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Power BI Team Training

This isn’t some ordinary Power BI training. When you train with us, you learn real-world techniques, gain in-demand skills, and experience a magical transformation that drives adoption success.

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What to Expect at Skypoint’s
Corporate Power BI Trainings

Unbeatable knowledge and close guidance in an interactive and collaborative environment.

As a certified Microsoft Delivery Partner, we bring our in-depth knowledge and expertise to help businesses create effective data visualizations that improve operational efficiency and lower overall costs.

We ensure our solutions are tailored specifically for you, starting with understanding exactly what challenges and goals you have in mind before designing efficient workflow systems from scratch. We’ll provide ongoing support through each step of implementation – regardless of industry or company size. 

Our partnership with Microsoft, combined with our experience and expertise in Power BI, enables us to teach organizations how to leverage data visualization and deliver innovative automation solutions to streamline operations, and unlock employee potential. 

Attend any of our free Power BI “In a Day” workshops for a preview of what partnering with Skypoint can look like for your organization

A hands-on 1-day workshop covering the full spectrum capabilities of Power BI and the Power BI service.

Morning: Buildin’ Reports

  • Intro to Power BI & Desktop Overview
  • Power BI Desktop – Content
  • Lunch
  • Power BI Desktop – Content (Cont.)


Afternoon: Sharin’ Reports

  • Power BI Service Overview
  • Power BI Service Content
  • Review and discussion
  • Open Lab

A rigorous 1-day or 2-day training course for aspiring report developers and data professionals.

Day One – Basic Report Building

  • Introduction to Power BI development stages
  • Introduction to data visualization best practices
  • Building a chart driven report using best practices
  • Lunch
  • Building a table-driven report with conditional formatting and drill through
  • Introduction to publishing
  • Data wrangling primer (extract, clean, and load two Excel tables)
  • Q&A


Day Two – Data Wrangling and Modeling

  • Review of Power BI development stages
  • Accessing Data Sources (Excel sheets/named-ranges, CSV files, and folders of workbooks)
  • Basic transformations of data sources (date/text parsing, filtering, pivoting)
  • Lunch
  • Intermediate transformation of data sources (joining, appending, and data structures)
  • Introduction to dimensional modeling
  • Setting relationships and building simple DAX measures
  • Q&A

A 1-day instructor-led class to develop a foundational set of skills in the DAX querying language.

Morning

  • Introduction to DAX and Dimensional Modeling
  • Understanding and Creating Simple Measures
  • Concepts and Basic Application of CALCULATE()
  • Concepts and Basic Application of Iterators

Afternoon

  • Intermediate Measures Combining CALCULATE() & Iterators
  • Skill Integration with Simplified Time Intelligence
  • Synthesis of Skills with Full-Time Intelligence

Make Everyone a Citizen Developer and Achieve Rapid Transformation

Power BI moves fast. Your team is doing what you can to be more data-driven and more data literate, but you’re not where you want to be with organizational adoption and transformation.

Our data wizards love nothing more than sharing our wisdom to empower teams like yours with informative, interactive, instructor-led courses and workshops. When you learn Power BI with Skypoint, it’s an unequaled learning experience that combines consulting and pragmatic training. We’re not just your trainer, we’re your strategic partner.

Meet Skypoint’s Lead Instructor

Brian Grant is a masterful Senior Analytics Consultant by day, and a Power BI legend by night. A passion for Power BI drove him to holistically master the tool from all three perspectives: M, DAX, and the visualization layer.

Brian is a constant teacher who leads Power BI training sessions, while sharing his wealth of expertise through video and blogging resources.

He teaches visualization that is focused on simplicity and understandability of the right measures, paired with a clean compositional layout. Brian mentors all Skypoint trainers and consultants on data visualization practices.

Get more of Brian’s training content on our blog and YouTube channel.

Ready to become a Power BI wizard?

Fill out the form to discuss Skypoint’s trainings or how we can customize training for your team. If you want to control your own Power BI destiny, we’re happy to develop self-service training videos or courses and deliver “train the trainer” sessions.