Our Powers Combined: Query, Pivot, Map, and View A quick tour through the 4 pillars of Power BI February 11, 2014

Agenda ◦What is Power BI? ◦Why is Power BI? ◦The 4 pillars: ◦Power Query ◦Power Pivot ◦Power Map ◦Power View ◦DEMO! -Election Data ◦Office 365 integration capabilities

Who am I? ◦Jeff Mlakar, Enterprise Architect BI consultant from Bennett Adelson. ◦Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from the University of Michigan ◦(pause for “boo”s) ◦Bennett Adelson is a strategic managed partner with Microsoft. ◦bennettadelson.com ◦jeffmlakar.com

What is Power BI? ◦Suite of data tools within Excel and Office 365 to enable self-service Business Intelligence ◦Powerful data searching, combining, analyzing, and presenting

Why is Power BI? ◦Your users know the data ◦Your users know Excel ◦Eliminate “Excel Hell”

Power BI’s 4 pillars Power Query: Search and Share a world of data sources to discover the data you need. Power Pivot: Combine data from numerous types of data sources and perform powerful data analysis. Power View: Enable intuitive, ad-hoc reporting in an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience that can easily bring your reports to SharePoint and mobile devices. Power Map: Analyze Geographical data with powerful 3D visualizations.

What we’re going to do on our tour ◦Follow one requirements use case (Election data) through each of the Power BI pillars ◦Along the way, take detours to examine each pillar a little more in depth

Find data external to your company Reference it to data internal to your company Create a 3D map of geographical data Produce a report with all dimensions filterable Have the report touch-enabled on mobile devices Power Query Power Pivot Power Map Power View Power BI Mobile App YOUR REQUIREMENTS

Power BI High-Level Overview Software as a Service Natural Language Query Visualizations Created with Excel 2013

Getting Started ◦Enable Power Pivot and Power View in Excel Addins ◦Download Power Query and Power Map Addins at powerbi.com -> Support -> Getting Started powerbi.com ◦Sign up for Free Trial ◦25 licenses ◦3 months

Power Query ◦Formerly “Data Explorer” ◦Query many data sources ◦Query the Web ◦Wikipedia ◦Data.gov ◦OData feeds ◦Expose your data and allow users to share their own queries ◦JSON parser to query over Big Data / HDInsight

Power Pivot ◦Formerly “PowerPivot” ◦Oldest of the Power BI Pillars (2012) ◦Data stored in local Analysis Services xVelocity (formerly Vertipaq) engine tabular model ◦Allows for sorting of large amounts of data ◦Data calculations via Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

Power Map ◦Formerly “GeoFlow” ◦Create 3D visualizations of geographic and temporal data ◦Build videos based on time dimensions ◦(currently no SQL Server spatial data type support)

Power View ◦Formerly “Crescent” ◦Included in Excel Professional Plus 2013 ◦Build intuitive, interactive reports ◦Publish to Web ◦Interact with your reports through touch-enabled Windows App

Demo: Election Data

Power BI High-Level Overview On Premises Software as a Service Data Refresh Metadata Query Data Discovery Natural Language Query

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Additional Resources ◦powerbi.compowerbi.com ◦Bing: “Power BI Demo Contest” ◦Microsoft and Pragmatic Works present: Atlanta Self Service Power BI Workshop: February 18th - 19th, :30AM to 5:00PM Microsoft Office 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy. Suite 300 Alpharetta, GA 30009

Questions?