Power BI Solutions for California Colleges Joe McGinn Microsoft Enterprise Platform Architect Nuventive

How to have a tax free MILLION DOLLARS!! The BI Demo Lie How to have a tax free MILLION DOLLARS!! All of these beautiful, robust, interactive, web-based dashboards and reports can be yours today!! We’ve removed ALL the complexity !! Just plug in, turn on, connect to all your data… …and brace for stardom as you begin to uncover incredible new insights that transform your institution…and probably the WORLD! FIRST! …Get a million dollars THEN…….

The BI Reality BI HAS come a long way in a short time. …so much so Gartner has completely redefined it. The cloud DOES change everything. Creating robust, interactive dashboards over your data and uncovering new strategic insights IS easier than it’s ever been. …BUT getting the data together is STILL COMPLEX…and TIME CONSUMING.

BI Tools are Better Than Ever Power BI and Tableau Both are robust and easy to use. Both are great if you have a mature EDW to plug in. Tableau has best visuals, but… …not a great ‘mashup’ tool and can get expensive. Power BI visuals catching up quickly and also an EPIC mashup tool. … but Power BI Templates + Azure Automation + ADLA + ADLS + ADF changes everything!

Power BI Mashups Enrollment and first term enrollment (SB15=1) by term and ethnicity Show publish to web Demo

What is IE/IR’s Highest and Best Use?!? Mashup: Days to Analysis Template: Minutes to Analysis

Jump Straight to Creating Insightful, Interactive Visuals in Power BI Publish & Share in Multiple Places Power BI Service Embedded in web sites (IE, CCCCO, etc.) Apps like Nuventive’s Action Point Other

Simple, Self-Help Data Refresh Process Simply drag/drop raw MIS files into (free) Azure Explorer app on the desktop…that’s it! All MIS DED field values already stored in Azure SQL Database Semantic model contains relationships, measures and KPI calculations. Updated MIS files are automatically run through the semantic model and reflected in all published datasets, dashboards & reports.

End to End: College Level Solution MIS files uploaded to secure Azure Storage Account Cloud ETL via Azure Data Lake Analytics Grabs raw MIS files Processes in ADLA utilizing U-Sql Drops processed files back to Azure Storage Account Semantic model hosted directly in Power BI Contains relationships and measure definitions Pulls processed MIS files from Azure Storage Pulls dimension data directly from Azure SQL Dataset and all reports auto- refresh Role based and row-level security 9

Power BI Templates Show publish to web Demo

Solution Benefits Simple, quick and highly customizable reporting of disaggregated MIS data elements in Power BI. Automate redundant, manually intensive and error prone data staging efforts. Free up valuable analyst cycles to focus on new, strategic institutional insights to improve student outcomes.

Solution Benefits Complex measures handled in the semantic model (MDX/DAX) Easily extendable to non-MIS data sources. Fully deployed in 1-2 days…we’re told it saves the colleges using it more time than that every month.