How to Get More from Your Performance Data with Microsoft’s PowerBI – Susan Hostetter and John White

Abstract:

This paper and presentation will outline the process to create a Performance Dashboard in Microsoft’s PowerBI that will enable an organization to see their data in new ways. PowerBI lets you upload, model and create measures to help you explore your data with visualizations organized in reports and dashboards. This paper will outline the processes for creating a dashboard in the PowerBI application. It will cover how to:

• Import and format data tables
• Create a dashboard
•  Create and format measures
• Create and use data slicers

Additionally, the paper and presentation will discuss the challenges of:

• Data transformation
• Data surfacing
• Learning the application controls

And the benefits of:

• Building a chart once for many datasets
• Quickly creating a dashboard without IT resources
• Communicating important data to stakeholders

PMI Talent Triangle: Technical Project Management

Speakers

• John White

  

• Susan Hostetter