Victoria Power BI User Group Meeting October 2017

What’s New and Exciting with Power BI Agenda Introductions What’s New and Exciting with Power BI Desktop (Oct 2017) Service and Mobile (Sept 2017) Streaming Power BI Datasets BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard Demo Question and Answer 

Introductions The Power BI User group started meeting in October 2016. We now have over 50 members.

Power BI Desktop (Oct 2017) Feature Set Review – Dave Jaycock Reporting Analytics Bookmarking (preview) Selection pane and visual display controls Bookmark links for shapes and images (preview) Spotlight Scatter & bubble markers Increase the number of data points shown in scatter charts Quick measures for SSAS live connections Sales from new customers quick measure Cell-level formatting for multidimensional AS models Data connectivity Vertica connector (beta) SAP BW connector: support for additional member properties Other Power BI Desktop in the Windows Store Improved access to help content https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-october-2017-feature-summary/

Power BI Service and Mobile (Sept 2017) Feature Set Review – Dave Jaycock Service and Mobile Updates Share dashboards to free users with Premium Allocate capacities to suit your business needs with v-core pooling Instantly scale-up or scale-down capacities with one click PubNub block to easily push data into REST APIs September update for On-premises data gateway Filter reports on the go on Power BI Mobile Cross platform Visio support Improved load performance for usage metrics https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-service-and-mobile-september-feature-summary/

Streaming Datasets and Power BI Streaming vs Batch Not necessarily IOT or Big Data

Streaming Datasets and Power BI .Net Emulator Azure IOT Hub REST API Power Bi Dataset Azure Stream Analytics Job Power Bi Dataset

BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard Current BC Courts Dashboards need to be replaced by Dec 31, 2017. One of the options is switching to a Power BI Dashboard. However, there are pros and cons.

BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard Pros Cons Interactive visualizations Bubble map captures all court locations using latitude and longitude Customize the colours of data points in map enable us to show 5 regions. Import and update source tables directly from Oracle Server User friendly product Tabs are replaced by page numbers after publishing to web. Not able to customize tooltips on map. Other Power BI has tight integration with other Microsoft business tools https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMTEwZWQ5N2YtZGJhNy00N2E4LTk0Y2YtZDRmZTQxMDZkMDk4IiwidCI6IjZmZGI1MjAwLTNkMGQtNGE4YS1iMDM2LWQzNjg1ZTM1OWFkYyJ9

BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard

BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard

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