1. Looking for the Power BI on-prem alternative?
@USAFmjscott

2. Here is the session ABSTRACT:
Do you like Power BI – but your company is not ready to move to the CLOUD? In this session we will be covering the On-Prem Power BI alternative that Microsoft has endorsed: *Pyramid Analytics BI Office*.
We will discuss architecture considerations; use cases; integration points with Power BI, SharePoint on-prem, and SSRS; Tabular Modeling on-the-fly; and even consumption of data from Azure ML!
Do you want to allow your business users to build Tabular models on the fly, or connect to your multi-dimensional cubes - and visualize them immediately? Come and hear about how you can do all of this and more with Pyramid Analytics BI Office suite.

3. <<structure: top half describes alliance; bottom half states Pyramid’s value>>
Call to action: invite participants to visit Pyramid’s at the event exhibit and our website
Strategic Collaboration: Pyramid Analytics and Microsoft, building on a history of years in partnership, formed a strategic collaboration (announced July/2015) consisting of:
Development Collaboration: Pyramid Analytics has helped develop a range of new features to advance Power BI Desktop
In-product Integration for Easy Sharing:
<<call attention to screenshot to show that…>>
after creating content in PowerBI Desktop, it comes time to publish to share and collaborate.
User has 2 options: to publish to PowerBI service in the cloud, or to Pyramid Analytics on-premises
The two companies are working to have Power BI Desktop files published to Pyramid Analytics on-premises server – and also be able to triangulate publishing from Pyramid to PowerBI service in the cloud
Go-To-Market Coordination: Pyramid helps organizations vested in the Microsoft data stack to spotlight and extend investments in sophisticated data models
Pyramid’s value proposition:
With Pyramid’s enterprise BI platform (called BI Office), organizations looking to keep BI workloads on premises, or private clouds, get the most of their investments in SSAS’s sophisticated multi-dimensional and tabular models; and expand BI adoption via governed sharing of analytics content.
<<in more detail>>
Profile of customers that will benefit from Pyramid’s on-premises solution to scale collaborative BI:
Enterprise customer (EPG major or CAM E; SMS&P CAM S), with >500 desktops
Wishes to keep BI on-premises or private cloud ((ex: IaaS in Azure)
Has substantial SSAS investments to leverage, protect, and grow
Requires enterprise-grade governance, scalability and security
Envisions content sharing across departments, user personas, workflows
Solution involves complex models, shared business logic, strong mobile support
Dedicated BI team/initiative owner
BI Office, in summary:
Turnkey enterprise analytics solution: Integrated modules to analyze, monitor, report data (called Data Discovery, Dashboards, Publisher)
Easy to self-serve and share trusted BI content: Customers successfully expand BI adoption via governed sharing of analytics content, reports, data models, business logic, and more – across the enterprise
Architected for scale, governance & collaboration: Server-centric solution fulfills IT’s and Business User’s needs for agile, easy-to-use, and self-served analytics coupled with governance, security, and scalability
Best-in-class on Microsoft SQL and SSAS: Lights up SSAS interactivity of multi-dimensional cubes and in-memory tabular models, protecting and extending investments in sophisticated models on Microsoft data stack

4. SharePoint 2016 - Changes Excel Services in SharePoint
Excel Services and its associated business intelligence capabilities are no longer available in SharePoint Server.
The following Excel Services functionality has been deprecated:
Trusted data providers
Trusted file locations
Trusted data connection libraries
Unattended service account
Excel Services Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Opening of Excel workbooks from SharePoint Central Administration site
The following Excel Services functionality requires Excel Online in Office Online Server Preview:
Viewing and editing Excel workbooks in a browser (with or without the Data Model)
Excel Web Access web part for SharePoint
ODC file support (no longer requires Data Connection Librariees)
Programmability features such as JavaScript OM, User Defined Function Assemblies, SOAP and REST protocol support
From here:   
Performance Point Services (BI in Sharepoint):  is being “back ported” to work in Sharepoint 2016 – but the support lifecycle is not being extended:

