Chapter 2

Successful Self-Service Analytics

In This Chapter

•   What Is Business Intelligence?

•   Is Your Organization Ready for BI?

•   Implementation: Best Practices

When an organization implements Power BI, it is seeking to create an environment where business users can perform their own self-service analytics to create business intelligence. Knowing how to use Power BI is important to the success of these types of business intelligence projects. However, I am assuming you already knew that, because you bought this book. Beyond knowing the tool (or tools, given that you learned in Chapter 1 that Power BI is actually a set of tools), several other factors are also important to BI project success, such as the following:

•   A common understanding ...

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