Microsoft Excel – Business Intelligence

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in building business-intelligence solutions in Excel using Power Query, the Data Model, Power Pivot, DAX, PivotTables, dashboards, refresh, governance, and performance controls. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Connect to files, tables, databases, folders, web sources, and approved business systems with Power Query
• Clean, transform, merge, append, pivot, unpivot, type, validate, and document repeatable query steps
• Design a data model with fact tables, dimensions, keys, relationships, calendars, hierarchies, and naming standards
• Use Power Pivot, calculated columns, measures, model properties, hidden fields, and model-quality controls
• Create DAX measures for totals, ratios, variance, ranking, context, time intelligence, and exception analysis
• Build PivotTables, PivotCharts, slicers, timelines, KPIs, drill paths, dashboards, and management views
• Configure refresh, connections, privacy, credentials, load behavior, protection, ownership, and distribution
• Optimize queries and models, validate totals, troubleshoot failures, monitor performance, and plan improvements

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.