Microsoft Excel BI

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in using Excel Power Query, Power Pivot, data models, DAX, PivotTables, and dashboards for business intelligence. 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

• Explain the Excel BI workflow and select suitable worksheets, tables, queries, models, pivots, and reports
• Connect to files, folders, databases, tables, web sources, and approved business data
• Clean, filter, split, merge, append, group, pivot, unpivot, and transform text, number, date, and structured data
• Apply data types, errors, parameters, functions, refresh, profiling, and validation controls
• Create normalized data models with tables, relationships, cardinality, hierarchies, calendars, and calculated columns
• Use DAX measures for totals, ratios, time intelligence, context, variance, and performance indicators
• Create PivotTables, PivotCharts, slicers, timelines, conditional formatting, visuals, and dashboard layouts
• Apply refresh, protection, performance, accessibility, documentation, distribution, and support practices

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.