Erik Svensen, CatMan Solution A/S From Excel to Power BI Erik Svensen, CatMan Solution A/S

Me am I CTO @ CatMan Solution A/S – supplier of BIAAS Customers within the FMCG and Retail industry Work with Excel, Power BI, SSAS, SSRS, MDX, DAX and M Have been working Power BI since its beginning in the good old Microsoft Query and VBA days Speaker at SQL Saturdays in CPH, Oslo, New York, SQL Nexus PUG Leader – Denmark Power BI User Group Reach me at Twitter: @donsvensen Blog: http://eriksvensen.wordpress.com Mail: es@catmansolution.com

This session will take you through the different elements of Power BI and demonstrate how Power BI can replace your Excel models/reports or use it as a complementary tool in your BI Tool belt. You will be introduced to Excel Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service and after the session you will have a good overview of the different elements in Power BI – all done via different examples highlighting the benefits of combining Excel and Power BI.

Questions for you Any VLOOKUP MASTERS here ? Any MATCH/INDEX MASTERS here ? Any VBA MASTERS here ? Any PowerPivot Masters here ? Any Power BI Desktop users here ?

Elements in Power BI Excel Power BI Desktop Power BI Service Connect to data Get & Transform data (Ribbon) Get data N/A Design a Datamodel Manage data model (Power Pivot) Data Visualize Pivottables, Pivotcharts, Slicers Cube functions Visualizations, Custom Visuals, visual filter, report filters, page filters Publish Email, Save to shared location Save to shared location, publish to app.powerbi.com My Workspace, Workspaces, Apps Refresh Manual or SharePoint refresh Manual Scheduled refreshed Gateway Mobile Power BI Mobile App

And remember Excel 

Demo time

Which languages do you need to learn Get data M – Power Query Language Perhaps a little SQL Model data DAX And forget Vlookup and VBA 

What we didn’t cover Power BI Rest API Power BI Apps Embedding License Gateways to on-premise data Scale your models to Analysis Services (Azure or On-Prem) Custom visuals Integration with Power Apps Streaming Datasets Q & A Power BI On Prem

Next sessions Connect to Data in Power BI Desktop Just Blindbæk Take Your First Steps Towards Power BI by Using DAX Chris Woolderink The Importance of Data Visualization – Tips and Tricks for Standard Visualizations Lasse Matthias

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