Power BI Desktop: from data to dashboards
Automate reporting in your team: in two or three days participants go from raw data in Power BI Desktop, through a proper data model and DAX measures, to interactive dashboards your management will actually use. All exercises on your company's real data.
Key facts
Prices are in EUR, excluding VAT, for the whole group. Contact us to confirm the teaching language, dates and time zone.
For teams moving reporting to Power BI
Analysts & controllers
People who know Excel and now need Power BI Desktop skills to build models and reports.
Reporting teams
Groups replacing monthly slide-and-spreadsheet packs with live, interactive dashboards.
Companies adopting Power BI
Organizations rolling out Power BI Service and wanting one correct way of working from day one.
Self-service reporting
Departments that want to answer their own questions without waiting in the IT queue.
What participants learn
Power BI Desktop
The interface, workflow and building blocks: reports, visuals, pages and the Power BI ecosystem.
Power Query
Downloading and cleaning data from files and systems with repeatable, refreshable queries.
Data model & DAX
Relations, calendar table, measures and time intelligence — calculations that scale across reports.
Dashboard design
Choosing the right visuals, layout and KPI patterns — dashboards people actually read.
Power BI Service
Publishing reports, workspaces, sharing and refreshing datasets with your team.
Working habits
A repeatable process from raw source to published report — documented and ready to reuse.
Three modules, day by day
In the 2-day format modules 1–2 share the first day; the 3-day version adds a full day of DAX and Service practice. Final agenda is agreed with you before the training.
- How Power BI works: the data flow from source to published report
- Interface and building blocks: reports, pages, visuals
- First report: loading data, choosing the right visuals, cross-filtering
- Design patterns for readable management dashboards
- Connecting to sources: files, databases, web, systems
- Cleaning and shaping data: data types, errors, transformations
- Merging and appending queries — one solid dataset
- Workshop: preparing your company's dataset end to end
- Star model: relations and the calendar table
- DAX measures: sums, ratios, time intelligence
- Publishing to Power BI Service: workspaces, sharing, scheduled refresh
- Workshop: a complete dashboard published and refreshed
The training program is flexible. Before the workshops, we can adapt the scope, difficulty level, examples and training duration to your team’s needs.
Frequently asked questions
The program core is the same. The 3-day version adds a full day of deeper DAX practice and hands-on work with Power BI Service. Recommended if your team will maintain reports on its own.
A laptop with the free Power BI Desktop installed. For the publishing module a Power BI Pro license is useful, but everything can be demonstrated without it.
No programming background is needed. DAX is a formula language similar to Excel formulas — we teach it from scratch, step by step.
It helps, but it is not required. The training starts from the basics of working with data and builds everything up on your company's real examples.
Yes — every participant who completes the final hands-on task receives a certificate of completion.
Before the training, every participant receives access to the complete 13-hour online Excel course “Formulas, Pivot Tables & Maps”.
Participants also keep comprehensive materials (around 100 pages), 30 exercises with solutions and all workshop files — everything ready to reuse after the training.
Book by phone or email
Ask about available dates, agenda details or group pricing — a short call or an e-mail is all it takes.
+48 500 196 861 Mon–Fri, 9:00–17:00 Warsaw time (CET/CEST) contact@maps-for-excel.com