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The sort of report you'll learn to create on our Power BI courses, summarising someone's first 20 years (!) as a Wise Owl. You can interact with any of its 5 pages.

3-day intensive Power BI training course

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

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

Classroom (London)
£1,895

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,595

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£1,295

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

Although you don't need to have used Power BI to attend the course, you'll get much more out of this course if you've already started to use Power BI in anger.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Fast track Power BI course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
09-11 Dec	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
17-19 Dec	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
20-22 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
19-21 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
17-19 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	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

Fast track Power BI - Course Contents

This course is designed for people who tick the following boxes:

You've tried teaching yourself Power BI, but realise that you'd learn much more quickly on a formal course (either that or you're self-taught at Power BI and suspect that you've missed lots of tips and tricks along the way).
You're normally pretty quick at picking up software, and are happy to cover a lot of material in three days.

If this sounds like you, our three-day fast-track Power BI course could be ideal. It aims to cover all of the material from our (already busy) two-day Introduction to Power BI and a fair few topics from our two-day Advanced Power BI (Reports) course and also from our two-day Advanced Power BI (Data) course in three busy days.

This fast-track course combines topics from the following other Wise Owl courses:

From our INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI course

Basic reports

Getting data
Basic visuals
Shapes, text boxes and images

Data sources

SQL Server / databases
Excel / CSV files
Websites

Creating data models

Relationships
Hiding fields and tables
Renaming fields/tables

Working with visuals

The formatting pane
Conditional formatting
Visual interactions

Charts

Creating charts
Bubble and other charts
Grouping data
Small multiples

Matrices

Row and column headers
Drill-down

Dashboard visuals

Gauges
Cards
KPIs

Query editor

Filtering rows
Manipulating columns
Working with data types
Creating new columns

Filtering data

Slicers
Using the filter pane

Drill-through

Adding drillthrough filters
Creating back buttons
Button drill-through

Azure maps

Latitude and longitude
Creating basic maps
Bubble, heat and cluster maps
Tweaking maps

Calculated columns

Adding columns
IF and SWITCH
The RELATED function

Basic publishing

Power BI Service
Workspaces
Dashboards and tiles
Lineage view

From our ADVANCED POWER BI REPORTS course

Custom visuals

Ways to import
Pinning custom visuals
Infographics (picture charts)

Tooltips

Tooltip backgrounds
Dynamic report tooltips
Visual header tooltips

Conditional formatting

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

Dynamic display if time

Format properties as expressions
Examples of dynamic formatting

Quick measures

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

Bookmarks

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

Dynamic page navigation

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

Decomposition tree if time

How it works
Formatting the parts
Locking levels

From our ADVANCED POWER BI DATA course

Column transforms

Splitting (3 methods)
Extracting data
Merging columns

Creating columns

Columns by example
Custom columns in M
Conditional columns
Index columns

Combining queries

Combining files from folders
Merging queries
Fuzzy merge
Appending queries

Manipulation transforms

Pivoting and unpivoting
Grouping queries
Transposing data

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
547 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:

"The course is full on but very informative and the course files are great. I have trained with Wise Owl before and found it great."

Shirley Grayson (Salvation Army Housing Association)

"I found this course extremely useful and easy to follow - our trainer was stupendous at taking his time to explain the content and monitoring our practice/responding to any questions. My colleagues recommended Wise Owl and now that I’ve taken the course, I highly recommend it to others."

Jenna de St. Jorre (MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes))

"An excellent instructor, who is obviously keen on the use of Power BI. He answered every question asked - reflective of his knowledge of Power BI. The 300+ page training document is excellent too. This was my second course with Wise Owl and likely won't be my last."

Ian Grant (Collinson Group)

"An excellent trainer, he was effective, attentive, informative and extremely knowledgeable. I got so much from the course and it is going to massively improve implementation of my skills into my job role."

Rebekah Davie (Signature Senior Lifestyle Ltd)

"This course was exactly what I needed to get up to speed on PowerBI, and I now feel confident in working with it in my role. The offer of continued help from the trainer if we were to e-mail was greatly appreciated too. I had never used PowerBI before and needed something that took me from newbie to reasonable user in a short timeframe, and this ticked all the boxes."

Scot Hickinbottom (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust)

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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