1. H*ckin Sweet Reports with Power BI
Power BI at Innovative Architects
Julie Smith

2. Julie Smith @JulieChix Datachix.com
Current Events.

3. Keeping Up With Power BI
Nobody can be an expert. That’s never been more true than it is today with this technology. So just go for it.

4. PBI is a Bundle of Services, Apps and Tools:
Power!
PBI is a Bundle of Services, Apps and Tools:
Power BI Service (powerbi.com, SaaS)
Power BI Desktop – free Windows app for self-service data analytics – All the Powers That Excel, for free with a bumble bee coating
Power BI Mobile – apps for iOS, Android, and Windows
Power BI Custom Visualizations – Open source, based on D3
Power BI Embedded – an Azure service for integrating Power BI reports in custom apps (uses Azure and iframes)
Now uses APIs and Service
Power BI Report Server—On Premises version.
Power BI Premium –Capacity Pricing for large volume
Premise for this slide from original deck here: From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

5. Important Parts—The Service
Share DshBd
Q&A
DshBd
Tiles
Reports
Datasets
Tiles--visualizations
Datasets – can be reused across multiple dashboards and reports
Reports – where you build your visualizations –can do it here, but limited. Don’t do it here.
Dashboards – like a mobile app. Stream all reports vertically. How you share outside org.
Get Data – go connect to native sources or your own
Workspace chevron—
Get Data

6. Administrative Elements of Service
Gateways (Which are necessary for refreshing data)
Setting up data refreshes
Implementing Role Level Security (Mapping roles to users and groups)
App Workspaces (formerly called Group Workspaces)
Content packs** Applications
Tiles--visualizations
Datasets – can be reused across multiple dashboards and reports
Reports – where you build your visualizations –can do it here, but limited. Don’t do it here.
Dashboards – like a mobile app. Stream all reports vertically. How you share outside org.
Get Data – go connect to native sources or your own
Workspace chevron—
Get Data

7. Power BI Desktop Free tool Author reports Model & shape data
DAX support
Publish to Power BI Service
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

8. Power BI Desktop --Aliases
Power Pivot
Power View
Power Query
Power Query
Power Pivot Dax
And BTW, you’re not crazy about this:

9. Power BI Desktop –Power Query

10. Power BI Desktop –Power Pivot
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

11. Power BI Desktop –Power View

12. Custom Visuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuD72qgYeQg
Git:Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals
Samples, How to’s, all you need.
TypeScript and D3

13. Mobile
User gets app.
Logs in.

14. Embedded We create web user. We create web app
We create Power BI report
We embed the Power BI report in the app.
Uses PBI Premium EM Skus

15. Is Power BI Cloud only?

16. Power BI Report Server
In January 2017, SSRS 2016 Preview arrived with Power BI Integrated.

17. Power BI Report Server On Premises version
Power BI reports, Paginated reports, Excel Workbooks, and other resources accessed via the Web Portal
Power BI report server is an on premises companion to Premium and is built on top of SSRS. Therefore it also serves as an SSRS server.
Currently, the only two paths to this license is Premium and SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance.

18. Power BI Report Server Desktop

19. Power!
Pricing

20. Power!
Pricing
A Power BI Pro license is required to distribute content to other users, and for peer-to-peer sharing and collaboration.
A Power BI Pro license is required to publish content to Power BI Premium.
A Power BI Pro license is required to receive content from other users, unless the user is associated with dedicated capacity in Power BI Premium.

21. Premium Pricing
From the-power-bi-capacity-based-skus/

22. VertiPaq—It’s all the same thing!
Soheil Bakshi
PowerBI
Power Pivot
SSAS Tabular = =

24. Word on Visualizations

25. Don’t Forget the Goal

26. Easy to Understand Data
Four chart Types which are very good choices:
Bar or column (not stacked. That goes to area)
Line charts
Scatter charts
Tables
Avoid Pie Charts and Pie Chart Variations (although many people love them and if your client does, I’m ok using them)

27. Bar and Column Charts
Number Doggos Rated

28. Line Charts

29. Scatter Chart
Useful for illustrating the patterns in the data, for example by showing linear or non-linear trends, clusters, and outliers.
Show patterns in large sets of data Useful for illustrating the patterns in the data, for example by showing linear or non-linear trends, clusters, and outliers.

30. Tables

31. Area Perceptions--No

32. Sharing and Security

33. Sharing and Security
Power BI users inside or outside of your organization:
You can share a dashboard, and now Reports too
Row level security
App Workspaces
Parameters in Power BI helpful

34. Today’s Demo Data-- @dog_rates

35. Today’s Demo Data

36. Today’s Demo Data

37. “exotic doggos”

38. …guys this is frustrating

39. Our
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