Post on 21-Jan-2016
What’s New in Power Query for ExcelFaisal MohamoodLead Program Manager
Miguel Llopis Program Manager
DBI-B324
Why Power Query?
What’s New in Power Query?
Coming Soon to Power Query
What we’re going to cover
Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and find internal &
external data
Clean, transform, and shape data
Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology
Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s
Bring your data to life with interactive visualization
Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights
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Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and find internal &
external data
Clean, transform, and shape data
Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology
Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s
Bring your data to life with interactive visualization
Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights
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Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and find internal &
external data
Clean, transform, and shape data
Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology
Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s
Bring your data to life with interactive visualization
Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights
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Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and access internal &
external data
Clean, transform, and shape data
Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology
Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s
Bring your data to life with interactive visualization
Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights
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Current State of the Art
The Data tab
From Access
From Web
From Text
From Text
From Text
From Text
From SQL Server
From SQL Server
From SQL Server
From SQL Server
The Other Data tab
Importing into PowerPivot
Importing into PowerPivot
Importing into PowerPivot
Even more data sources
Even more data sources
And finally….
And finally….
And finally….
Why Power Query?
Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources, including publicly available data of all sizes & shapes.
Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries over any data source, any size.
Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources.
Joins across different data sources; ability to create custom views over data that can then be shared with others in your organization
Demo
DemoComing Soon to Power Query
Related contentSession code
Title Time
[DBI-B410] Deep Dive into Power Query Formula Language
Tuesday May 13th 3.15-4.30 PM
[DBI-B323] Power Query in Modern Corporate BI Wednesday May 14th 3.15PM-4.30 PM
[DBI-B212] BI Power Hour Tuesday May 13th 5PM-6.15 PM
[DBI-B211] All You Need to Know about Microsoft Power BI for Office 365
Monday 1.15 PM-2.30 PM
[DBI-B320] Interactive Data Visualization with Power View
Tuesday May13th 8.30-9.45 AM
Track resources
Download Microsoft SQL Server 2014 http://www.trySQLSever.com
Try out Power BI for Office 365! http://www.powerbi.com
Sign up for Microsoft HDInsight today! http://microsoft.com/bigdata
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