Power BI Training Courses

This page lists Wise Owl scheduled public training courses on Power BI Desktop, as well as on creating measures in DAX:

Power BI classroom training

We currently run the following training courses for the standalone Power BI application, as well as a dedicated DAX course:

Introduction to Power BI DAX measures Advanced Power BI 3-day fast track Power BI/DAX

Can't see the course you want? Have a look at our onsite Power BI Tools training page, or see our other Power BI training resources.

Not sure which course you want? See what you can learn on one of our Power BI courses.

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Which is the right Power BI course for you?

The main Microsoft Power BI tools are as follows:

Application	Notes
Power BI Desktop	Create visual, interactive reports which you can then publish to your organisation's website (or to a public site).
Power BI Service	This allows you to view reports that you've published online, to create shared workspaces and to pin tiles to dashboards.
Power BI Mobile	Create reports to be viewed on mobile devices.

In addition, PowerPivot within Excel is often thought of as a Power BI tool (mainly because that's what Microsoft used to call it).

Our Power BI Courses

We run the following introductory courses in the Microsoft Power BI tools:

Course	What you'll learn
Introduction to Power BI	How to create visually interactive reports, including importing data, transforming it using Query Editor, creating visuals such as tables, matrices and charts, filtering data (for example, using slicers) and creating calculated columns and measures using DAX.
PowerPivot for Excel	How to import data, use Query Editor to transform it, and how to create tidy data models upon which to create pivot tables in Excel. You'll also learn how to create calculated columns and measures using DAX, as well as creating KPIs. The course ends with an overview of Power BI Desktop.

As you can see, there's a lot of overlap between the two courses! In addition, we have the following more advanced courses listed on our site:

Course	Notes
DAX	Learn how to create measures and calculated columns using DAX.
Advanced Power BI	Learn some more advanced features of Power BI, including parameters, hierarchies, binning and advanced charts.

We also run a three-day fast-track Power BI course, which attempts to combine six days of training into a single, intensive three-day course!

You can get more help on whether you should book onto our Power BI or our PowerPivot training course here (this blog contains a full explanation of the differences between the two courses).

10 things our Power BI courses include

Each of our scheduled courses includes:

Small course sizes - we have a maximum of 6 people on each course, and frequently run courses with fewer delegates.
A trainer! And not just anyone - our courses are only ever given by full-time Wise Owls (our average feedback scores are in the range 9.2 to 9.8 out of 10).
Full colour courseware and exercises of oustanding quality (download a sample Power BI courseware chapter to judge this claim for yourself) .
A no cancellation guarantee (once you've booked/confirmed training, it will run).
A computer for each delegate (obviously).
Lunch out each day at a local restaurant (chosen on the day of the course, after discussion!).
Unlimited refreshments during the day, including Tassimo or Nespresso coffee and a range of biscuits and snacks to keep you going through those dark afternoon hours.
A one gigabyte USB stick, containing course files, answers to exercises and (by the end of the course) your answers too, together with a Sheaffer biro.
Unofficial help after the course (although we don't have a dedicated post-course support line, in practice trainers will be happy to answer the odd ad hoc question after a course has taken place).
A certificate sent out digitally or in paper form (your choice) after each course, together with (for online courses) the trainer's thoughts on how the course went.

Have a look at our full list of benefits, or read hundreds of testimonials to the quality of our training.

About our Power BI training

Both our PowerPivot and our Power BI courses use the same sample database. It's called Make-a-Mammal, and is like a more general version of Build-a-Bear. It consists of a handful of simple tables containing purchasing data for a (fictitious) company, which delegates get to analyse by:

Region, town and shopping centre
Environment, habitat and product
Year, quarter and month

Our Power BI courses will not (directly) help you to pass the following Microsoft exams:

70-778 (Analysing and Visualising Data with Microsoft Power BI)
70-779 (Analysing and Visualising Data with Microsoft Excel)

However, our Power BI courses will show you how to load data into your data models, applying clever transforms as you do so, and how to add additional statistics called measures using the DAX formula language.