✅ Assignment: Development with Power BI
🧠 Objective
The objective of this assignment is to implement a complete end-to-end BI solution in Power
BI, covering the following development stages:
1. Data Collection
2. Data Modeling
3. Report Design
4. Deployment
5. User Sharing & Collaboration
📌 Tasks To Be Completed
✅ 1. Data Source Integration
● Choose a relevant dataset (Excel, SQL Server, Web, or API).
● Example used: SalesData.xlsx with sheets like Orders, Customers, Products.
Steps:
● Load data using Power BI Desktop
● Use Power Query Editor for cleaning:
○ Remove nulls, change data types
○ Merge queries where necessary (e.g., Orders + Customers)
✅ 2. Data Modeling
● Create relationships between tables (1-to-many, many-to-1)
● Define DAX measures:
○ Total Sales = SUM(Orders[OrderAmount])
○ Profit Margin = DIVIDE([Profit], [Sales])
○ YTD Sales = TOTALYTD([Sales], 'Date'[Date])
Use of:
● Star schema for performance
● Date table for time intelligence
✅ 3. Report Development
Design a multi-page Power BI report:
● Page 1 – Executive Dashboard:
○ Total Sales, Profit KPIs
○ Region-wise sales map
● Page 2 – Product Analysis:
○ Top/Bottom Products
○ Sales by Category
● Page 3 – Customer Insights:
○ Returning vs New Customers
○ Lifetime Value metric
Features Used:
● Slicers, Bookmarks, Drill-through, Tooltips
✅ 4. Publishing & Deployment
● Save .pbix file and publish to Power BI Service
● Create a workspace for collaboration
● Create a dashboard by pinning key visuals
✅ 5. Sharing & Collaboration
● Use “Share” or App Workspace to allow team access
● Manage permissions and row-level security (RLS) for user-level data visibility
✅ 6. Performance Optimization
● Use Performance Analyzer to identify slow visuals
● Optimize DAX measures (use variables)
● Reduce cardinality (e.g., remove high-precision timestamps)
📝 Conclusion
This assignment offered hands-on experience in:
● End-to-end Power BI development
● Data modeling and DAX
● Report creation best practices
● Sharing, deployment, and optimization
Power BI empowers developers to turn raw data into actionable insights, supporting real-time
business decision-making.