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Looking for Power BI training near you in Pretoria? BOTI brings the course to you. A facilitator runs the 3-day Microsoft Power BI Basics course in-house at your offices anywhere in Tshwane, from Centurion to Hatfield and Menlyn, or your team joins live online from wherever they sit. You can also browse all BOTI Microsoft Office and computer skills courses, or read on to see what the course covers and how team training works.
We train your staff together, on your data and your reporting realities. That way, the dashboards they build the week after the course are ones your organisation actually uses. You get practical, hands-on skills and a single quote for the whole team. Call 011 882 8853 to discuss your group.
On-site Power BI training, delivered at your Pretoria premises
Most Pretoria organisations do not want to scatter staff across a public venue for a few days. We bring the training to you. A BOTI facilitator runs the full Power BI course at your offices, in a boardroom, a training room or an open-plan corner, wherever your team already sits.
That on-site model suits Tshwane well. A department or state-owned entity may need ten, twenty or fifty people upskilled on the same reporting standard. Sending them off-site one or two at a time is slow and inconsistent. Training the whole unit in-house, on the same days and the same examples, gets everyone reporting the same way much sooner.
We deliver across the metro:
- Centurion: corporate parks, SOE head offices and the technology and engineering firms clustered around the N1 corridor.
- Hatfield: the government, diplomatic and tertiary belt around the Union Buildings and the embassies.
- Menlyn: the financial, retail-head-office and Menlyn Maine node, where data and BI roles are concentrated.
Prefer a blend? We also run live online sessions for teams split across sites or working hybrid. We can mix on-site days with online sessions so nobody loses a full week away from their desk. If you would rather send a few people out of the office, they can attend at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg.
Why Pretoria teams need Power BI skills
Tshwane is the administrative capital, and that shapes the demand for this course. The organisations booking Power BI team training here are rarely after a showpiece dashboard. They are under pressure to report clearly and on time, often from messy source data.
- National and provincial government departments that must consolidate spending, performance and service-delivery data into reports for oversight, audit and the public.
- State-owned entities and public agencies headquartered in and around Centurion that need standardised, repeatable management reporting across divisions.
- Public-sector suppliers, consultancies and engineering firms that win Tshwane contracts and have to report back in a format their clients can read.
- Tertiary institutions, research bodies and financial-services offices around Hatfield and Menlyn that hold large datasets but have few analysts.
In all of these, the bottleneck is the same. Data lives in spreadsheets, exports and disconnected systems, and pulling it into a trustworthy monthly report takes days of skilled time. Power BI lets teams replace that manual work with dashboards that refresh from the source data, and that is what this course teaches.
What the Power BI course teaches
This is a practical, hands-on course. Your team works in Power BI Desktop throughout, building real reports rather than watching slides. Core coverage includes:
- Connecting and importing data from Excel, CSV, databases and online sources.
- Cleaning and shaping data with Power Query, including the duplicates, blanks and inconsistent formats that real public-sector data is full of.
- Building the data model: relationships, tables and a structure that scales.
- DAX fundamentals: calculated columns and measures for totals, ratios, year-on-year and period comparisons.
- Designing dashboards and visuals: charts, tables, maps, slicers and filters that read clearly for managers and oversight committees.
- Publishing and sharing: using the Power BI Service, refreshing data and distributing reports across the team.
Where it helps, the facilitator works through your own reporting scenarios, such as a budget variance report, a service-delivery scorecard or a project-status dashboard, so the skills transfer straight to the job.
Which Power BI option fits your team
Not every team starts from the same place, so it helps to match the course to your people before you book:
- A full grounding for report builders: Microsoft Power BI Basics (3 days) covers data import, Power Query, modelling, DAX basics, visuals and publishing.
- A short introduction for managers or a mixed group: Power BI Foundations: Build Your First Live Report is a 3-hour online masterclass.
- Staff whose Excel needs work first: Excel Pivot Tables, Dashboards and Power Pivot (2 days) builds the summarising skills that make Power BI easier to learn.
- Analysts who want both tools together: Data Analytics Fundamentals with Excel and Power BI (3 days).
