Notes |
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Learn how to create measures and calculated columns using DAX. If you're not sure what DAX is or how or why you'd use it, read this helpful guide. | |
Learn some more advanced features of creating Power BI reports, including bookmarks, tooltips and dynamic formatting. | |
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 two three-day fast-track courses:
Course | Notes |
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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. | |
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. |
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Contact method | Details |
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Phone | Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone! |
Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours. | |
Web | Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help! |
Skills you want to test |
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Power BI Desktop - legacy |
Power BI Desktop (new for 2024-25) |
Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Power BI:
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Power BI and DAX blogs |
In addition to our classroom and online Power BI training courses, we also have the following learning resources:
Resource | Notes |
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Tips and tricks | Useful tips and tricks to make Power BI easier |
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