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>> Let's take a quick tour
around the PowerBI.com service.
We'll have a look
at the different elements
and then different concepts
that make up all of the things
you'll be working with in Power BI.
And just have a quick look
at kind of how they fit together
before we dive into the detail
of how you build and work
with all of those different elements.
When you first login to Power BI,
you'll actually see a blank screen,
because you'll need
to create some content.
But once you've built
a few dashboards,
this is the sort of thing
that you might see.
The Dashboard is kind of
the top-level concept
within Power BI.
Here you can see I've got
a set of different data
that comes from a range
of different places
visualized in a few different ways.
I've got the descriptive elements
like images or texts
that help me understand
what's been shown on this dashboard.
So in this case,
I've pulled in some data
that came from our sales system.
So I can see units and revenue
to date, et cetera.
But then also from manufacturing systems
around downtime and defects
that sort of thing.
So I've got data
coming from multiple different places
all being brought
into a single dashboard.
And that's one of the key things
with Power BI.
It's about being able to track
all of the different data
within your business,
bring it into one place
so that you can help
monitor that overtime
to make better business decisions.
Like I said, the dashboard
is kind of the top-level concept
that you want to understand here.
And this Navigation pane
on the left-hand side
shows you all of the dashboards
that are available to you,
but then also the reports and datasets.
A single dashboard
is made up of multiple tiles
and all of these tiles will be linked
by default to a particular report
behind the scenes.
So when I click on one of these tiles,
let's click on the revenue one here.
It will take me through to report.
And now you can see
the Navigational pane
is highlighting the report
that I'm looking at.
I can see the same visual
and a bunch of other visuals
that will help me analyze
and find insights in this data
by slicing, and dicing that data.
This report in turn was created
from a particular dataset.
And you can think of a dataset
as either a pointer,
a connection to another database
or a set of data itself
that might have been cached
in the Power BI service
and being refreshed automatically,
maybe on a daily basis.
The way these things are linked together
is that a dataset can be linked
to multiple reports,
but a report always has
one single dataset.
And then reports can be linked
to a whole number
of different dashboards.
I can pin visuals
from one of these reports
up to multiple dashboards
and each dashboard can have
visuals in it for multiple reports.
So as you saw the van Asda one,
I've got these units and revenue sales
came from my revenue report,
but the defects and downtime one
came from my supplier
quality analysis report.
So for example when I click
on one of these I go through
to the report underlying that visual.
So we've got different reports
connected to different dashboards
and datasets
underpinning all of these things.
That's kind of the key concept
to think about within the Power BI
when you're using the service.
The other things to know about
are that you have this navigation bar
across the top that gives access
to things like different settings
that you've got
and you can see that it's locked in
and knows who are,
and you can sign out again through that.
And you can give us feedback
on this little smiley face
and get support
through the question mark.
So there's a whole range
of different things
that you can do within Power BI.
And we'll explore that
through the rest of the videos
and exercises in these ops.