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What is Power BI v2?  New Microsoft Business Intelligence product line  Aimed at business power users and end-users  Rich interactive reports, dashboards, charts, graphs, and maps  Minimize clicks to complete tasks  Open source/custom visualizations (D3, HTML5, and CSS3)  Remove Office 365 & SharePoint Online Requirements (Power BI v1)

History of Power BI  PowerPivot – Excel add-in using xVelocity (Vertipaq) columnar engine  SQL Server 2012 SSAS Tabular Model  Microsoft BI Semantic Model (BISM)  PowerView  Re-branding to Power BI (notice the space)  SharePoint and Office 365 integration (Q&A, Power Query, and Power Map)  Power BI v2 Preview (December 2014)  Power BI v2 Service & Desktop GA (July 2015)  SQL Server 2016 RC1 (March 2016)

What is Power BI Desktop? According to Microsoft: Power BI Desktop puts visual analytics at your fingertips with intuitive report authoring. Drag-and-drop to place content exactly where you want it on the flexible and fluid canvas. Quickly discover patterns as you explore a single unified view of linked, interactive visualizations. Source:

What is Power BI Desktop?  Standalone design/development/rendering app with deployment to Power BI Service  Currently integrates: Power Query Power Pivot Power View * Not all features of each yet, but updates each month, closing the gap  New Power BI Desktop file extension.pbix

What is Power BI v2?  PowerBI.com & Power BI Desktop  Access on-prem sources: SQLOracleTeradata MySQLPostgreSQLSybase Analytics Platform Service (APS, includes PDW) IBM DB2HDFSAnd more!  Online data sources – Azure  Built-in connectors for SaaS: SalesforceGoogle AnalyticsGitHub ZendeskSAPAnd more!

Demo  Power BI Desktop  PowerBI.com PowerBI.com

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Future Cross Platform Support (Windows 10 Universal, iOS & Android) Cross Browser Support (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) Active Directory Security Integration Separation from v1 tools in Excel 2016 Pyramid Analytics Integration (onsite solution) Custom Visualizations (including R Visuals) Integration with SharePoint (Publish to Web as of 2/3) Enterprise Gateway (GA as of 2/2) Unknowns  SQL Server 2016 integration (RC1 as of 3/24)  Integrate Power Map (~Map Visualization)  More SaaS connectors? (at least 1 per week so far)

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