This course equips business professionals, Power BI developers, and aspiring data strategists with the essential skills to transform raw data into actionable business intelligence using Power BI. You’ll begin by exploring the principles of data-driven decision-making — understanding how modern organizations harness analytics to inform strategy, optimize operations, and drive innovation. Through real-world examples, you’ll examine how Business Intelligence (BI) has evolved into a critical enabler of organizational agility and competitive advantage.

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What you'll learn
Identify key concepts of Business Intelligence and list the core components of the Power BI ecosystem.
Explain how Power BI supports data-driven decision-making and contrasts with traditional BI systems.
Demonstrate how to connect, transform, and visualize data from multiple sources using Power BI tools.
Evaluate DAX calculations to develop efficient and insightful analytical models in Power BI.
Skills you'll gain
- Data Integration
- Data Cleansing
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Database Design
- Process Improvement and Optimization
- Data Quality
- Data Modeling
- Data Management
- Extract, Transform, Load
- Data Governance
- Data Analysis
- Snowflake Schema
- Relationship Management
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Power BI
- Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
- Data Transformation
- Data Strategy
- Business Intelligence
- Data Storytelling
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December 2025
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There are 4 modules in this course
Explore the foundations of Business Intelligence (BI) and the Power BI ecosystem to understand how data transforms into strategic insights. Learn how BI empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions, compare traditional and modern BI tools, and navigate the Power BI environment, architecture, and versions that underpin enterprise analytics.
What's included
14 videos8 readings4 assignments
Gain mastery over the data foundations that underpin intelligent analytics in Power BI. Learners will oversee the end-to-end data preparation process, connecting diverse data sources, transforming and cleansing information, and developing efficient data models. Emphasis is placed on schema design, relationship management, and performance optimization to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and scalability for enterprise-grade reporting and analytics.
What's included
14 videos8 readings4 assignments
Develop advanced proficiency in Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), the core analytical language of Power BI. Learners will explore the syntax, logic, and evaluation context that drive dynamic calculations and intelligent data modeling. Through hands-on practice, they will create calculated columns and measures, apply essential and time-based functions, and implement optimization techniques to ensure efficient, high-performance analytics across enterprise datasets.
What's included
18 videos10 readings4 assignments
This module is designed to assess an individual on the various concepts and teachings covered in this course. Evaluate your knowledge with a comprehensive graded quiz.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments1 discussion prompt
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Frequently asked questions
The Power BI Essentials course typically takes 3 weeks to complete, depending on your pace and time investment in practice exercises and assessments.
Learners will gain skills in connecting and transforming data, designing optimized data models, writing DAX formulas, creating dashboards, and interpreting insights to support strategic decisions.
The course includes guided demonstrations, practice assessments after each lesson, and a graded module assessment to help reinforce data transformation, modeling, and DAX application skills.
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