1. Power Up Your Data Analysis with Power BI
Terry Ginley
Neal Donahue
David Chickering
@PBIUG

2. Meet Your Presenters 30+ years of experience 29 locations
150 full time business consultants
3,000+ successful ERP and CRM implementations
Strong Analytics practice built on Power BI
From inception, member of Microsoft Power BI Red Carpet Program
Only 20-time Inner Circle award recipient
Terry Ginley
Director of Analytics
Socius
Neal Donahue
BI Consultant
Socius
David Chickering
BI Consultant
Socius

3. Power Up Your Data Analysis with Power BI
Why Business Intelligence?
Overview of Power BI
Power BI Desktop and Powerbi.com
Power BI Training
What is new in Power BI
Mobile Solutions
Q&A

4. Today, BI Extends to Everyone
3rd wave End user BI
Analyst to end user
2nd wave Self-service BI
1st wave Technical BI

5. Turning Data into Business Insights is Challenging
Common BI challenges include…
End-to-end view
Data often resides in disparate locations, making it difficult to see a complete picture of your business 
Multiple data sources
Data residing in SaaS solutions and other external locations is difficult to access and refresh securely
Right data for the right users at the right time
Different roles have different needs and business users need the latest operational data

6. Why Business Intelligence?
BI is much more than reporting
BI is not about the best or latest technology. Its about Ease of Use and Adoption
Changing the mindset in an organization to become a “Learning Organization”
Move from what happened (static reporting) to can I effect for the better “what will happen”?
Rich and rapid self-service
Right time / Right place

7. Key Benefits and Differentiators
Pre-built dashboards and reports for popular SaaS solutions
Real-time dashboard updates
Secure, live connection to your data sources, on-premises and in the cloud
Intuitive data exploration using natural language query
Integrated with familiar Microsoft products and utilizes commitment for scale & availability in Azure
Fast deployment, hybrid configuration, secure, and integrated with existing IT systems.

8. Get Started Quickly Free sign up in seconds
Get started with pre-built content packs for popular SaaS solutions
Content packs include
pre-configured dashboards
reports
data models
embedded queries
Create interactive and real-time dashboards with visualizations
Drill down into underlying reports to uncover more insights
Automatic data refresh is built-in
Please refer to this site for up to date list of SaaS partners

9. Stay Connected From Any Device
Access dashboards using native mobile apps for Windows, iOS and Android
Set favorites for important visualizations
Zoom in and out of a visualization
Annotate visualization and share snapshot with others
Configure alerts to get notifications on critical business KPIs

10. Ask Questions of Your Data
Type questions in plain language – Power BI Q&A will provide the answers
Q&A intelligently filters, sorts, aggregates, groups and displays data based on the key words in the question
Pin the answers to your dashboard
Set up data models with natural key phrasing to enable the best results

11. Scheduled Refresh with Power BI Gateway
Personal Gateway empowers the business analyst to securely and easily refresh on premise data
No help from IT required to setup Personal Gateway (on local machine) or schedule refreshes

12. Consolidated Data from a Range of Sources
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collaborate
Report
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Prepare
Consolidated Data from a Range of Sources
Use query to connect data from a variety of source beyond those available in Powerbi.com
Navigate data quickly with in-memory processing that optimizes performance
File
Database
Azure
SaaS
Other
Excel
CSV
XML
Text
JSON
Folder
SQL Server Database
Access Database
SQL Server Analysis Services Database
Oracle Database
IBM DB2 Database
MySQL Database
PostgreSQL Database
Sybase Database
Teradata Database
Microsoft Azure SQL Database
Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure HDInsight
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Microsoft Azure Table Storage
appFigures
QuickBooks Online
Zendesk
GitHub
Twilio
SweetIQ
Web
SharePoint List
OData Feed
Hadoop File (HDFS)
Active Directory
Microsoft Exchange
Dynamics CRM Online
Facebook
Google Analytics
SAP Business Objects BI Universe
Salesforce Objects
Salesforce Reports
ODBC Query
ODBC Tables

13. Pricing

14. Deliver Valuable Insights with Customizable Reports
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Deliver Valuable Insights with Customizable Reports
Visualize data and easily author reports
Depict data in compelling reports that tell stories using a range of interactive visualizations
Use data from different sources in a single, consolidated report
Change colors, format and customize
Title, Background Color, Legend, Data Labels
New visual color formatting with fixed and data driven settings

15. Demo Neal Donahue

16. What is new in PBI David Chickering

17. Socius Solution Showcase

18. Socius Solution Showcase

19. Socius Solution Showcase

20. Socius Solution Showcase

21. 1. Date Slicer

22. 2. Snap-to-Grid

23. 3. Grouping

24. 4. Binning

25. 5. Top N

26. 6. Exclude

27. 7. Drill Behavior

28. 8. Forecasting

29. 9. Mobile Report Layout

30. 10. Power BI in SSRS

31. Q & A

32. Thank You Terry Ginley tginley@socius1.com
Neal Donahue
David Chickering
@PBIUG