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2. What is BI (Business Intelligence)?
Refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information.
Goal of BI is to allow easy interpretation of big data
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Many BI Tools
Most tools I will show today are self service BI tools
Self service means you should not have to involve your IT team to get the data out of the system.
Tools reviewing
SSRS reports – Report Builder
Smartview
Excel reports and dashboards
Power BI desktop
Power BI service – Cloud
Power BI mobile
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Demo – Report Builder
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Demo - Smart View
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Demo – Excel Reports
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Power BI Desktop
Self Service bi solution
Download application onto your desktop – data is not in the cloud.
Open a bpix file which contains the data, reports and dashboards
Uses DAX language(formula language)
User dax to define customer calculations for calculated columns and for measures (also known as calculated fields)
Dax includes some functions used in excel formulas, and additional functions designed to work with relational data and perform dynamics aggregation.
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Power BI desktop steps
1. Getting data – may different data sources, on premise data (SQL, csv, excel), cloud data (CRM, apps, webpages).
2. Formatting data in data model. Define columns returned, transform the columns, clean up data.
3. Creating Reports (charts). Formatting charts.
4. Creating dashboards. (pinning report objects to dashboards).
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9. Demo – Power BI - Desktop
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Power BI – Service
What is Power BI Service –
A business analytics service provided by Microsoft. Very similar to power bi – desktop however your data in stored in the cloud.
Free vs Pro
Free 1 GB\User limit Pro 1- GB/user limit
Free daily refresh. Pro Hourly Refresh.
Collaboration and row level security with Pro Version.
Power BI is Free and Pro pricing CDN per user per month.
Comparison chart
Get started with the Free version
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11. Demo – Power BI - Service
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Power BI – Mobile
Power BI service on phone, Tablet
Works with Iphone , android, windows phone.
Alerts
Work with Cards and Gauges in power bi
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Demo – Power BI - Mobile
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14. Microsoft commitment to the product
Monthly updates for desktop, service and mobile
Guided learning page
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Questions
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