Microsoft Power BI Training for
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Learn to build interactive dashboards, automate reporting, and turn raw data into business decisions. Live, instructor-led Power BI classes for analysts, managers, and teams.
Your leadership team wants dashboards. Your analysts are still building reports in Excel. Your monthly reporting cycle takes five days when it should take five minutes. And the one person who knows how to pull the numbers is the bottleneck everyone is waiting on.
Power BI solves this. Microsoft Power BI connects directly to Excel files, databases, cloud services, and dozens of other data sources. It transforms raw data into interactive dashboards with filters, drill-downs, and visualizations that update in real time. A report that an analyst rebuilds manually every month in Excel can be built once in Power BI and refreshed automatically going forward.
But Power BI is not a tool you figure out by clicking around. The data modeling, the DAX language, Power Query transformations, and the relationship logic between tables all require structured training to use correctly. That is what DWC delivers.
DWC’s Power BI training is designed for business professionals, analysts, and managers who work with data but do not have an engineering background. Every class is live, instructor-led, and built around hands-on exercises using real-world data scenarios. We teach Power BI as a business problem-solving tool, not a technical abstraction.
Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, DWC has been delivering Power BI and data analytics training to professionals and organizations across Northern Colorado, the Front Range, and nationwide since 2006. Power BI is the fastest-rising Microsoft training topic we deliver.
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Microsoft Power BI for Data Driven Decision Makers
1 Day (8 hrs; two 4-hr sessions)Microsoft Power BI for Data Driven Decision Makers is a leadership development training that helps managers interpret dashboards and use data to support informed decisions.From $495.00 -
Microsoft Power BI Beginners (Level 1)
14 hrs total. 4 sessions.Get Started with data analytics in Power BI BeginnersFrom $649.00 -
Microsoft Power BI Intermediate (Level 2)
14 hrs total. 4 sessions.Expand your skills in Power BI Intermediate classesFrom $649.00 -
Microsoft Power BI Advanced (Level 3)
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Microsoft Power BI
Three Power BI Courses. From First Dashboard to Advanced Data Modeling.
A clear learning path whether you are building your first report or writing complex DAX.
Power BI for Beginners (Level 1) is the starting point for professionals who are new to Power BI. This course gives you a comprehensive introduction to the Power BI Desktop environment, the DAX language, Power Query, data relationships, and connecting to multiple data sources. By the end of the course, you will be able to navigate Power BI confidently, connect to Excel and CSV data, build your first interactive report with filters and slicers, and understand how data models work in Power BI.
What you will learn in Level 1: Navigate and customize the Power BI Desktop interface. Understand data models: fields, facts, lookups, tables, and relationships. Create basic DAX formulas for calculated fields using filter and aggregation functions. Use Power Query Editor to transform, shape, and clean raw data. Build relationships between dimension tables, fact tables, and date tables. Connect to text, Excel, and CSV data sources. Create interactive visualizations including charts, cards, and maps. Design and publish your first Power BI dashboard. Understand the differences between Power BI, Power Pivot, and Power Apps.
14 hours total across 4 sessions (3.5 hours per session).
Power BI Advanced (Level 2) is for analysts and reporting professionals who completed Level 1 and need to build more sophisticated dashboards, write complex DAX, and work with advanced data modeling techniques. This course deepens your ability to solve real business problems with Power BI and prepares you to build the dashboards and reports that leadership depends on.
14 hours total across 4 sessions.
Power BI for Data-Driven Decision Makers is designed for managers, department heads, and leadership teams who need to read, interpret, and act on Power BI dashboards but do not need to build them. This one-day workshop helps leaders ask better questions of their data, understand what dashboards are telling them, and use Power BI insights to support informed decisions.
8 hours total across 2 sessions.
Who Takes Power BI Training
Power BI training is for anyone who works with data, builds reports, or makes decisions based on numbers.
Business Analysts and Data Analysts
Business Analysts and Data Analysts are the most common Power BI training participants. These professionals are responsible for building reports, analyzing trends, and presenting data to stakeholders. Power BI training helps them move from static Excel reports to interactive dashboards that update automatically and tell a clearer story.
