1. Self-Service Data Integration with Power Query Stéphane Fréchette

2. Who am I? My name is Stéphane Fréchette SQL Server MVP | Data & Business Intelligence Solutions Architect | Consultant | Speaker | Big Data | NoSQL | Data Science. Drums, good food and fine wine. Founder @TEDxGatineau@TEDxGatineau I have a passion for architecting, designing and building solutions that matter. Twitter: @sfrechette@sfrechette Blog: stephanefrechette.comstephanefrechette.com Email: stephanefrechette@ukubu.comstephanefrechette@ukubu.com SQLSaturday Boston #364

3. Topics  What is Power Query?  Who should use Power Query?  Power BI Designer...  Sources, Transformations and Destinations - “ETL”  Power Query Formula Language (M)  Demos  Resources  Q&A SQLSaturday Boston #364

4. Self-Service Data Integration 46% “engaging in self-service tasks” 26% “planning to do so in the future” Source: BI Survey 2014 - BARC’s annual survey of over 3,000 business intelligence professionals SQLSaturday Boston #364

5. Challenges with Data Discovery Exploring, finding and connecting to data is somewhat difficult Data often needs to be cleansed and reshaped before being consumed and analyzed Any shaping is one-off and sometimes not repeatable Combining and merging data from multiple sources is not an easy task Volume, Velocity, Variety and Variability… (Big Data) SQLSaturday Boston #364

7. Enable self-service data discovery, query, transformation and mashup experiences for Information Workers, via Excel and PowerPivot Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources, spanning volume as well as variety of data. Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries over any data source, any size. Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources. Joins across different data sources; ability to create custom views over data that can then be shared with team/department. What is Power Query? SQLSaturday Boston #364

8. What is Power Query? Discover, combine, and refine Big Data, small data, and any data!  An Excel add-in for Excel 2010 and Excel 2013  Identify and import external data  Discover relevant data by using search  Combine and transform multiple data sources  Power Query Language M SQLSaturday Boston #364

9. Who should use Power Query? Data Wranglers  Harmonizes and rationalizes data  Brings together and creates meaning out of data Data Stewards  Ensures data standards and cohesion  Develops and enforces policies Power Analysts  Develops dashboards and interactive reports  Uses data models Collaborative Users  Adds perspective based on their business knowledge Everyone should use it! SQLSaturday Boston #364

10. Power Query  Connectors (Data Sources)  Transformations (GUI)  Power Query Formula Language (M)  Saving and Sharing Queries SQLSaturday Boston #364

11. Data Sources Windows Azure Marketplace Azure SQL Database Azure HDInsight SQLSaturday Boston #364

12. Transformations SQLSaturday Boston #364

13. Power Query Formula Language (M)  Informally known as “M”  Functional Language similar to F#  A superset of the Excel formula language  Flexible, can be invoke dynamically  Familiar, easy to remember  Note to self: case sensitive SQLSaturday Boston #364

14. Saving and Sharing Queries Share Queries and Functions  Requires Office 365 and Power BI Accessible through “Online Search”  Query copied and executed locally  No server-side execution Data Steward  Monitor usage  Certify queries  Evangelize SQLSaturday Boston #364

15. Demo [Wrangling some data… and more!] SQLSaturday Boston #364

16. Enabling, Supporting Self-Service From Corporate to Self-Service BI, providing data;  Use Views  Use Natural (Business) Keys  Data Warehouse, Data Marts and OLTP… expose them!  Keep complex transforms centralized, self-service for simple ones  Metadata Repository  Classify Sources  Data Stewards SQLSaturday Boston #364

17. Power Query vs. SSIS SQL Server Integration Services To industrialize data integration, focusing on development and scalability Developer  Visual IDE – Source Control  Extensibility  Fine tuning  Automation Power Query To help end users create and share easily “self-service ETL” Business User Document centric Exploration Real-time, WYSYWYG Easy to learn Collaborative SQLSaturday Boston #364

18. Oh, But Wait… There’s More!

19. What is Power BI Designer? A stand-alone tool providing rich data transformation and visual analytics in a unified, seamless experience  Currently in Preview - Free download  Connect to all you data  Visual analytics and reports  Transform and clean data  Complete analytics life-cycle  Design once, view everywhere SQLSaturday Boston #364

20. Demo [Power BI Designer] SQLSaturday Boston #364

21. Summary Power Query provides users with the ability to extract data that previously seemed impossible without a large IT footprint. Once extracted, Power Query can easily manipulate data through many simple transformation commands that can be done with ease. Gives us the ability to get new data sources into a familiar environment where we can further analyze and create beautiful data visualization. SQLSaturday Boston #364

22. Resources  [Download] Microsoft Power Query for Excel http://bit.ly/1Ji3SFIhttp://bit.ly/1Ji3SFI  Microsoft Power Query for Excel Help http://bit.ly/1CwEwuAhttp://bit.ly/1CwEwuA  [Book] Power Query for Power BI and Excel http://bit.ly/1L06nbjhttp://bit.ly/1L06nbj  Microsoft Power BI http://bit.ly/1lhVKdkhttp://bit.ly/1lhVKdk  Power BI Preview http://bit.ly/1zWwAFShttp://bit.ly/1zWwAFS  Channel 9 (Power Query) http://bit.ly/1Ji5Y8Ghttp://bit.ly/1Ji5Y8G  Faster Insights to Data with Power BI Jump Start (MVA) http://bit.ly/1ktON16http://bit.ly/1ktON16  Chris Webb’s BI Blog http://bit.ly/1vwbfxzhttp://bit.ly/1vwbfxz  Reza Rad’s Technical Blog http://bit.ly/1EdVuR2http://bit.ly/1EdVuR2  Twitter: @MSPowerBI@MSPowerBI SQLSaturday Boston #364

23. What Questions Do You Have? SQLSaturday Boston #364

24. Thank You For attending this session SQLSaturday Boston #364