1. What is Power BI? Check screen resolution
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Jason Thomas’ Entry
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2. Angela Henry
Angela is a DBA/BI Developer, living in High Point, NC and loves what she does. She's worked with all versions of SQL Server & worn all the hats that come with dealing with SQL Server throughout the years: developer, administrator, data architect and BI developer.
She earned her MSCE: Business Intelligence in 2015.
She is also the local group leader for the PASS Triad SQL User Group in Greensboro, NC.
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Blogs at SQLSwimmer.wordpress.com
In her spare time you can probably find her in the pool, she's an avid US Masters swimmer.

3. Overview The What/Who/Why/Flavors What is Power BI Why use Power BI
Who can use Power BI
Flavors of Power BI
How of Power BI
Dashboards
Reports
Datasets
Gateway
Integration with Reporting Services (SSRS)

4. What is Power BI?
Power BI is an amazing business analytics service that enables anyone to visualize and analyze data.
Microsoft Power BI is a collection of online services and features that enables you to find and visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways.
Flavors of Power BI
Power BI Free
Power BI Pro
What does this mean?
Brings all of your data together.
See it all in one place and access it from all of your devices
Browsers Supported as of Edge, IE 11, Chrome, Firefox & Safari (non-MS must be latest version)
Mobile Devices supported: Windows, IOS & Android
Old News: There are two experiences now available for Power BI: the new experience, generally referred to as Power BI, and the previous experience which is referred to as Power BI for Office 365. Power BI for Office 365 will be deprecated on March 31, 2016.

5. Who Can User Power BI? Based on email address Allowed School Work
Not allowed
Personal
Government/military
Telecom/ISP
No .gov or .mil addresses
No ISP addresses (Hotmail.com, gmail.com, triad.rr.com, etc)
.org address are supported

6. Why Power BI? Visualize, Visualize, Visualize!!
To ensure all colleagues are on the same page, viewing and using the same information
You don’t have a full time report writer at your company
You want something quick and EZ
Example: Anscombe’s Quartet -

7. Flavors of Power BI Free Pro Data refresh frequency: Daily
Data capacity Limit: 1GB/user
Streaming rate: 10K rows/hour
Data sources are limited to content packs for services and importing files
Data refresh frequency: Hourly
Data Capacity Limit: 10GB/user
Streaming rate: 1M rows/hour
Data Sources include free ones plus direct query dataset and on-premises data
Collaboration with content packs, Office 365 Groups
Manage access & sharing via AD
Free
Data Sources: Content packs for services (e.g. Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, and Google Analytics).
Imported from files such as Excel spreadsheets, Power BI Desktop, and CSV.
Pro
Direct Query datasets: such as SSAS tabular data, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or Apache Spark for HDInsight
Live connection with interactivity to Azure Analysis Services, Row Level Security, Groups, Organizational Content packs
On-premises data: Power BI Personal Gateway or Power BI Data Management Gateway and as of 1/28/2016 SSAS Multidimensional
Collaboration: A dashboard or report that's installed from an organizational content pack
A dashboard, report, or dataset that's contained in a group workspace
Price as of 3/4/2017: $9.99/month/user

8. Building Blocks of Power BI
Dashboards
Reports
Datasets
Dashboard: Think of it as a single canvas (made up of tiles) that you can share with others
Reports: Power BI report is one or more pages of visualizations (charts and graphs)
Datasets: Building blocks of reports

9. Dashboards
Tiles
This slide has animation to show the highlighted tiles

10. Dashboard Parts Navigation bar Dashboard with tiles Q&A question box
Help/Feedback buttons
Dashboard Title
Office 365 Launcher
Power BI Home
Additional Dashboard Actions
Graphic courtesy of MS Power BI documentation site
*Graphic courtesy of MS Power BI site

11. Demo Show dashboard and how to navigate
Data for all Demos is provided by obviEnce and they hold the copy write for the data provided.
Use Customer Profitability Sample to show the different kinds of reports you can pin to a dashboard
1. Company Gross Margin %
2. 83 Customers
3. Sell 7 products
4. Most of the revenue comes from North & East Regions

12. Reports Create from scratch within Power BI
Create from scratch in Power BI Desktop
Import from shared dashboards
Created for you when you connect to datasets from Excel, Power BI Desktop, databases, and SaaS applications and content packs
Can be associated with more than one dashboard
Power BI Desktop: Free desktop application that provides
Advanced data exploration
Shaping
Modeling
Report creation with highly interactive visualizations
Created when connect to.. For example, when you connect to an Excel workbook that contains Power View sheets, Power BI creates a report based on those sheets. And when you connect to an SaaS application, Power BI imports a pre-built report.

