Goals in Power BI — Let’s build KPIs Dashboard

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One of the most interesting functionality in Power BI announced in 2021 are Goals. Goals add new possibility to define and share target KPIs defined above existing Power BI reports in Power BI cloud. Goals can be grouped into Scorecards where progress can be easily tracked, reviewed and commented.

These are main benefits of using Goals in Power BI:

All KPIs in one place

Using Goals Scorecard you can create one dashboard that will include all KPIs that are important for your company. No need anymore to check many reports one by one to identify on which KPIs management should focus.

Goals hierarchy

Goals hierarchy can be defined within the Scorecard. This simplifies orientation and navigation through more KPIs levels.

Goals responsibility

Responsible person can be assigned to each Goal. This person then can see all Goals that were assigned to him and managers can quickly identify who is the person with whom they should follow up if KPI…