Pro Power BI Architecture: Sharing, Security, and Deployment Options for Microsoft Power BI Solutions

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Reza RadPro Power BI Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4015-1_2

2. Tools and Preparation

Reza Rad¹ 

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Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand

 

This book is full of examples. To be able to run these examples, you need to set up your working machine. The tools that are needed will have to be downloaded and installed, accounts that are needed will be acquired, and data files needed are all explained. You will get the Power BI Desktop installation guide through this chapter, the Power BI accounts setup; and you will learn how to install Power BI mobile app and download the code files for this book.

Getting Power BI Desktop

There are two ways of getting the Power BI Desktop onto your local PC. One is the traditional method of downloading ...