The first step to insights begins in Power BI Desktop where you connect to and transform your data in preparation for data modeling. Start here to learn how to ingest and transform data in Power BI.

You'll learn how to retrieve data from a variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel, relational databases, and NoSQL data stores. You'll also learn how to improve performance while retrieving data.

Learn about Power BI, the building blocks and flow of Power BI, and how to create compelling, interactive reports.

Learn how to use Transact-SQL to query data in a database.

Use Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric to easily monitor and take action on your data.

In Microsoft Fabric, data scientists can manage data, notebooks, experiments, and models while easily accessing data from across the organization and collaborating with their fellow data professionals.

Data warehouses are analytical stores built on a relational schema to support SQL queries. Microsoft Fabric enables you to create a relational data warehouse in your workspace and integrate it easily with other elements of your end-to-end analytics solution.

Lakehouses merge data lake storage flexibility with data warehouse analytics. Microsoft Fabric offers a lakehouse solution for comprehensive analytics on a single SaaS platform.

Businesses need data analysis more than ever. In this learning path, you will learn about the life and journey of a data analyst, the skills, tasks, and processes they go through in order to tell a story with data so trusted business decisions can be made. You will learn how the suite of Power BI tools and services are used by a data analyst to tell a compelling story through reports and dashboards, and the need for true BI in the enterprise.

Explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric.

Begin exploring the fundamentals of Power BI interactive reports and the web-based Power BI service for your business.

Analysis of real-time data streams is a critical capability for any modern data analytics solution. You can use the Real-Time Intelligence capabilities of Microsoft Fabric to ingest, query, and process streams of data.