1. Victoria Power BI User Group Meeting
October 2017

2. What’s New and Exciting with Power BI
Agenda
Introductions
What’s New and Exciting with Power BI
Desktop (Oct 2017)
Service and Mobile (Sept 2017)
Streaming Power BI Datasets
BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard Demo
Question and Answer 

3. Introductions
The Power BI User group started meeting in October We now have over 50 members.

4. Power BI Desktop (Oct 2017) Feature Set Review – Dave Jaycock
Reporting
Analytics
Bookmarking (preview)
Selection pane and visual display controls
Bookmark links for shapes and images (preview)
Spotlight
Scatter & bubble markers
Increase the number of data points shown in scatter charts
Quick measures for SSAS live connections
Sales from new customers quick measure
Cell-level formatting for multidimensional AS models
Data connectivity
Vertica connector (beta)
SAP BW connector: support for additional member properties
Other
Power BI Desktop in the Windows Store
Improved access to help content

5. Power BI Service and Mobile (Sept 2017) Feature Set Review – Dave Jaycock
Service and Mobile Updates
Share dashboards to free users with Premium
Allocate capacities to suit your business needs with v-core pooling
Instantly scale-up or scale-down capacities with one click
PubNub block to easily push data into REST APIs
September update for On-premises data gateway
Filter reports on the go on Power BI Mobile
Cross platform Visio support
Improved load performance for usage metrics

6. Streaming Datasets and Power BI
Streaming vs Batch
Not necessarily IOT or Big Data

7. Streaming Datasets and Power BI
.Net Emulator
Azure
IOT Hub
REST API
Power Bi Dataset
Azure
Stream Analytics Job
Power Bi Dataset

8. BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard
Current BC Courts Dashboards need to be replaced by Dec 31, 2017.
One of the options is switching to a Power BI Dashboard. However, there are pros and cons.

9. BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard
Pros
Cons
Interactive visualizations
Bubble map captures all court locations using latitude and longitude
Customize the colours of data points in map enable us to show 5 regions.
Import and update source tables directly from Oracle Server
User friendly product
Tabs are replaced by page numbers after publishing to web.
Not able to customize tooltips on map.
Other
Power BI has tight integration with other Microsoft business tools

10. BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard

11. BC Court Services – Power BI Dashboard

12. NEW MICROSOFT SITE FOR REGISTRATION
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