1. Erik Svensen, CatMan Solution A/S
From Excel to Power BI
Erik Svensen, CatMan Solution A/S

2. Me am I
CatMan Solution A/S – supplier of BIAAS Customers within the FMCG and Retail industry Work with Excel, Power BI, SSAS, SSRS, MDX, DAX and M Have been working Power BI since its beginning in the good old Microsoft Query and VBA days Speaker at SQL Saturdays in CPH, Oslo, New York, SQL Nexus PUG Leader – Denmark Power BI User Group Reach me at Blog: Mail:

3. This session will take you through the different elements of Power BI and demonstrate how Power BI can replace your Excel models/reports or use it as a complementary tool in your BI Tool belt.
You will be introduced to Excel Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service and after the session you will have a good overview of the different elements in Power BI –
all done via different examples highlighting the benefits of combining Excel and Power BI.

4. Questions for you Any VLOOKUP MASTERS here ?
Any MATCH/INDEX MASTERS here ?
Any VBA MASTERS here ?
Any PowerPivot Masters here ?
Any Power BI Desktop users here ?

5. Elements in Power BI Excel Power BI Desktop Power BI Service
Connect to data
Get & Transform data (Ribbon)
Get data
N/A
Design a Datamodel
Manage data model (Power Pivot)
Data
Visualize
Pivottables, Pivotcharts, Slicers Cube functions
Visualizations, Custom Visuals, visual filter, report filters, page filters
Publish
, Save to shared location
Save to shared location, publish to app.powerbi.com
My Workspace, Workspaces, Apps
Refresh
Manual or SharePoint refresh
Manual
Scheduled refreshed Gateway
Mobile
Power BI Mobile App

6. And remember
Excel 

7. Demo time

9. Which languages do you need to learn
Get data
M – Power Query Language
Perhaps a little SQL
Model data
DAX
And forget Vlookup and VBA 

10. What we didn’t cover Power BI Rest API Power BI Apps Embedding License
Gateways to on-premise data
Scale your models to Analysis Services (Azure or On-Prem)
Custom visuals
Integration with Power Apps
Streaming Datasets
Q & A
Power BI On Prem

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