Using Microsoft Flow with Power BI As Serverless Middleware to Turbo-Boost your Power-BI John Liu

About John Liu SharePoint Gurus dev, consultant, blogger, community (Sydney & Australia) SharePoint/O365 usergroups, Saturday, conf FlowUG* MVP Office Services (SharePoint) MVP Business Solutions (Flow) john.liu@sharepointgurus.net twitter.com/@johnnliu #FlowNinja https://johnliu.net

Plan Introduce Microsoft Flow Demos Discussions End – afternoon tea?! What it is, what it does Quick Demo mobile Flow Architecture, where does it sit Pricing Demos Discussions End – afternoon tea?!

Architecture – what Flow really is The story of Microsoft Flow It is linked to Logic Apps It is linked to BizTalk It is linked to Azure Integration Services It is also IFTTT/Zapier It replaces Dynamic / SharePoint workflows

Demo HTTP Request and Response Get File Get Football

Demo ETL Moving Binary Add additional cognitive services ListDataAsStream http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2018/06/30/some- seriously-powerful-and-free-pdf-functionality-in-powerapps-and-flow-part-1/

Demo – Trigger on Data Alert https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/turn-insight-into-deep- meaningful-action-using-microsoft-flow-and-power-bi/

Demo – Push into Streaming Dataset https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/push-rows-to-a-power-bi- streaming-dataset-without-writing-any-code-using-microsoft-flow/ Demo by: Kawabata Yoshihiro

Numbers Data Sources:70+ Refresh: Scheduled 15mins+, LiveQuery Power BI Microsoft Flow Data Sources:70+ Refresh: Scheduled 15mins+, LiveQuery Special Powers: Pivot (PowerQuery & DAX), Visualization, Drill in Connectors: 200+ Refresh: Anytime you fancy Special Powers: Parallel, Asynchronous, Serverless, Event Driven, Low-Code processes and automation, Auth “Power-Flow” Power-Flow is one of the codenames for Microsoft Flow – it was not the final name

Learning – 3 tips Data Types in Microsoft Flow (and LogicApps) For Every Actions There Is An Output Expressions

Data Types number, integer, Boolean binary, XML, JSON string datetime string, email string, url string

For Every Actions There Is An Output Flow – flows data Data doesn’t only live in variables. It lives in every action – the ActionBody()

Expressions “No Code” vs “Low Code” aka.ms/logicexpressions Why do we need this? - manipulate data between actions. variable names = [ { “name”: “John”, “age”: 39 }, { “name”: “Andrew” } ] names[0].name first(names).name names[1]?.age concat(first(names).name, ‘Liu’) http://johnliu.net/blog/2018/4/test-yourself-a-microsoftflow-expressions- quiz

Expressions… do you need Do we really need this? e.g. Date Connector

Scenario Building Information Client Pull data from Autodesk Forge BIM 360 API C# code through SSIS – 10+hours Parallel Flow – continuous Free up the database server Future – delta query – update only changes Future – webhooks – update on demand

Scenario Office 365 Resource Creation and Governance Trigger from tenant admin Office 365 Message Admin Centre & Azure AD

Scenario Ticketing system from ServiceNow PowerBI dashboard

Scenario – Power Family Imagine a Power BI Dashboard Use PowerApps as a Low Code custom visual in Power BI, select data row in Power BI and filter the PowerApps visual Enter some data in PowerApps - when submit button clicked – send data back to Microsoft Flow to execute new actions (email, call new connectors, update data source etc) Embed the solution anywhere you like: Office 365, or Dynamics or your own web page

Demo PowerBI Gateway for on-premises data Minecraft

Summary What is Microsoft Flow Where it might fit with your toolkit with your PowerBI Story May be proof of concept – extreme rapid prototype & development Internal-only dashboards – extremely fast to set up “No Cliff Development” upsize into LogicApps, and/or add AzureFunctions May be use this to supplement your existing Data Refresh, or integrate with DataFlow or Data Bricks There is no one-size-fits-all prescription, but Microsoft Flow is a seriously flexible and powerful tool you already have – so you should consider diving deeper into it. “Check out the iceberg”

resources https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/guided-learning/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-flow-integration https://aka.ms/logicexpressions https://johnliu.net/microsoft-flow/ @johnnliu #FlowNinja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZVqM-lU7Og&t=2027s

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