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Advanced Power BI Reports Training Course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,450

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,095

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£950

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

To attend this course you must be familiar with creating Power BI reports, and use Power BI on a regular basis.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Advanced Power BI Reports course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
10-11 Dec	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
09-10 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
13-14 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
13-14 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
14-15 Apr	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Advanced Power BI Reports training course contents

If you've got the hang of the basic Power BI software, take two days out of your busy life to delve more into Microsoft's powerful BI software tool. On this course you'll learn many things, including:

Lots of ways to apply conditional formatting to visuals
How (and when) to use the decomposition tree, key influencers tool, smart narratives and other standard visuals
Lots of ideas for custom visuals that you can use to enhance your reports
How to use bookmarks, page navigation and advanced drill-down features to make your reports easier to use
How to use report tooltips to make your reports easier to interpret

The idea is to build on what you learned on our two-day introduction to Power BI course. If you're more interested in loading, transforming and manipulating data you should probably look at our two-day Advanced Power BI (Data) course instead.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Advanced tables

Showing URLs as icons
Images in tables
Sorting multiple columns
Preventing data grouping

Conditional formatting

Gradients and rules
Based on a field value
Icons and data bars

Dynamic display

Format properties as expressions
Examples of dynamic formatting

Analytics

Adding constant lines
Adding trendlines
Showing anomalies

Decomposition tree

How it works
Formatting the parts
Locking levels

Other visuals

Key influencers
Ribbon charts
Waterfall charts

Q & A visuals

Setting synonyms
Adding FAQs
Training Q&A visuals

Tooltips

Tooltip backgrounds
Dynamic report tooltips
Visual header tooltips

Bookmarks

Data and display properties
Spotlighting and hiding visuals
Bookmark navigators
Some design case studies

Quick measures

Comparison against single items
Line chart averages
Listing selected items
Running totals

Narratives

The smart narrative visual
Text boxes and values
Analysing differences

What-if parameters

Numeric range parameters
Field parameters

Dynamic page navigation

Page navigators
Page navigation buttons
Controlling with slicers
Drill-through with slicers

Advanced drill-through

Category vs summarized explained
Drill-through between reports
Disabling drill-through
Mouse buttons/action buttons

Advanced Slicers

Sync slicers
Buttons to apply changes
Tricks with slicers

Custom visuals

Ways to import
Pinning custom visuals
Infographics (picture charts)

More custom visuals if time

The play axis visual
Synoptic panels
Chiclet slicer

Themes if time

Changing themes
Building new themes

Mobile view if time

The Power BI app
Creating a mobile view

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
537 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Totally brilliant course, the tutor was fabulous. Would certainly recommend :-)"

Wendy Wood (Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA))

"I really enjoyed the course and the IT worked well. It was really well delivered by an extremely knowledgeable trainer, who kept us engaged with his humour. He was willing to go above and beyond the course contents to help us."

James Parsonage (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC))

"The course was really useful and informative. I liked how it was interactive, and you could code/experiment as you went along. I also found the exercises a useful way to continue to solidify what you learnt."

Liz Gabriel (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG))

"Really enjoyed the course, it had so so many examples that are going to be really easy to refer back to. I enjoyed breaking things down to the understanding of why something works, thanks!"

Holly Fry (The Phoenix Group)

"Course was great. First time I have worked with Power BI. Our trainer was great, very helpful and patient. Thank you :)"

Natalie Morris (Torus62 Ltd)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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