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Welcome to the course.

Really excited to get started.

So we're going to begin our journey with the power by service.

So as I said in the introduction, we basically have two main products to the Power BI and what we've

got is the Power BI desktop and we've got the Power BI service.

So the two products work hand in hand.

However, you can use one product without the other, but we'll get into that a little bit later in

the course.

So as I said, we're going to start with the Power BI service just to get an understanding of the Power

BI service before we move into the Power BI desktop.

Okay, I'm on the Power BI Splash page at the moment, so to get to this you just go to Power BI dot

Microsoft.com.

Once you're on this page you'll see that there's a lot of useful information around Power BI So if you

look at the top navigation, you can see this thing such as an overview, there's products, pricing,

solutions, partners and so on.

So a lot of interesting information you can go through.

However, the part that I want to show you is actually this up here, which is the free button.

So what you will see is that you can actually sign up for Power BI for free.

And to do that, what you need is a work email address.

So please make sure you don't use a Gmail account or a Hotmail account or one of those free email accounts.

Power BI will not allow you to use those, but you can use a work email address to sign up.

Just one thing to look out for.

If you are working in an enterprise or a larger organization that already has a power BI enterprise

license, you may well find that it will just notify the system administrator that you want access,

and then it's really up to the system administrator to give you access.

So just be aware of that.

However, once you've signed up, you've got your credentials, you've got your sign, and the next

part is we can just sign in from here.

So it's really easy to be able to access.

Now the system already knows my credentials, so when I click on the sign in button, we're going to

go straight into the Power BI service.

You may be requested for an email password and the usual credentials to get in.

Okay, but let's move on with that.

Let's click on the sign in button.

So once you've clicked on the sign in button, you're now brought into the Power BI service.

So you'll see you'll be greeted with the home screen.

So the home screen gives you access to your most used sort of report.

Now, when you first using this, you may see that there's no content in this.

So obviously as you start using reports or creating reports, this will then start to get populated.

But you'll see that there's some recommended reports that you can easily access just by clicking on

them.

Also, if you go down, you'll see that there's a list of your recent reports.

You can have a list of favorites as well.

And also something called My Apps that we'll speak about just now.

So your home screen is pretty easy to navigate and really just gives you access to those reports.

If we move on, you'll see on the left hand side that we have a navigation bar.

Now, the first part of this is the ability to create reports.

Now you can create reports just within the Power BI service.

Now traditionally the Power BI service was not as powerful as the Power BI desktop, but over recent

times as Microsoft has done more and more updates, this line has become a little bit more blurred with

that.

The Power BI service is actually quite powerful.

So in the next lesson we're going to be looking at how we can load some data into Power BI service and

just create a quick report before we move on to the Power BI desktop.

But this is something that you're going to have to experiment with sort of see when you would want to

use the Power BI service or when you would want to use the Power BI desktop.

Okay.

So as I said, this is where we're going to create a report a bit later.

We're going to add some data and create that report.

The next navigation item we've got is the ability to browse your existing reports and different data

sets that you've got.

So as I mentioned, you also had access to this on the home screen as well, and you're going to find

that in Power.

BI It's kind of like Excel.

There's many ways of doing the same thing, so you can access it from different areas.

Again, we've got our recent, we've got our favorites and you're able to see that list.

If you want to create something as a favorite, very easy.

You just go to the report itself, You'll see that there's a star and all you do is actually just click

on the star that makes it a favorite.

When you go into your favorites now you'll see that it's part of the favorites.

If you remove the star, then it just gets removed from your list of favorites.

It's a very easy to do.

The next part is your data hub.

Now, what was thought to happen is that as you start to load data into your service, whether it's

through publishing reports in the pub, your desktop, or whether it's loading your own information,

you will start to then have access to that data within the Power BI service.

And this can become enormously powerful, especially if you're working with a team of people because

you may have other authors who want to access your data set.

Now as you start working on your data sets, you start enriching them with new calculations and new

ways of doing things, and that becomes powerful.

So basically within the data hub, you can actually see which other data sets you've got access to and

you may well want to create reports from these data sets as well.

We'll talk a bit about that a bit later on.

And we also have something called Matrix.

The idea of this is really about creating a set of metrics that you want to see an overview of what's

happening with the key data within your business.

So this is something that you can set up.

As you can see, it very much works like a KPI.

Basically, you've got some key measurements that you're showing and then maybe a bit of description

and then also a trend graph just showing you what the trends are.

Then again, moving down on navigation, we have something called apps.

So apps allow you to create standalone apps where people can access the data but cannot author the report.

So this is really useful when you want to share the data with lots of people and basically you just

want them to be able to have the app.

They go into the app, they can only have view the data.

As I say, they cannot author the report from here.

Again, we're going to show an example of this later on in the course.

Then we have something called deployment pipelines.

This is really for your bigger organizations, and this is when they want to create a pipeline of data,

setting up testing environments and then basically roll this out.

So we're not going to be covering this in this course.

We're going to be sticking to the basics, basically hard to work with by.

But if you're working in an enterprise setting, you might well find that you start to use something

like this.

We have a knowledge center really just gives you access to different forms of learning that you can

find out about power.

BI So if you want to go in here, you'll see there's some sample reports, you can see some ideas,

also some documentation.

And as I said, learning also you'll see this access to the community which can be really useful when

you got questions and you want to get some answers.

Now, the next two parts is really where you start to do your work within the Power BI service.

So we have something called workspaces.

Now I'm just going to pull up my workspaces here.

Now what you'll see that within the workspaces is that when you've got a free account, all you get

access to is something called my workspace.

Now, with a free account, what you can do is you can basically publish into the power your service

or create your own report within the service, but you cannot share it with anybody else.

If you want to be able to share reports with other people, you need a pro license.

So unfortunately, you do need a license to be able to do that.

Now, once you get a pro license, you're able to create your own workspaces.

Now you can see there's a couple of examples that are just on my screen at the moment.

Now, once you create your own workspace, you can then publish your reports into those workspaces and

then share it with other users.

Again, this is a topic we're going to talk about later on in the course and a lot more detail.

We'll look at creating our own workspaces and how we do that.

For now, though, we're just going to be working with my workspace.

So in the next lesson we're going to be showing an example of how we bring some data into the pub.

Our service going to create a quick little report here, and then we're basically going to show how

we would put that together.

So we're going to conclude the lesson there.

I will see you in the next one.