### YamlMime:Tutorial
title: Getting started
metadata:
  title: Getting started | Microsoft Power BI
  description: Learn what Power BI is, how its building blocks work together, and how you can use them to gain insights to your data.
  audience: Business User
  level: Beginner
  nextTutorialHref: gettingdata.yml
  nextTutorialTitle: Getting data
  displayType: one-column
  author: davidiseminger
  manager: kfile
  ms.service: powerbi
  ms.topic: conceptual
  ms.date: 02/26/2019
  ms.author: davidi
items:
- durationInMinutes: 1
  content: |
    In this initial section of **Guided Learning**, you learn what Power BI is, how its building blocks work together, and how you can use them to gain insights to your data.
- title: Introducing Power BI
  durationInMinutes: 5
  content: |
    [!INCLUDE [](includes/0-0-what-is-power-bi.md)]
- title: Using Power BI
  durationInMinutes: 4
  content: |
    > [!Video https://www.youtube.com/embed/1c01r_pAZdk?rel=0]

    [!INCLUDE [](includes/0-1-intro-using-power-bi.md)]
- title: The building blocks of Power BI
  durationInMinutes: 6
  content: |
    [!INCLUDE [](includes/0-0b-building-blocks-power-bi.md)]
- title: A quick look at the Power BI service
  durationInMinutes: 9
  content: |
    > [!Video https://www.youtube.com/embed/5srP3h3RJf8?rel=0]

    [!INCLUDE [](includes/0-3-dashboards-cloud-services.md)]
- title: Review and what's next
  durationInMinutes: 5
  content: |
    [!INCLUDE [](includes/0-4-summary-of-intro-to-power-bi.md)]
- content: |
    You've completed the **Getting started** section of Microsoft Power BI Guided learning. Way to go! Now you can move on to the next part of Guided Learning, which is **Getting data**. Select the **Getting data** button below to keep going.