1. From data to insight and impact – the BI revolution
Marc Reguera | Finance Director
Faisal Mohamood | Principal Program Manager Lead
Kasper de Jonge | Senior Program Manager
Riccardo Muti | Senior Program Manager
Patrick Baumgartner | Principal Group Designer

2. Meet Marc Reguera| ‏@marcreguera
Finance Director in the Worldwide Enterprise & Partner Group
Speaks at finance events around the world about how modern BI tools can transform finance organizations
Developed and delivered internal courses at Microsoft on data visualization, storytelling and business insight/impact.
Frequent contributor to the Blog: microsoft-blog/
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3. Meet Faisal Mohamood | @faisalmo
Principal Program Manager, Business Microsoft
Most recent gig included delivering Microsoft Power Query for Excel
Frequent speaker at conferences – TechEd, SQL PASS, Strata Conference, …
Previously worked on developer facing products such as MSBuild, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, etc.

4. Meet Kasper de Jonge | @kjonge
Senior Program Manager Power BI worked on developing features for Power BI, Power Pivot and more
Frequent speaker at conferences such as TechEd, SQLPASS and SQLSaturday
Author of the book Dashboarding and Reporting with Power Pivot and Excel: How to Design and Create a Financial Dashboard with PowerPivot – End to End.
His blog can be found at  

5. Meet Riccardo Muti | @riccardomuti
Senior Program Manager on the Power View team at Microsoft
Worked on “v1” of Power View
Designed features such as multi-sheet reports, export to PowerPoint
Frequent speaker at conferences such as TechEd, SQLPASS, and SharePoint Conference
His blog can be found at

6. Meet Patrick Baumgartner | @patbaum
Principle Designer on Power BI team at Microsoft
Speaker at Microsoft and Microsoft Partner Business Intelligence events about how to better make data and data analysis capabilities available to everyone
Currently focused on designing and developing experiences for Power BI having previously driven the experience design for ideation and incubation of Power BI Q&A
Frequently involved in the content and story creation for Microsoft BI keynote demos and presentations

7. Course Modules
Drive Impact with Self-Service Data Visualization Tools in Excel
01 | The BI revolution: spend less time struggling with data and more time driving insight and impact
02 | Getting any type of data
03 | Shaping any type of data
04 | Turning your data into a visual story
05 | Data exploration for everyone
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A course consists of 2 or more modules. A module is 30 to 75 minutes of related content.

8. Setting Expectations Target Audience Suggested Prerequisites
Finance professionals across functional roles
Finance executives
Professionals who want to learn more about how to use BI tools
Suggested Prerequisites
Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
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9. 04 | Turning Your Data Into A Visual Story
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Marc Reguera | Finance Director
Riccardo Muti | Senior Program Manager
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10. Module Overview What is Power View?
How to make your data visual and interactive
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Microsoft Office365
7/31/2019
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