Power BI documentation

Power BI amplifies your insights and the value of your data. With Power BI documentation, you get expert information and answers to address your needs, no matter how you use Power BI.

Get Started

Download Power BI Desktop for free

Tutorial

Get started creating in the Power BI service

Concept

Datamarts (preview)

Concept

Export Power BI embedded analytics reports API

How-To Guide

Edit relationships in the Properties pane

Concept

Power BI Premium features

How-To Guide

Create submetrics that roll up to metrics

Training

Study Power BI start to finish on Microsoft training

Power BI: Get started

• What is Power BI?
• Get started with Power BI Desktop
• Get started creating in the Power BI service
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Power BI for business users

• Am I a Power BI business user?
• Get around in the Power BI service
• What is a dashboard?
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Enterprise

• Power BI Premium features
• Security
• Data protection
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Administer Power BI

• What is Power BI administration?
• Admin portal settings
• Use the same account for Power BI and Azure
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Develop in Power BI

• What is Power BI embedded analytics?
• Power BI Embedded
• Develop your own Power BI visual
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Connect to data

• Connect to data
• On-premises data gateways
• Discover data on the data hub
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Datamarts (preview)

• Datamarts overview (preview)
• Understand datamarts (preview)
• Get started with datamarts (preview)
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Model data

• Add a custom column
• Create calculated columns
• Create and manage relationships
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Create reports and dashboards

• Design reports for accessibility
• Create a paginated report based on a shared dataset
• Customize buttons in reports
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Collaborate and share

• Share dashboards and reports
• Create workspaces
• Add the Power BI app to Microsoft Teams
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Integrate across products

• Azure and Power BI
• Analyze in Excel
• Export and email with Power Automate
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Power BI in the mobile apps

• What are the mobile apps?
• Explore dashboards and reports
• Get data on the go with the mobile apps
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Best practices guidance

• Power BI adoption roadmap
• Power BI implementation planning
• Optimization guide for Power BI
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Learning catalog

• Business decision makers
• Get started with DAX
• Solution architects
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Troubleshooting

• Known issues for Power BI features
• Troubleshoot refresh scenarios
• Troubleshoot subscribing to reports and dashboards
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Support

• Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium support options
• Track Power BI service health in Microsoft 365
• Move Power BI to another region
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