Power BI Data Analysis and Visualization

Power BI Data Analysis and Visualization provides a roadmap to vendor choices and highlights why Microsoft’s Power BI is a very viable, cost effective option for data visualization. The book covers the fundamentals and most commonly used features of Power BI, but also includes an in-depth discussion of advanced Power BI features such as natural language queries; embedding Power BI dashboards; and live streaming data. It discusses real solutions to extract data from the ERP application, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and also offers ways to host the Power BI Dashboard as an Azure application, extracting data from popular data sources like Microsoft SQL Server and open-source PostgreSQL.

Authored by Microsoft experts, this book uses real-world coding samples and screenshots to spotlight how to create reports, embed them in a webpage, view them across multiple platforms, and more. Business owners, IT professionals, data scientists, and analysts will benefit from this thorough presentation of Power BI and its functions.

Suren Machiraju is Technical Business Partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he provides technology guidance and designs software solutions to help partners achieve organization objectives. Previously he was Engineering Manager, Azure Services at Microsoft; the founding member/manager of the Azure Customer Advisory Team; and Group Program Manager of the Connected Systems, Windows Server Customer Advisory Team. He is an innovator with over 20 patents relating to Electronic Document Interchange and Transport Protocols.

Suraj Gaurav is a cloud technologist and previously worked at Microsoft as Principal Engineering Manager where he led a team of talented engineers who built and ran the Exchange datacenter services. Prior to that, he worked on the Commerce Platform where he designed the first consumption based billing model for Microsoft which was used by Azure for its commercial launch in February 2010. Suraj specializes in cloud services, commerce transactions, B2B messaging, EDI, and healthcare protocols.