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Introduction to Power BI 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)
£1,350

Classroom (Manchester)
£995

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£825

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

Power BI is a standalone application, so there are no pre-requisites for attending this course.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Introduction to Power BI course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
09-10 Dec	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
15-16 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
03-04 Feb	09:30-16:30	Manchester	£995	Book
17-18 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
25-26 Feb	09:30-16:30	London	£1,350	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

Introduction to Power BI training course contents

Our online Introduction to Power BI course gets you up and running with Microsoft's increasingly influential Business Intelligence tool. Over the two days that the course lasts you'll learn how to:

load data from data sources like Excel, CSV files, SQL Server and even websites
create and format visuals (and get them to interact with each other)
create charts, matrices, gauges, KPIs and custom visuals
use Query Editor to transform your data before loading it
create calculated columns in tables
create slicers, filters and drill-downs to choose data to view
get an introduction to creating maps in Power BI
publish your reports to the basic Power BI service

The idea is that you will learn everything that you need to know to create and publish basic reports using Power BI Desktop!

The contents of this course are as follows:

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

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
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 trainer was very informative and able to provide answers to any additional questions."

Emily Weston (MLCS3 Ltd)

"The course was recommended within the company as Wise Owl has an outstanding reputation."

Krzysztof Fronia (Coloplast Ltd)

"Trainer was fantastic. Really engaging two day course!"

James Wood (Great Western Railway (GWR))

"Great course, provided by a great trainer, who was really knowledgeable and was also happy to answer the many questions that I had."

Charlie Bruce (LGT Wealth Management UK LLP)

"Another super course from the Wise Owl team. The pace and content were good and there wasn't any dead time. As an intro course I now have enough information to create meaningful reports and the manual is an excellent desk aid. I've used it several times this week! The pre course test was really worthwhile because my organisation's security is very tight. Having a work around to fall back on was worth sorting before the date. Purely because I've used Wise Owl for SQL training and rate the trainers. The team really do know their stuff and train from a position of knowledge."

Clare Hill (Hertfordshire Constabulary)

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.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

Advanced Power BI Reports

Advanced

2 day course

Advanced Power BI Data

Advanced

2 day course

DAX for Power BI RECOMMENDED

Intermediate

2 day course

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Introduction to Power BI Training Course

Course schedule

Introduction to Power BI training course contents

Basic reports

Data sources

Creating data models

Working with visuals

Charts

Matrices

Dashboard visuals

Query editor

Filtering data

Drill-through

Azure maps

Calculated columns

Basic publishing

Why Choose Us?

What other people have said

How our training courses work

What you'll need

When you book a place

What you won't need

The start of the course

After the course

Related Courses

Advanced Power BI Reports

Advanced Power BI Data

DAX for Power BI RECOMMENDED

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