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Understand the Power BI environment

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From the course: Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts by Microsoft Press

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Understand the Power BI environment

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- [Instructor] Okay, so let's spend a few minutes talking about the Power BI high-level architecture. And it's really important just to kind of step back and think about what all the pieces of Power BI are and what significance they play and how they fit together. We find this really gives users a good firm understanding in terms of what is happening, because when you're new to any technology, there's all kinds of terms and buzzwords and things being misused. It's really hard to paint a picture in your head how things work. So let's go through this. So we have a dotted line that runs down the middle of the screen there. And what is below that line is generally what we like to say on-premise and above is what we refer to as in the cloud. So, what we're going to work a lot with in this course is the Power BI Desktop. And what we're going to do with the Power BI Desktop is we're going to go ahead and consume data from our different sources. So we're going to bring data from cloud sources…

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