1. Give more power to the users! - Decision Support Using Power BI
Yana Berkovich (MVP)
Give more power to the users! - Decision Support Using Power BI

2. SQLSaturday Sponsors! Titanium & Global Partner Gold Silver Bronze
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3. About Me https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
BI Analyst, Data Platform MVP
Consultant, Product Manager
Member of BI, BA, SharePoint, O365, PM communities
Data Platform Consultant at Long View Systems  
Experimenting with O365 
Worked as SharePoint everything, love sharing my insights. 
@Yana_Berkovich

4. Contents
Introduction – Decision Support Meet Oil Test Systems What is the problem? How PowerBI and SharePoint give more power to the users? Q&A

5. Decision Support
James Taylor, leader of Decision Management Solutions Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics (IBM Press)

6. DDS – Decision Support System
Insights
Information
Data
A decision support system (DSS) analyzes business data and presents it so that users can make business decisions It is an "informational application“ (TechTarget)

7. Meet Oil Test Systems Ltd.
Small business 50 employees
This company is measuring oil quality in vehicles parts and sending the results to customers
Oil Analysis, Coolant analysis, Heavy duty oil fuel Analysis
Recommendations which oil to use

8. What are they testing? The Real Clients Physical Tests
Visuals (color, foam, oil, fuel, magnetic precipitate, non- magnetic precipitate, & odor) pH
Glycol %
Freeze Point
Nitrite
SCA Number
Specific Conductance
Total Hardness
Corrosion Metals & Inhibitors by Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (AES)
Iron
Copper
Aluminum
Lead
Tin
Zinc
Silver
Calcium
Magnesium
Borate
Silicon
Molybdate
Phosphorus
Potassium
Sodium
The Real Clients

9. Behind the science of Oil Test Systems

10. Oil Test’s Customers needs
View their reports online instead of sending them via
Be able to communicate with the Lab technician online
Discuss other options and analyze different oil types
Have automated updates to their reports
Future needs
Have an online update in their organization sites and not Oil test systems site
Advanced decision making –
How does weather affects the oil?
How does the location affects the oil performance?
Test Component
Analyze data
Compare to standards
Make recommendations
Send to the client

11. Just quick PowerBI Reminder…
Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service

12. Connect to a data source SP list
How do I get started?
When preparing this session there was no code involved! Let’s give more power to the end users and clients
(the developers have enough power) 
Open PowerBI
Connect to a data source SP list
Import the data
Create Report
Create Dashboard
Publish PowerBI WP

13. Demo

14. Behind the scene of Oil Test Systems

15. The technical part (only 9 easy breezy steps)
Create the list in SharePoint group and configure the site
Fill the data
Open PowerBI
Choose get data
Configure the query
Save and update
Add data visualizations
Create report
Publish report to the online group

16. What's the big difference?
Communicating with the customers via the Customer group
Storing the lab results in the customers data set
Aggregating the results using PowerBI from different customers
(Connecting to each customer using same report template)
Publishing the reporting in the SharePoint site
Sharing insights immediately, setting a refresh
Mobile Experience and filling the data in the field

17. PowerBI Insights Oil sales records Oil standard Industry values
Oil Results Archived
Current oil test results
Future storage for the oil sales data
Min Max and Distribution for each result

18. So…where is SharePoint/O365 hiding?
Connecting to data a source SharePoint list
Publishing PowerBI Web part!
Group permissions sharing
Working with FLOW for workflows including PowerBI and SharePoint 365 – anomality alerts

19. Demo

20. Give more power to the users! - Thank you
Yana Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com

21. SQLSaturday Sponsors! Titanium & Global Partner Gold Silver Bronze
Without the generosity of these sponsors, this event would not be possible! Please, stop by the vendor booths and thank them.