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Introduction to Power BI Service
Power BI Service is offered by Microsoft, a collection of software services, relevant applications and connectors that work together to help the users. It offers these collective services to help in creating, sharing, and consuming business insights, which helps its users and their business effectively. The Power BI Service comes under the SaaS, Software as a Service part of Power BI. In this service, the created dashboards help in maintaining the data and performing meaningful analysis with their help. Dashboards consist of different components such as tiles for viewing reports and are connected to datasets to integrate all the important data in one place.
Creating Reports in Power BI Service
Generally, reports are created in the Power BI Desktop and then published to the Power BI Service, however, we can also make reports and dashboards in Power BI using the online data. Power BI service has applications to support their creation.
A Power BI report offers a multi-perspective view into a dataset using visualizations and insights from that dataset. Advantages of using reports are that they are highly interactive and customizable as they can be of multiple pages, and the users get relevant information which is continuously updated.
An example of a report created using Power BI Service is displayed below.
After the completion of a report, we can make use of the Power BI service to publish the report and make it available for everyone who has a Power BI license. In order to access the Power BI service and publish or upload the reports, we require a Power BI account.
The created reports and dashboards can be shared with end users and mobile devices can be used to view and interact with them. Users can also collaborate on workspaces to build reports and dashboards.
Concepts of Power BI Service for designers
Designers can make use of the Power BI service to produce reports and dashboards using its features and services. The workflow of a designer starts by creating reports in the Power BI Desktop and publishing them to the Power BI service, where they can be modified. We can also create dashboards based on the reports we have created in the Power BI service.
The major components of the Power BI services are: dashboards, reports, workbooks, datasets and dataflows. They are organized into workspaces and are created in capacities.
Capacities are a set of resources used for hosting and delivering Power BI content, whereas workspaces are created on these capacities. Workspaces are containers for all the elements in the Power BI service. Both capacities and workspaces can be shared or reserved and personalized for use.
Tutorial to get started with the Power BI service
In this section, we will discuss the steps needed to be performed for using some of the features of the Power BI service:
Sign up for the Power BI service
The users need a Power BI Pro or Premium User License for creating content in Power BI. To get a free license we need to complete the wizard, then open the Power BI service, select the Me icon and choose the Buy Pro now option or Try paid features for free.
We need to transform, shape, and model data before starting to design a report. The data can be collected from multiple sources. Let us consider the example of taking the data from an Excel file.
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