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Instructor: So let's talk about external tools

in Power BI.

Now, these tools allow quick access

to third-party tools that are locally installed

on your computer and registered with Power BI.

It's really important to note that the External tools menu

on Power BI desktop will not appear

unless those two conditions are met

for third-party tools that you're trying to add.

Once they're installed on your local machine,

you'll be able to access them directly

from this External tool menu.

And here you can see that I've added three tools,

Bravo, DAX Studio, and Tabular Editor.

Now there are many, many more tools

across different categories, and generally these tools

fall into one of the following categories,

semantic modeling, data analysis, and then miscellaneous.

Now, the semantic modeling tools are great

for extending Power BI's functionality,

like digging deeper into your DAX optimizations,

application lifecycle management,

advanced data modeling scenarios,

metadata translation, and much, much more.

So some common examples of tools in this category

are DAX Studio, ALM Toolkit,

Tabular Editor, and Bravo.

Up next we've got our data analysis tools

and these are really all

about connecting Power BI data models

to client applications in a read-only mode

to query and perform different data analysis tasks.

So some common tools or integrations here

are with Python, Excel, and Power BI Report Builder.

And finally, we have the miscellaneous category,

which contains tools like PBI.tips tutorials,

DAX Guide, PowerBI.tips, and much more.

And these tools are all

about making Power BI more accessible and useful

but they don't actually connect

to raw data or the data model.

They're really just for informative sources.

Now, you can also check out the URL

at the bottom of the slide here for more details

about the types of third-party tools that are supported

and what they do exactly.

If you're looking for a starting point,

I'd recommend downloading the most recent version

of DAX Studio and really digging

into the capabilities of the tool.

It's seriously cool

and can help you dive deeper into your DAX optimizations.

All right, so that's gonna wrap things up

for this lecture and for the course.

If this is your first interaction with Power BI,

your journey is really just starting with the tool.

On behalf of both Chris and myself,

it's been our pleasure teaching you Power BI

and we can't wait to see what you create

with what you've learned so far.

Enjoy the bonus project.

We'll see you in the next course, and learn on.