1. Pittsburgh Power BI Group

2. Welcome & Thank you
For Attending

3. What is Power BI?
Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights. Monitor your business and get answers quickly with rich dashboards available on every device.

4. About us Stephanie Bruno
‎‎Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation - Data Architecture Manager
Kiley Pollio
Microsoft - Senior Consultant – Data Insights
Eugene Meidinger
All Lines Technology - BI Consultant

5. Power BI User Group We meet every third Thursday Join the the Meetup
Sign up for the global user group site
Do you want to be a speaker?
Please suggest topics…

6. Power BI Desktop New Features
Report view
Rename axis titles
New matrix visual enhancements: column sorting, column resizing, and word wrapping (preview)
Analytics
Quick measures and show value as (preview)
Q&A in Spanish (preview)
Data connectivity
Connect to datasets in the Power BI service (preview)
Redshift Connector: beta support & publish to Power BI service
SAP HANA & BW Connectors: enhancements to parameter input experience
Query editing
Add column by example
Split column (by delimiter/number of characters) into rows
Group by – basic mode
Go to column

7. Microsoft Data Insights Summit
What to expect from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit
The Microsoft Data Insights Summit is a user conference for business analysts designed to help you identify deeper insights, make better sense of your data, and take action to transform your business. 
Lots of learning opportunities to deepen your expertise – from incredible keynotes and breakout sessions to hands-on workshops featuring a wide range of Microsoft’s business intelligence tools
1:1 access to the Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server BI, Excel, PowerApps, and Flow engineers, so you can share strategies, ask your toughest questions, and learn best practices. Last year’s attendees told us this was a highlight of the conference!
A look into the latest trends, tools, and product roadmaps
A partner expo to support networking opportunities with experts and key members in the community
A variety of pre-day workshops on Sunday, June 11 – deep dive into the topics you care about most, and get hands-on!
PUG Registration Link!

8. Pittsburgh SQL Saturday
Saturday September 30th 2017 at Pittsburgh Technology College

9. MSFTGUEST Wireless Connection Instructions:
• Make sure your wireless adapter is set to dynamically obtain an IP address
• Connect to the wireless network MSFTGUEST
• Open a browser and navigate to a web site to be redirected to the Captive Portal
• Click on Event Attendee Code and enter the access code: msevent74st

10. Next Month Introduction to Power Query May 18th, 2017 60 minutes
Are you sick of cleaning up data by hand? PowerQuery, also known as the M language, allow for making repeatable changes to your data. Practically anything you could do by hand, you can do quicker and easier with PowerQuery. We will cover gathering data, merging tables, pivoting columns, adding custom logic and more!
Speaker: Eugene Meidinger All Lines Technology - BI Consultant
Sponsor: All Lines Technology

11. Mark Barkell
Let's not REST on our Laurels, We have the Power BI Embedded
The reporting platform Microsoft Power BI is like a two sided coin.  Most report savvy people start out with publishing reports on the open web restricting access with groups managed by Microsoft.  Yet, for some reporting uses embedding Power BI reports into web applications that have their own user and role management systems may be desired.   For such uses, there is the other side of the coin: Microsoft Power BI Embedded.