This is part 1 of a two-session series with part 2 being a more advanced session with Chris Webb.

As organizations are increasingly seeking to derive more business value from their data, data consumers need to be empowered to be more self-sufficient to access authoritative data in a familiar environment securely and in a timely manner. For many users, Microsoft Excel is the go-to tool to analyze data given its simplicity and wide popularity.

Join this session to learn how you can enhance your organization’s self-service data culture and reduce time to insights by combining the governance and security standards of Power BI with the versatility of Excel. In Excel, Power BI has made it easy to securely access authoritative datasets so that data consumers can quickly derive business insights to drive better data-driven decision making.