5. Power BI On Premise Announcement
In SQL 2016 SSRS will offer:
Paginated Reports
Mobile Reports (Formerly DataZen)
Beyond SQL 2016 SSRS will add:
Power BI Reports

6. What does this mean?
SSRS will add a report type to distribute PowerBI Desktop reports
This will:
Require the Power BI Reports to be converted and deployed to SSRS
SSDT or Visual Studio
Be interactive within the report
No additional Self-Service capability
No reuse of data model or business rules within other SSRS reports

7. Summary
Basic on-premise Power BI distribution to augment SSRS deployments
Microsoft still intends to make PowerBI the best Cloud service for BI available
Pyramid Analytics has an enterprise grade on-premise solution for Microsoft BI today
Pyramid Analytics will have publish Power BI to BI Office in conjunction with the SQL 2016 launch with data model and business logic reuse

8. USE CASES? For these two scenarios:
1)You (or your customer) needs private cloud on-premise or IaaS or Customer has substantial SSAS investment that needs to be leveraged and protected*
and
2) An enterprise deployment with challenging requirements for scalability, security, or delivery of content across multiple personas and workflows or verticals or solutions that require shared business logic
* What about SharePoint?
* What about SharePoint??
USE CASES?

9. BI Office – What the Heck is it???
One Platform: Analytics, Dashboards, and Publishing
For the Business User:
MS Office-like UX == > high adoption, low training
Easy-to-use modeling, analytics, reporting, visualizations
Rapid adoption, broad user base: beyond data analyst
For the IT Department:
Supports existing investment in the MSFT BI stack
Maintains data governance policies
Lowest TCO, easy rollout

10. Microsoft / Pyramid Analytics Overview “On-PREM and CLOUD READY”
Databases and other data sources
Microsoft Ignite 2015
4/27/2017 6:31 PM
Microsoft / Pyramid Analytics Overview “On-PREM and CLOUD READY”
Power BI Cloud Portal
Power BI
Web browser
HTML
Business analyst tools
Power BI Designer
YOUR Data on-prem
SQL Server analysis services
Mobile apps
iOS
Pyramid Analytics on-prem
Pyramid Analytics
SLIDE OPENER: Microsoft – with our Alliance Partner Pyramid – is bringing you the best of both worlds. We are ON-PREM TODAY and CLOUD READY. When RCCL is ready for the cloud – we are ready to take you there.
Discuss RCCL Current Data ON-PREM
Discuss Adding SSAS – and connecting to their ORCL EDW – utilizing ROLAP / MOLAP / HOLAP
Business Analyst TODAY – would use Pyramid Analytics – We will demo these 3 components to you: Data Discovery, Dashboards, Publisher
You will Publish on-prem to the Pyramid Analytics Server – and CONSUME Via our Web Engine, and all our mobile clients, or RCCL can WRAP into your mobile App via HTML5
Coming in December / January Time-frame. Your Analysts will be able to publish PBI Desktop Dashboards (no reports per se – just a dashboard) to the Pyramid Analytics Server – OR- Start looking at the cloud – ALL WITH THE SAME DATA – NO CHANGES. SSAS / SSRS Stays the Same.
Additionally – UNLIKE our competition – users will be able to connect to the data models build in the Pyramid / MSFT Stack – WITH EXCEL – and use Power Pivot, Power Query, Etc… Competing Products are Typically closed.
Wrap All of this with Governed Data Discovery (see different slide), Native Active Directory, Secure, Scalable SQL Server Platform.
Integration Points: SSRS, URL Addressable, SSAS (MD and Tabular), Power BI Desktop,
SharePoint, Performance Point Services, and ProClarity
© 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

11. Publish to Pyramid Power BI Service Power BI Pyramid Desktop BI Office
PBIX
Publish to
Pyramid
Managed
Keep
Live Connect
Upload
Embedded Model
Power BI
PBIX
Combination
BI Office &
Power BI Content
Live Connect
Live Connect
SQL
2016
SQL
2012+
SQL
2005/8

