What is Power BI?

Angela Henry  Angela is a DBA/BI Developer, living in High Point, NC and loves what she does. She's worked with all versions of SQL Server & worn all the hats that come with dealing with SQL Server throughout the years: developer, administrator, data architect and BI developer.  She earned her MSCE: Business Intelligence in  She volunteers with PASS in various capacities, ranging from Program Committee to cleanup at local SQL Saturday events.  She is also the chapter leader for the PASS Triad SQL User Group in Greensboro, NC.  In her spare time you can probably find her in the pool, she's an avid US Masters swimmer.

Overview  The What/Who/Why/Flavors  What is Power BI  Why use Power BI  Who can use Power BI  Flavors of Power BI  How of Power BI  Dashboards  Reports  Datasets

What is Power BI?  Power BI is an amazing business analytics service that enables anyone to visualize and analyze data.  Microsoft Power BI is a collection of online services and features that enables you to find and visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways.  Flavors of Power BI  Power BI Free  Power BI Pro

Why Power BI?  To see, in one glance, all the information needed to make decisions  To monitor the most-important information about their business  To ensure all colleagues are on the same page, viewing and using the same information  You don’t have a full time report writer at your company  Your IT department doesn’t have time to create “pretty” reports  You want something quick and EZ

Who Can User Power BI?  Based on address  Allowed  School  Work  Not allowed  Personal  Government/military  Telecom/ISP

Flavors of Power BI Free  Data refresh frequency: Daily  Data capacity Limit: 1GB/user  Streaming rate: 10K rows/hour  Data sources are limited to content packs for services and importing files Pro  Data refresh frequency: Hourly  Data Capacity Limit: 10GB/user  Streaming rate: 10M rows/hour  Data Sources include free ones plus direct query dataset and on- premises data  Collaboration with content packs

Building Blocks of Power BI  Dashboards  Reports  Datasets

Dashboard Parts 1. Navigation Pane 2. Dashboard with tiles 3. Q&A text box 4. Help/Feedback buttons 5. Dashboard Title 6. Office 365 Launcher 7. Power BI Home *Graphic courtesy of MS Power BI site

Dashboards  Tiles

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Reports  Create from scratch within Power BI  Create from scratch in Power BI Desktop  Import from shared dashboards  Created for you when you connect to datasets from Excel, Power BI Desktop, databases, and SaaS applications and content packs  Can be associated with more than one dashboard

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Datasets  Import  Files  Local  OneDrive  SharePoint – Team Sites  Connect  Services  WebTrends  SalesForce  Google Analytics  Databases  Azure SQL Database  Azure SQL Data Warehouse  SQL Server Analysis Services (Tabular)  Content Pack

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Widgets  Image  Text box  Video  Web content

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Q & A Question Box  Allows you to ask questions about your data in natural language  Comes with common synonyms and phrasings  Aggregations (less than, maximum, number of, …)  Date keywords and ranges (last month, this year, before, after,…)  Plurals (opportunity & opportunities)  Display verbs (show, is, what is, are, what are)  Create your own synonyms and phrasings

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