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A quick tour through the 4 pillars of Power BI

February 11, 2014

Agenda◦What is Power BI?◦Why is Power BI?◦The 4 pillars:

◦ Power Query◦ Power Pivot◦ Power Map◦ Power View

◦DEMO! -Election Data◦Office 365 integration capabilities

Who am I?

◦ Jeff Mlakar, Enterprise Architect BI consultant from Bennett Adelson.

◦ Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from the University of Michigan

◦ (pause for “boo”s)◦ Bennett Adelson is a strategic managed partner with

Microsoft.◦ bennettadelson.com◦ jeffmlakar.com◦ @JeffMlakar

What is Power BI?

◦Suite of data tools within Excel and Office 365 to enable self-service Business Intelligence

◦Powerful data searching, combining, analyzing, and presenting

Why is Power BI?◦Your users know the data◦Your users know Excel◦Eliminate “Excel Hell”

Power BI’s 4 pillarsPower Query: Search and Share a world of data sources to discover the data you need. Power Pivot: Combine data from numerous types of data sources and perform powerful data analysis. Power View: Enable intuitive, ad-hoc reporting in an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience that can easily bring your reports to SharePoint and mobile devices. Power Map: Analyze Geographical data with powerful 3D visualizations.

What we’re going to do on our tour◦Follow one requirements use case (Election data) through each of the Power BI pillars

◦Along the way, take detours to examine each pillar a little more in depth

•Find data external to your company•Reference it to data internal to your company•Create a 3D map of geographical data•Produce a report with all dimensions filterable•Have the report touch-enabled on mobile devices

Power Query

Power Pivot

Power Map

Power View

Power BI Mobile App

YOUR REQUIREMENTS

Power BI High-Level Overview

Mobile App

Web Browser

Excel Services

Q&A Service

Software as a Service

Power Pivot ServiceExcel 2013 Prof. Plus

Power Pivot PowerQuery

PowerView

Natural

Language

Query

Visualizations

Created with

Excel 2013

PowerMap

Getting Started◦Enable Power Pivot and Power View in Excel Addins◦Download Power Query and Power Map Addins at powerbi.com -> Support -> Getting Started

◦Sign up for Free Trial◦ 25 licenses◦ 3 months

Power Query◦Formerly “Data Explorer”◦Query many data sources◦Query the Web

◦ Wikipedia◦ Data.gov

◦ OData feeds◦Expose your data and allow users to share their own queries◦JSON parser to query over Big Data / HDInsight

Power Pivot◦Formerly “PowerPivot”◦Oldest of the Power BI Pillars (2012)

◦Data stored in local Analysis Services xVelocity (formerly Vertipaq) engine tabular model

◦Allows for sorting of large amounts of data◦Data calculations via Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

Power Map◦Formerly “GeoFlow”◦Create 3D visualizations of geographic and temporal data

◦Build videos based on time dimensions◦(currently no SQL Server spatial data type support)

Power View◦Formerly “Crescent”◦ Included in Excel Professional Plus 2013

◦Build intuitive, interactive reports

◦Publish to Web◦ Interact with your reports through touch-enabled Windows App

Demo: Election Data

Power BI High-Level OverviewOn Premises

Mobile App

Web Browser

Excel Services

Q&A Service

Data Management Gateway

Software as a Service

SQL Server Data Source(s)

Power Pivot Service

Data Refresh Metadata Query

Data Discovery

Excel Pro Plus

Power PivotPowerQuery Power

View

Natural

Language

Query

PowerMap

Pricing

Additional Resources◦ powerbi.com ◦ Bing: “Power BI Demo Contest”◦ Microsoft and Pragmatic Works present:

Atlanta Self Service Power BI Workshop:February 18th - 19th, 2014 8:30AM to 5:00PM

Microsoft Office1125 Sanctuary Pkwy. Suite 300 Alpharetta, GA 30009

Questions?