12. Architecture Cross Platform Client Multi-tier Server MS BI Stack
Front End
Web Based, Desktop Like
Deep, Advanced Analytics
Fully Self-Service
Point-and-click, no code
User driven data modeling
Shared content / business logic
Build Once - Use Everywhere
ALL operating systems and browsers
Web-based Admin Console
Cross Platform Client
PC/Mac/iOS /Android/WinRT+WP8
Data Modeling
Data Discovery
Dash-boarding
Publishing
& Alerting
Predictive & Data Mining
Centralized, Web based Admin
Centralized Content/Security
Backend
MS BI Stack
Multi-tier Server
Web Server
Router
Application
Publisher
Scale up/out
Fail-over / Load Balanced
Cloud-Based Architecture
Multi-Tenant, supports SaaS
Scheduling & Publishing engine
Data models built back into SSAS

13. Greatest Momentum for Vision & Execution
2014 Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics Platforms
2015 Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics Platforms

14. BI Office – Complete Analytics Solution
BI Office has the familiar interface of Office – however, we have a completely integrated suite that seamlessly works together
Data Discovery: Visualizations are the key to uncovering new patterns, trends and insights. Data Discovery has exceptional filtering, sorting, interactive and context sensitive visual analytic capabilities. With over 20 animated and interactive chart types, 30 variations of multi-charts, dual axis charts and geospatial mapping, Data Discovery users delight in exploring an endless array of visualizations to explore and tell a story.
Dashboards: Empowers every user to build beautiful, simple, drag-and-drop, slice and dice, dashboards that tell a story to make your point. It not only is easy to create but also to distribute and enlighten your audience with fully interactive, gorgeous dashboards on the web, on your favorite mobile device or even live within PowerPoint. Conditional displays and slicers can be used to dynamically change views for enhancing dashboard experiences.
With Publisher, grids, charts, maps and other items can be dropped onto the page and descriptive text can dynamically flow around objects to get the exact format you want. This allows every user to add a descriptive narrative which enriches the reports and the story of your data. This seamless integration of both text and visuals enhances your reports for all levels of your organization.

15. DEMO

16. APPENDIX

17. Platform Capability Comparison
Typical Scenario
My Company is looking for an Enterprise BI solution covering Analytics, Dashboards, and Report Publishing
My team needs departmental canned dashboards and reports that should be IT independent
My department needs a quick analytics tool for the business users, so we are independent from IT
BI Platform Capabilities
Mobility
Dashboards
Analytics & Ad-hoc
Data Modeling
Narrative Report Publishing
Enterprise Performance & Scalability
* Source: Pyramid Analytics

18. SQL Analysis Services Compatibility
SQL SSAS Compatibility
Native Connector to SSAS
Interactivity w/SSAS Models
Optimizes SSAS Capabilities – Tabular and Cubes
Data mash-up wizard for SSAS Tabular Models
SSAS Drill-through & Actions
Set and Calculation Wizards
Missing Data Wizard
* Source: Pyramid Analytics

19. Governed Data Discovery
Personal Productivity
Self Service Data Discovery
End User Provisioned Data Sources
End User Authored Business Logic
Enterprise Performance
Centrally managed, auditable role based security
Scalable Enterprise Infrastructure
Usage transparency and Logging
Organizational Success
Accessible for business users
Available Anytime, Anywhere
Shared Business Content and Rules
* Source: Pyramid Analytics

20. Cloud + Devices + Services
Use on ANY device
Build once, use everywhere
Cloud Hosted Application
Multi-tenancy
Scalable Server architecture
Suits:
In-company cloud
Private cloud
public cloud
Data Sourced Optimized
On-prem and cloud hosted data
SaaS data sources

21. Self-service to rapid, high performance queries
BI Office: Integrated Analytics Platform
Self-service to rapid, high performance queries

22. Interact with intuitive, on-the-go visualizations
BI Office: Integrated Analytics Platform
Interact with intuitive, on-the-go visualizations

23. Design and spread data storytelling
BI Office: Integrated Analytics Platform
Design and spread data storytelling

24. Thank you