BI in the cloud, is it possible? Sure is with Azure! Rob Hawthorne M352

Planning for the Cloud Considerations for loading data Overview and demo Azure Data Factory What, why and how Overview and demo Visualisation and Reporting Power BI Overview and demo

… data warehousing has reached the most significant tipping point since its inception. The biggest, possibly most elaborate data management system in IT is changing. – Gartner, “The State of Data Warehousing in 2012” Data sources

5 Increasing data volumes 1 Real- time data 2 Non-Relational Data New data sources & types 3 Cloud-born data 4

New-AzureDataFactory -Name “HaloTelemetry“ -Location “West-US“ New-AzureDataFactory -Name “GameTelemetry“ -Location “West-US“

New-AzureDataFactoryLinkedService -Name "MyHDInsightCluster“ -DataFactory“GameTelemetry" -File HDIResource.json New-AzureDataFactoryLinkedService -Name "MyStorageAccount" -DataFactory“GameTelemetry" -File BlobResource.json

“GeoCoded Game Usage” Table:

Pipeline Definition:

// Deploy Table New-AzureDataFactoryTable -DataFactory“GameTelemetry“ -File NewUserActivityPerRegion.json // Deploy Pipeline New-AzureDataFactoryPipeline -DataFactory “GameTelemetry“ -File NewUserTelemetryPipeline.json // Start Pipeline Set-AzureDataFactoryPipelineActivePeriod -Name “NewUserTelemetryPipeline“ -DataFactory “GameTelemetry“ -StartTime 10/29/ :00:00

"availability": { "frequency": "Day", interval": 1 } Hourly GameUsage Activity: (e.g. Hive) :

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Automation & Management Data Transformation & Movement Execution Layer (Data Storage & Processing) Automation/Coordination Layer (Coordination, Scheduling, Management) Low Frequency $0.60$0.48$1.50$1.20 High Frequency $1.00$0.80$2.50$ activities100+ activities0-100 activities100+ activities CloudOn Premises HDInsight (hrs) Compute/VM (hrs) Data Transfer (GB) ADF Pricing Per Month Resources Used to Execute Activities in a Pipeline: Note: public preview = 50% discount on the rates shown above

Elastic for SQL NZ3 Fri 11:55am Telling Stories with Data Marlborough Fri 9:00am Architecting the Internet of Things NZ1 Fri 1:55pm Introduction to Microsoft Hololens SKYCITY Theatre Thurs 4:30pm Azure Machine Learning Marlborough Fri 10:40am Find me later at…  Hub Happy Hour Thu 5:30-6:30pm  Closing drinks Fri 3:00-4:30pm  And maybe the pub!

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