1. Mile Hi Power BI User Group
May 11, 2017

2. News
Announcements
Featured Speaker(s)
Closing
Agenda

3. Tonight’s Sponsor

4. Tonight’s Topic
Big Changes for Power BI!
by Steve Wake

5. Calendar 05/17: Boulder SQL Server User Group
05/17: Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group
05/18: Denver SQL Server User Group
06/06: Denver Area Access User Group
06/08: Mile Hi Power BI User Group
06/12-06/13: Microsoft Data Insights Summit – Seattle
06/15: TDWI Denver
09/16: Denver SQLSaturday – DU Campus
10/31-11/3: PASS Summit Seattle
Calendar

6. Resources http://powerbi.com https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
certficate-data-science
Resources

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8. News/Updates
More Power in Your BI
Introducing a DAX Editor Tool Window for SSDT Tabular
Using Flow and Power BI to track social listening through Twitter
Power BI Mobile apps feature summary – April 2017
Power BI Desktop – Terms and Definitions
SQL Updates Newsletter – April 2017
Use Analyze in Excel + Excel Camera to create PowerPoint magic
Power BI Desktop May Feature Summary
Automating Excel to Power BI Publishing
Microsoft accelerates modern BI adoption with Power BI Premium
April and May Webinars
Distribute to large audiences with Power BI apps
Using and optimizing DirectQuery in #powerbi and #ssas #tabular
Introducing Power BI Report Server for on-premises Power BI report publishing
SQL Server 2017 Community Technology Preview 2.0 now available
What Does Power BI Premium Mean for You?
New Get Data Capabilities in the GA Release of SSDT Tabular 17.0 (April 2017)
Power BI April Service Content Packs

9. News/Updates
Ultimate Sharing Strategy: Power BI Apps
Using Variables within DAX
Power BI Premium – A New Offering
The Other Changes that came with Power BI Premium
Data Connector SDK Developer Preview
What makes up a Power BI Desktop PBIX File

10. Power BI Portfolio

11. Updated Microsoft Reporting Comparison

12. Updates on 6/1 to include features previously only available with Power BI Pro:
Connect to all data sources
Storage increase from 1GB to 10GB
Data refresh from once daily to 8 times daily (hourly schedule)
Streaming data rate increase from 10K rows/hour to 1M rows/hour
Features that are no longer available:
Sharing any reports/dashboards
Exporting any reports/dashboards
Extended Power BI Pro Trial for a full year (until May 31, 2018) available on 6/1
Power BI Personal Free

13. Power BI Pro $9.99/User/Month
Required now to share/collaborate reports & dashboards
Required to access shared reports/dashboards (unless Power BI Premium is being used)
Required for all export functions (PowerPoint & Excel/CSV) and Analyze in Excel feature
Required to create/access Power BI Apps (updated version of Content Packs)
Power BI Pro $9.99/User/Month

14. Power BI Premium min $5K/Month
Dedicated Capacity (Azure Premium Tier levels P1 – P3)
100TB of storage (100x more than Power BI Personal/Pro)
Data Refresh up to 48 per day (minute scheduling)
Reports & Dashboards deployed to Premium servers are available to both Power BI Personal and Power BI Pro users
Required for Power BI Report Server (on-prem)
Power BI Embedded changing to use single API and requiring Power BI Premium
Cores purchased are available both online and on-prem
Long list of planned features
Power BI Premium min $5K/Month

15. Power BI Report Server On-Prem Solution Updated version of SSRS
Requires Power BI Premium or SQL Server Enterprise with up- to-date SA (Software Assurance)
Allows for on-prem solution with SQL Server Enterprise, minus the following features:
Dashboards
Power BI Apps
Q&A
Power BI Embedded (planned future option)
Power BI Report Server