"The first release of Power BI was based on the Microsoft Excel-based add-ins: Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

"The first release of Power BI was based on the Microsoft Excel-based add-ins: Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Power_BI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Power_BI) Power Query is the only part of this that has seemed useful to me. The Data Model and DAX in particular seemed to me like distractions that I wasted time on before discovering the M language. Saying Power Query is mostly unrelated demonstrates that the confusion is not all mine.