Finance and Accounting Teams
Finance and Accounting Teams that build monthly financial reports, budget variance analyses, and forecasting models. Power BI training helps these teams automate their most time-consuming reports and give leadership real-time visibility into financial performance without waiting for a manual update.
HR and People Operations Teams
HR and People Operations Teams that need workforce dashboards for headcount, turnover, compensation, and employee engagement data. Power BI helps HR teams build visual reports that leadership can interact with directly, rather than relying on static spreadsheets attached to emails.
Administrative and Support Staff
Administrative and Support Staff who use Excel for scheduling, data entry, list management, and basic reporting. Beginner and Intermediate training helps them work faster and produce cleaner output.
Government and Public Sector Employees
Government and Public Sector Employees who need Excel skills for budgeting, grant reporting, compliance tracking, and performance measurement. DWC has extensive experience training government teams in Colorado, Utah, and nationwide.
Managers and Department Heads
Managers and Department Heads who need to interpret dashboards, ask better questions of their data, and make informed decisions. The Power BI for Data-Driven Decision Makers workshop is designed specifically for leaders who use dashboards but do not build them.
Government and Public Sector Teams
Government and Public Sector Teams that build dashboards for compliance reporting, grant tracking, budget monitoring, and public accountability. DWC has delivered Power BI training to government agencies in Colorado, Utah, and nationwide.
Administrative and Support Staff
Administrative and Support Staff who use Excel for scheduling, data entry, list management, and basic reporting. Beginner and Intermediate training helps them work faster and produce cleaner output.
Companies that invest in workforce training are 17% more productive and 21% more profitable. 80% of employees say they would stay longer at an organization that invests in their development.
Custom Power BI Training Built Around Your Data
We do not teach generic sample datasets. We teach your dashboards, your reports, your business questions.
When a North Denver manufacturing company needed their operations managers to build production dashboards, DWC built the entire four-session curriculum around the company’s actual production data, scheduling templates, and quality control metrics. Managers were not learning on hypothetical examples. They were building the dashboards they would use at work, in the same session where they learned how.
That is how every custom Power BI engagement works at DWC:
Before training, DWC consults with your team lead or department manager to identify the specific reporting problems you need Power BI to solve. We review your current reports, data sources, and the business questions your dashboards need to answer.
During training, exercises are built around your team’s actual data (or representative samples if data is sensitive). Participants connect to their own data sources, build relationships between their actual tables, write DAX formulas that solve their specific reporting challenges, and design dashboards that match the visualizations their leadership team needs to see.
After training, participants walk away with working dashboards and reports they built during the course, along with the skills to maintain, update, and expand them independently.
Real-world use cases we build Power BI training around:
Monthly financial reporting and budget dashboards for accounting and finance teams. Sales pipeline and revenue tracking dashboards for sales leadership. Production and quality control dashboards for manufacturing and operations. Workforce analytics and turnover dashboards for HR departments. Campaign performance and ROI dashboards for marketing teams. Grant compliance and program performance dashboards for government agencies. Project tracking and resource allocation dashboards for project management offices. Executive summary dashboards for leadership and board reporting.
Delivery options:
On-site at your office anywhere in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, Longmont, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, or anywhere in Colorado. Live online through Zoom for remote, hybrid, or distributed teams. A combination of both for organizations that want flexibility across sessions.
Why Power BI Skills Matter
Power BI is the most in-demand business intelligence skill in the market, and the gap between supply and demand is growing.
Power BI is not a niche tool for data engineers. It is a business reporting platform used by analysts, managers, and decision makers across every industry. The demand for professionals who can build and manage Power BI dashboards has grown sharply, and the salaries reflect that:
Power BI Analyst roles command $85,000 to $164,000 per year in the United States (Glassdoor, 2026). Even professionals whose primary role is not “analyst” see salary increases when they add Power BI to their skill set.
Power BI Developer roles average $110,000 per year, with senior and consultant-level roles exceeding $125,000 (Dataquest).
Freelance Power BI professionals charge $50 to $100 per hour on platforms like Upwork, with PL-300 certification holders commanding premium rates.
For organizations, the value is equally clear. A team trained on Power BI produces reports faster, makes fewer errors, reduces dependency on IT for data requests, and gives leadership real-time visibility into performance metrics that used to take days to compile.
