1. Power BI Solutions for California Colleges
Joe McGinn
Microsoft Enterprise Platform Architect
Nuventive

2. How to have a tax free MILLION DOLLARS!!
The BI Demo Lie
How to have a tax free MILLION DOLLARS!!
All of these beautiful, robust, interactive, web-based dashboards and reports can be yours today!!
We’ve removed ALL the complexity !!
Just plug in, turn on, connect to all your data…
…and brace for stardom as you begin to uncover incredible new insights that transform your institution…and probably the WORLD!
FIRST!
…Get a million dollars
THEN…….

3. The BI Reality BI HAS come a long way in a short time.
…so much so Gartner has completely redefined it.
The cloud DOES change everything.
Creating robust, interactive dashboards over your data and uncovering new strategic insights IS easier than it’s ever been.
…BUT getting the data together is STILL COMPLEX…and TIME CONSUMING.

4. BI Tools are Better Than Ever
Power BI and Tableau
Both are robust and easy to use.
Both are great if you have a mature EDW to plug in.
Tableau has best visuals, but…
…not a great ‘mashup’ tool and can get expensive.
Power BI visuals catching up quickly and also an EPIC mashup tool.
… but Power BI Templates + Azure Automation + ADLA + ADLS + ADF changes everything!

5. Power BI Mashups
Enrollment and first term enrollment (SB15=1) by term and ethnicity
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Demo

6. What is IE/IR’s Highest and Best Use?!?
Mashup: Days to Analysis
Template: Minutes to Analysis

7. Jump Straight to Creating Insightful, Interactive Visuals in Power BI Publish & Share in Multiple Places
Power BI Service
Embedded in web sites (IE, CCCCO, etc.)
Apps like Nuventive’s Action Point
Other

8. Simple, Self-Help Data Refresh Process
Simply drag/drop raw MIS files into (free) Azure Explorer app on the desktop…that’s it!
All MIS DED field values already stored in Azure SQL Database
Semantic model contains relationships, measures and KPI calculations.
Updated MIS files are automatically run through the semantic model and reflected in all published datasets, dashboards & reports.

9. End to End: College Level Solution
MIS files uploaded to secure Azure Storage Account
Cloud ETL via Azure Data Lake Analytics
Grabs raw MIS files
Processes in ADLA utilizing U-Sql
Drops processed files back to Azure Storage Account
Semantic model hosted directly in Power BI
Contains relationships and measure definitions
Pulls processed MIS files from Azure Storage
Pulls dimension data directly from Azure SQL
Dataset and all reports auto- refresh
Role based and row-level security 9

10. Power BI Templates
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Demo

11. Solution Benefits
Simple, quick and highly customizable reporting of disaggregated MIS data elements in Power BI.
Automate redundant, manually intensive and error prone data staging efforts.
Free up valuable analyst cycles to focus on new, strategic institutional insights to improve student outcomes.

12. Solution Benefits
Complex measures handled in the semantic model (MDX/DAX)
Easily extendable to non-MIS data sources.
Fully deployed in 1-2 days…we’re told it saves the colleges using it more time than that every month.