K2's Business Intelligence, Featuring Microsoft's Power BI Tools

Overview

Business Intelligence (BI) is perhaps the hottest topic in most professional circles in today’s business climate. Increasingly, organizations of all sizes seek to take advantage of the data available to them to identify previously undiscovered insights and gain competitive advantages thought to be out of reach just a few short years ago. A growing array of tools - from Excel add-ins to dedicated solutions such as Power BI - now allow you to leverage your existing knowledge and skills to create powerful, interactive dashboards and analyses unthinkable until recently.

This program will teach you to implement “do-it-yourself business intelligence” using various techniques and tools. First, you will learn to use advanced Excel data query and summarization features to create Excel-based dashboards. You will then learn how to leverage that knowledge to build even more powerful BI objects using Microsoft’s Power BI tools. If gaining better insights into your data to make better decisions interests you, then join us for a fast-paced look at how you can take advantage of these fantastic tools.

Highlights

The importance of Business Intelligence in today's business climate

Differentiating between Power BI licensing options

A hands-on approach to creating effective Power BI reports and dashboards

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of computer operations and terminology, including Microsoft Office Excel 2019 and newer

Designed For

Business professionals seeking to develop and implement BI solutions

Objectives

Create Excel-based BI dashboards

List the potential shortcomings of BI solutions based wholly on Excel

Identify and implement various Excel add-ins that might be helpful in BI applications

Differentiate between the BI opportunities in Excel and Power BI

Create and distribute dashboards using Power BI

Preparation

None

Credits

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Fields of Study

Leader(s):

Mac McClelland, Mac McClelland, an attorney and accou, K2 Enterprises

Leader Bios

Mac McClelland, Mac McClelland, an attorney and accou, K2 Enterprises

Mac McClelland, MBA, JD, an attorney and accounting professional, is an associate of K2 Enterprises of Hammond, La., and Network Management Group of Hutchinson, Kan. Mac was formerly the director of the Centre for Financial Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he lived and worked for seven years from 1990 to 1997. He was also a member of the faculty of the Advanced Business Programme, ranked in the top 100 MBA programs in the world by The Economist, specializing in business strategy and strategic management accounting. He gained his practical experience in information systems with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and has an established practice in business and technology consulting. Mac has taught hundreds of continuing professional education seminars to accountants and business managers in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia. His presentations are highly rated, and he has won several awards for teaching excellence. MCClelland has been published in leading business and practitioner journals, including Computers in Accounting, Journal of Accounting Education, and the top rated Journal of Accounting Research.

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