How Organizations Use DWC Power BI Training
North Denver Manufacturing Company: Custom Power BI for Operations A manufacturing company in North Denver enrolled their operations management team in a custom four-session Power BI program. DWC built the entire curriculum around the company’s production data, scheduling systems, and quality control reporting. Managers designed and built working dashboards during the training that they continued using in daily operations. The company reported that their monthly operations review, which previously required two days of manual data compilation, was reduced to a single dashboard refresh.
Fort Collins Engineering Firm: Power BI for Project Reporting A Fort Collins engineering firm enrolled 10 project managers and analysts in Power BI Beginners. The team was tracking project budgets and timelines across dozens of spreadsheets with no centralized view. After training, the team built a shared project dashboard that gave leadership real-time visibility into budget status, resource allocation, and milestone progress across all active projects.
Colorado State Agency: Power BI for Government Reporting A Colorado state agency enrolled 15 analysts in Power BI Beginners and Advanced. The agency needed to replace a manual, Excel-based reporting process with interactive dashboards that could be shared across departments. DWC delivered training live online with exercises built around the agency’s actual grant reporting data and compliance metrics.
Denver Financial Services Firm: Power BI for Monthly Reporting A Denver-area financial services company was spending five days every month building reports in Excel. DWC delivered a two-day Power BI workshop customized around the firm’s actual datasets and reporting structures. Analysts built working dashboards during training and reduced their monthly reporting cycle from five days to two.
Northern Colorado Healthcare Organization: Power BI for Workforce Analytics A Northern Colorado healthcare organization enrolled its HR and operations leadership team in Power BI for Data-Driven Decision Makers. The workshop helped managers interpret existing workforce dashboards, identify trends in turnover and staffing data, and ask more productive questions of their analytics team.
Power BI Training in Fort Collins, Northern Colorado, and Beyond
Based in Fort Collins. Delivering Power BI training across Northern Colorado, the Front Range, and nationwide.
Digital Workshop Center is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, at 324 Remington Street in Old Town. We have provided Power BI and data analytics training to professionals and organizations since 2006.
In Fort Collins and Northern Colorado, we deliver Power BI training to employers, government offices, and teams in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, Longmont, and communities throughout the region. Northern Colorado organizations benefit from both live online delivery and on-site training at your office. Common Northern Colorado Power BI training clients include engineering firms, healthcare organizations, manufacturing employers, agricultural companies, financial services firms, and municipal and county government offices.
Across the Front Range and Colorado, we serve organizations in Boulder, Denver, Broomfield, Arvada, Lakewood, Aurora, Colorado Springs, and communities statewide.
In Utah, we serve organizations in Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden, and across the Wasatch Front with live online Power BI training.
Nationwide, our live online Power BI classes reach professionals and teams in every state.
Your Power BI Training Goals, Customized to You
DWC provides expert Power BI training aligned to your team’s skill levels, reporting needs, and the specific business questions your dashboards need to answer.
20,000+ Participants Trained | 90% Completion Rate | 1,500+ Organizations Served
Why Power BI Training at DWC?
- Designed for business professionals, not engineers. We teach Power BI as a business reporting and decision-making tool. No coding background required. No data engineering prerequisites.
- Three courses for three audiences. Level 1 for beginners building their first dashboards. Level 2 for analysts writing advanced DAX and building complex models. Data-Driven Decision Makers for leaders who read dashboards but do not build them.
- Live, instructor-led sessions through Zoom or on-site. Every class is taught live with an instructor in real time. On-site delivery is available for Colorado organizations. No pre-recorded videos. No self-paced modules.
- Custom curriculum built around your data. Private group sessions use your team’s actual data sources, reports, and business questions. The dashboards participants build in training are the dashboards they use at work.
- Instructors with real-world Power BI experience. DWC instructors use Power BI in their own analytical and consulting work. They teach from experience with DAX, data modeling, and dashboard design, not from a slide deck.
- Natural transition from Excel. DWC teaches both Excel and Power BI, which means we help teams move from spreadsheets to dashboards with a consistent instructor and training approach.
- Certificates of completion. Every participant receives documentation for professional development records.
