Superhero Power BI Peter Myers Bitwise Solutions

Defining Business Intelligence

A broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions

BI is no longer a luxury afforded by a larger companies — it is now considered an essential part of the IT portfolio

Data Sources Staging Area Manual Cleansing Data Marts Data Warehouse Client Access 1: Clients need access to data 2: Clients may access data sources directly 3: Data sources can be mirrored/replicated to reduce contention 4: The data warehouse manages data for analyzing and reporting 5: Data warehouse is periodically populated from data sources 6: Staging areas may simplify the data warehouse population 7: Manual cleansing may be required to cleanse dirty data 8: Clients use various tools to query the data warehouse

Demo Exploring a Power BI Solution

Introducing Microsoft Business Intelligence

Information Platform Data Warehousing Integration Services Master Data Data Quality Analysis Services Data Modeling and Data Mining Reporting Services Integrated Content and Collaboration Thin Clients Dashboards BI Search Content Management Familiar User Experience Self-Service Access and Insight Data Exploration and Analysis Predictive Analysis Data Visualization Contextual Visualization Business User Experience Business Collaboration Platform Information Platform

Note: The next generation of Power BI tools (in preview) disconnect from Office and Excel

Access Clean Mash-up Explore Visualize Share Power View Power Map

Demo Exploring a Conventional Excel Solution

Developing Power BI Solutions

Data Modeling with Power Pivot

Optional

Demo Introducing Power Pivot

Data Acquisition with Power Query

Demo Introducing Power Query

Power Pivot Reporting

Covered in later topics

Charts Embedded images Conditional formatting Slicers Timelines Sparklines Hyperlinks Outlining CUBE functions Apps for Office

Demo Reporting with the Excel CUBE Functions

Data Visualization with Power View

Demo Introducing Power View

Data Visualization with Power Map

Optional

Demo Introducing Power Map

Power BI Sharing and Collaboration

Microsoft Azure SQL Database SQL Server in a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine OData services: Basic or anonymous authentication SharePoint lists Project Online feeds Internet AccessibleOn-Premises SQL Server 2005 and above Oracle 10g, 11g and 11gR2 Power Query connections to these data sources: SQL Server 2005 and above Oracle 10g, 11g and 11gR2

Demo Exploring the Power BI Site

Next Generation Power BI (Preview)

Power Pivot Power View Power Query

Live Connectivity

Summary

Unleash the Superhero in You!

Analyze Visualize Discover Search and combine public and internal data with Power Query Model & analyze 100’s of millions of rows lightning fast with Power Pivot Explore and visualize data in new ways with Power View and Power Map

Share queries & workbooks and refresh from on-premises data with BI Sites Find answers with search-based data visualization in Q&A Stay connected from anywhere with HTML5 and the Power BI mobile app Share Find Q&AQ&A Mobile

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