Power BI for Business Reporting Professional Certificate

Power BI for Business Reporting teaches you to turn spreadsheets and databases into clear, interactive reports that managers actually use. Power BI is one of the most widely used business intelligence tools in the world, and Power BI skills are in high demand across banks, telecoms, NGOs, government agencies and growing businesses in Africa.

You will follow the complete professional workflow: connecting to data; cleaning and reshaping it with Power Query; designing a star-schema data model with correct relationships and a date table; writing DAX measures, including CALCULATE and time intelligence such as year-to-date and year-over-year growth; designing reports with the right visuals, interactivity and layout; and publishing and sharing securely with row-level security.

Every module uses realistic business examples, and the capstone asks you to build a complete sales dashboard for an agro-dealer chain with stores in South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, using a multi-table dataset with more than 23,000 transactions.

No previous Power BI or programming experience is required; basic spreadsheet skills are enough. Power BI Desktop is free and runs on Windows (Mac users can use a Windows virtual machine or a lab computer). How the course works: six modules, 23 lessons with more than 25 videos from respected Power BI educators including Kevin Stratvert, SQLBI, Guy in a Cube, Pragmatic Works and Leila Gharani, a hands-on activity in every lesson, a quiz after every module, a capstone project and a final certification examination. Most learners finish in 6 to 8 weeks at 4 to 5 hours per week.