Talk to our team about your Power BI training goals, team size, and timeline.
Power BI Training FAQs
What Power BI courses are available?
DWC offers three Power BI courses: Power BI for Beginners (Level 1) for professionals new to Power BI who want to build their first dashboards and reports, Power BI Advanced (Level 2) for analysts who need advanced DAX, data modeling, and complex dashboard design, and Power BI for Data-Driven Decision Makers for managers and leaders who need to interpret dashboards and use data to inform decisions. Organizations can also request fully custom Power BI workshops built around their specific data and reporting needs.
What will I learn in Power BI training?
In Level 1, you will learn to navigate Power BI Desktop, connect to data sources (Excel, CSV, text files), transform data using Power Query, build relationships between tables, write basic DAX formulas, create interactive visualizations and charts, and design and publish dashboards. Level 2 goes deeper into advanced DAX, complex data modeling, and sophisticated dashboard design. Data-Driven Decision Makers focuses on reading dashboards, interpreting visualizations, and using data insights to support business decisions.
How long are Power BI classes?
Power BI Beginners and Advanced are each 14 hours total, delivered across 4 sessions (3.5 hours per session). Power BI for Data-Driven Decision Makers is 8 hours total, delivered across 2 sessions. The multi-session format gives participants time to practice between sessions and return with questions, which produces significantly better retention than single-day workshops.
Can my employer pay for this class?
Yes. Many professionals attend using employer professional development funds, workforce training benefits, or departmental training budgets. DWC provides invoices, purchase order documentation, and certificates of completion. Organizations can also purchase private group sessions, which are often more cost-effective than individual enrollment. See our financial aid and funding information for additional options.
Do you offer Power BI training for government employees?
Yes. DWC has delivered Power BI training to state agencies, county governments, and municipal departments in Colorado, Utah, and nationwide. Government teams frequently request Power BI training for grant reporting, compliance dashboards, budget monitoring, and public accountability metrics.
Do you provide Power BI training in Utah?
Yes. DWC delivers live online Power BI training to professionals and teams across Utah, including Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden, and Park City.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, which can be used for professional development records, HR compliance, continuing education documentation, or employer-required training verification.
Do I need coding or technical experience?
No. Power BI Beginners (Level 1) requires no coding or data engineering background. Basic reporting knowledge and familiarity with Excel or database concepts is helpful but not required. The course is designed for business professionals, analysts, and anyone who works with data in a professional setting.
Are Power BI classes live or self-paced?
All Power BI classes are delivered live with an instructor, either online through Zoom or on-site at your location. Participants follow along with hands-on exercises, ask questions, and get feedback in real time. There are no self-paced modules, pre-recorded videos, or on-demand content. Every session is scheduled, interactive, and designed for active participation.
Should I learn Excel first or Power BI first?
If your team needs to build and edit spreadsheets, Excel training is the right starting point. If your team has outgrown what spreadsheets can handle and needs interactive dashboards, automated reporting, and shared visualizations, Power BI is the next step. Many organizations start with Excel training and add Power BI once their team is ready. DWC teaches both and can help you determine the right sequence for your team.
Can Power BI training be customized for our team?
Yes. Custom Power BI training is one of DWC’s most requested services. We build the entire curriculum around your team’s actual data sources, reporting needs, and the specific business questions your dashboards need to answer. Whether your team tracks production data in manufacturing, financial performance in accounting, workforce metrics in HR, or compliance data in government, we design exercises and examples around your real-world use cases. On-site delivery at your Colorado office is available.
Do you provide Power BI training in Fort Collins and Northern Colorado?
Yes. DWC is headquartered in Fort Collins, CO, and delivers Power BI training to organizations throughout Northern Colorado, including Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, and Longmont. Training can be delivered on-site at your office or live online. We also serve organizations across the entire Front Range, including Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs.
Do you offer Power BI training nationwide?
Yes. Our live online Power BI classes are available to individuals and organizations in every state, with scheduling flexibility for any U.S. time zone.
How do I get started?
Individuals can register for upcoming Power BI classes directly from the schedule above. Organizations can contact our team to discuss custom training, group sessions, team size, and timeline. Most organizations move from initial conversation to confirmed training dates within one to two weeks.