Who it’s for
This course suits anyone in your Pretoria team who reports with data: finance and budget officers, management accountants, monitoring-and-evaluation (M&E) staff, project and programme managers, analysts, PMO teams and administrators who currently live in Excel. No coding background is needed. A comfortable working knowledge of Excel is the only real prerequisite.
We can run the course at a foundation pace for a mixed-ability team, or pitch it tighter for analysts who already know their way around a pivot table.
Accreditation
This Power BI course is a practical, facilitator-led programme. It is built to put working dashboard and reporting skills into your team’s hands quickly, on your own data. It is not a qualification and does not carry credits.
Need accredited training? BOTI is a QCTO-accredited Skills Development Provider and offers QCTO occupational certificates. For Excel, Word and PowerPoint, BOTI has applied to the QCTO for accreditation of the End User Computing skills programmes: Basic End User Computing (SP-240201), Intermediate (SP-240202) and Advanced (SP-240203). Enrolment opens only once the QCTO confirms the accreditation, and you can register interest now. Tell us your accreditation requirement when you request a quote, and we will point you to the right route for your team’s roles.
Funding: Skills Development budget and B-BBEE
Power BI training fits naturally into your skills development planning, and for many Pretoria organisations it serves two purposes.
- Skills Development Levy (SDL). The SDL is 1% of the leviable amount, which is your total remuneration.[1] Employers whose leviable amount over the next 12 months will not exceed R500,000 are exempt.[1] If you pay the levy, planning this training in your workplace skills plan helps you get value from that spend.
- B-BBEE skills development. Under the amended generic Codes, the skills development target is 6% of the leviable amount, not “6% of payroll”. Within that target, 3.5% is for learning programmes for black people.[2] Sector codes may differ. Whether and how a particular programme is recognised depends on how it is recorded and verified.
This is general guidance, not financial or legal advice. Your skills development facilitator or B-BBEE consultant should confirm how it applies to your organisation. BOTI cannot promise grants or scorecard points, but we will set out a clear quote and issue certificates of attendance to help with your records.
Frequently asked questions
Is there Power BI training near me in Pretoria?
Yes. BOTI runs Power BI training in-house at your premises anywhere in Tshwane, including Centurion, Hatfield and Menlyn. Teams can also join live online, or delegates can attend at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg.
How many people can you train at once?
The in-house model is built for team training. It suits government departments and state-owned entities that need a group reporting to the same standard. Tell us your headcount and we will size the sessions and the quote to match.
Can the Power BI course use our own data and reports?
Yes. Where it helps, the facilitator builds the hands-on exercises around your actual reporting scenarios, such as budget variance reports, service-delivery scorecards and project dashboards, so the skills transfer straight back to the job.
Does Power BI training count towards B-BBEE and our Skills Development budget?
It can form part of both. Training spend is part of workplace skills planning, and the B-BBEE skills development target is measured against your leviable amount. How it is recognised depends on your records, your sector code and verification, so confirm the details with your skills development facilitator or B-BBEE consultant.
What do participants need before the course?
A comfortable working knowledge of Excel and a laptop that can run Power BI Desktop. No coding or prior BI experience is required.
Book Power BI training for your Pretoria team
Tell us how many people you want trained and where in Tshwane they sit, and we will put together a quote for on-site delivery in Centurion, Hatfield, Menlyn or anywhere across the metro. Send us your team size and preferred dates, or request a quote.
Want to see what is covered before you commit? Ask BOTI to help you check what your team should already have in place, such as Excel skills, software access and sample data, so they get the most from the training.
Related pages
- Pillar: Microsoft Power BI Basics Training Course
- Microsoft Power BI Training in Johannesburg
- Microsoft Power BI Training in Cape Town
- Microsoft Power BI Training in Durban
- Request a quote / booking
The course this article is about is Microsoft Power BI Basics, a 3-day, hands-on course for teams that need to turn spreadsheets and system exports into dashboards people trust. Training runs in-house at your premises, at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg, or live online. Call BOTI on 011 882 8853 or email [email protected]. This course is not accredited. It is delivered as a professional skills programme, and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance.
Sources
- Skills Development Levy – South African Revenue Service (SARS), 2026.
- Codes of Good Practice on B-BBEE: Code Series 300, Statement 300 – Skills Development (Government Gazette 42496) – Department of Trade and Industry, 31 May 2019.