Best Practices & Feature Reviews

Master best practices and beginner tips for Power BI. Review key features and functionality for high quality reporting

An outline of this mini series module

This mini series module reviews many best practice tips when starting out and learning Power BI. Most techniques showcased are for the beginner to intermediate user of Power BI. There are many key tips that are crucial to learn and implement well when starting to work within Power BI. This module of short form tutorials covers many of these important development techniques in detail. Also summarized are many unique features that can be effectively used within Power BI for more compelling analytical work and data visualizations.

Best Practices & Feature Reviews module can also be accessed with a purchase of an Enterprise DNA Membership or Center of Excellence License.

Details of what you will learn during this mini series module
  • Learn - the key 'must-know' best practices when starting with Power BI
  • Understand - the most important areas of Power BI Desktop
  • Learn - how to optimize models, using all parts of Power BI in combination
  • Review - the unique features that make Power BI so great for data analysis
  • Learn - best practices when writing beginner to advanced formulas
  • Master - the beginner techniques before moving onto advanced development


What you get with this mini series module

  • Over 3 hours of video tutorials
  • Over 12 short form video tutorials covering best practices and feature reviews
  • An accompanying resource download for appropriate video tutorials
  • Resources made available for review and to use when replicating the showcased techniques
Here are the specifics for this mini series module
Learn how to;
  • Master the basics and get your models setup for advanced analytical work
  • Use key functionality within Power BI Desktop
  • Implement the right features at the correct times when building reports
  • Use Power BI as an advanced analytics and visualization tool
  • Utilize all areas and functionality within Power BI


Testimonials
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Course Curriculum


  Introduction
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  Best Practices
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  Administering Power BI in the Service
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Your Instructor


Sam McKay
Sam McKay

Sam very early on saw the immense opportunity of using Power BI to create analytical solutions. After years of developing some advanced analysis and tools in excel, he was amazed that he could re-create most of those things in about 10% of the time with Power BI.

He is the founder and CEO at Enterprise DNA, a business intelligence training & consultancy business primarily focused on driving better decision making within organisations by empowering individuals and teams to transform raw data into unmatched insights using Microsoft's Power BI suite of tools.

Sam has a strong history in Finance, previously working at ANZ, PIMCO, and Fonterra. He is also a CFA charterholder, achieving the designation in 2011.

He has a passion for building highly scalable analytical solutions within organisations, and wants to see others learn how to do the same.


Frequently Asked Questions


How long do I have access to the course?
You will have access to the course for as long as your Enterprise DNA membership or CoE license is active.
Can I purchase a single course instead of the full Enterprise DNA membership?
The option to purchase a single course has been discontinued. To access any of our courses, you will need to upgrade to full membership here.
Do you offer one-off support or coaching?
All support around Power BI and Enterprise DNA's online training content now occurs at the Enterprise DNA Forum. You must have an Enterprise DNA Membership or CoE access to receive support.
What if I need to train my team?
We recommend exploring Enterprise DNA Center of Excellence platform. To learn more, see here.

Passionate about empowering users of Power BI

"My goal is to teach others that you have almost unlimited analytical power when harnessing all the features in Power BI.

Through training across a number of different mediums, I've reached over 100,000 Power BI users, showing them a range of tips and tricks in Power BI development.

I'm a true believer that Power BI is the future of analysis and know individuals with the right training can now create advanced analytics in a scalable way that can have a real impact in the way insights are found and consumed within organisations."

Sam McKay, CFA - Founder & CEO, Enterprise DNA

"Sam and EnterpriseDNA have taken my PowerBI to the next level. The courses are excellently well presented. Sam's extensive experience in building BI tools means the tutorials and webinars are always relevant and always hit the mark. Enterprise DNA is a 5* resource - I highly recommend."- David Nightingale, Johannesburg South Africa   "I came across Enterprise DNA through one of the free YouTube videos. After getting a lot of valuable info for free, I felt ready to dig deeper into PowerBi in general and DAX in particular, and the membership here certainly has given me good value for money therefore I highly recommend signing a membership." - Erik Jacobsen, Scandinavian   "I have been in the Analytics and Data Warehouse space for about 20 years and have been a serious advocate of Power BI from it’s inception. I am excited to become a member of this forum, having review as many of Sam’s vidoes as I could and have enefited significantly from his tutelage." - Brad - Canada