13. Demo Demo reports Creating Report Different visualizations
Pin to dashboard
Drill into Gross Margin %
 show how lighting name in chart changes visuals
 Show how picking name from filter list changes visuals

14. Datasets Connect Import Files Services Local WebTrends OneDrive
SharePoint – Team Sites
Connect
Services
WebTrends
SalesForce
Google Analytics
Databases
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Server Analysis Services (Tabular)
Content Pack
Datasets are things you either connect to or import
Import:
Excel
CSV
Content Packs  Created by users w/in your organization
Datasets can be used over and over again

15. Demos Demo Creating Datasets Importing Data Excel .csv
Connecting to service
Google Analytics
Bing
Import Swimming Spreadsheet  look at quick insights
* Create line chart for finish times
 Axis | EventDate
 Legend | EventName
 Values | TimeInSeconds
* Create line chart for split times
 Axis | EventDate
 Legend | Lap
 Values | SplitTime  this produces error because no relationships in Excel
Show Power BI Desktop for second example
 import screen very similar to Excel Power Query
 works without having relationships
It’s all jumbled up, so add a slicer to show how to filter
Publish to Power BI

16. Special Tiles Image Text box Video Web content Real-Time Data (Pro)
Formerly known as Widgets
The are only available on the Dashboard when click the +Add Tile or if using Power BI Desktop, you cannot add an image in the online service when creating a report.
Image: URL to image
Text box: basic text functionality
Video: Youtube only
Web content: embed code
Real-Time Data (Pro)

17. Demo Widgets Image  in Demo Text file Text box
Video  in Demo Text file

18. Q & A Question Box
Allows you to ask questions about your data in natural language
Comes with common synonyms and phrasings
Aggregations (less than, maximum, number of, …)
Date keywords and ranges (last month, this year, before, after,…)
Plurals (opportunity & opportunities)
Display verbs (show, is, what is, are, what are)
Create your own synonyms and phrasings
Aggregations: such as less than, maximum, number of, count of, average, between, before
Date keywords: such as last month, this year
Date ranges: before, after
Display verbs: show, is, what is, are, what are
Equality keywords: between, more than, less than, equal
Names: If a column in the dataset contains the phrase "name" (e.g., EmployeeName), Q&A understands the values in that column are names and you can ask questions like "which employees are named robert."
Plurals: for example, both "opportunity" and "opportunities".
Possessives: "what is the total of Jaine's orders"
Relationship: datasets have tables and within tables are columns. Most columns will be related to their containing table with a simple phrasing like "hosts have flags" as well as "flags have hosts." These relationships can be described using words such as: have and of.
Sort order: descending, ascending, alphabetical order, sort
Tenses: for example, both buy" and "bought"
Type of visualization: specify the visualization to use, "show sales by year as a clustered bar chart."

19. Demo
Q & A question box

20. Gateway for On-Premises Data
The gateway is supported only on 64-bit Windows operating systems.
Download the on-premises data gateway installer from the download menu.
If you install the gateway in personal mode, you will not be able to install another gateway on the same machine.
Configuring gateway:
On-Premises data gateway (pro)
Personal Gateway

21. A query will be created by the cloud service, along with the encrypted credentials for the on-premises data source, and sent to the queue for the gateway to process.
The gateway cloud service will analyze the query and will push the request to the Azure Service Bus.
The on-premises data gateway polls the Azure Service Bus for pending requests.
The gateway gets the query, decrypts the credentials and connects to the data source(s) with those credentials.
The gateway sends the query to the data source for execution.
6. The results are sent from the data source, back to the gateway, and then onto the cloud service. The service then uses the results.

22. Integration with Reporting Services (SSRS)
Pin SSRS visuals to Power BI Dashboards
Does NOT require Pro version!
Good reference blog:

23. Resources https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
started/
onprem/

24. More Information Power BI Blog Melissa Coates Blog Reza Rad Blog
Chris Webb Blog
Adam Saxton Video Blog