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Our Powers Combined:Query, Pivot, Map, and
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A quick tour through the 4 pillars of Power BI
February 11, 2014
Agenda◦What is Power BI?◦Why is Power BI?◦The 4 pillars:
◦ Power Query◦ Power Pivot◦ Power Map◦ Power View
◦DEMO! -Election Data◦Office 365 integration capabilities
Who am I?
◦ Jeff Mlakar, Enterprise Architect BI consultant from Bennett Adelson.
◦ Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from the University of Michigan
◦ (pause for “boo”s)◦ Bennett Adelson is a strategic managed partner with
Microsoft.◦ bennettadelson.com◦ jeffmlakar.com◦ @JeffMlakar
What is Power BI?
◦Suite of data tools within Excel and Office 365 to enable self-service Business Intelligence
◦Powerful data searching, combining, analyzing, and presenting
Why is Power BI?◦Your users know the data◦Your users know Excel◦Eliminate “Excel Hell”
Power BI’s 4 pillarsPower Query: Search and Share a world of data sources to discover the data you need. Power Pivot: Combine data from numerous types of data sources and perform powerful data analysis. Power View: Enable intuitive, ad-hoc reporting in an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience that can easily bring your reports to SharePoint and mobile devices. Power Map: Analyze Geographical data with powerful 3D visualizations.
What we’re going to do on our tour◦Follow one requirements use case (Election data) through each of the Power BI pillars
◦Along the way, take detours to examine each pillar a little more in depth
•Find data external to your company•Reference it to data internal to your company•Create a 3D map of geographical data•Produce a report with all dimensions filterable•Have the report touch-enabled on mobile devices
Power Query
Power Pivot
Power Map
Power View
Power BI Mobile App
YOUR REQUIREMENTS
Power BI High-Level Overview
Mobile App
Web Browser
Excel Services
Q&A Service
Software as a Service
Power Pivot ServiceExcel 2013 Prof. Plus
Power Pivot PowerQuery
PowerView
Natural
Language
Query
Visualizations
Created with
Excel 2013
PowerMap
Getting Started◦Enable Power Pivot and Power View in Excel Addins◦Download Power Query and Power Map Addins at powerbi.com -> Support -> Getting Started
◦Sign up for Free Trial◦ 25 licenses◦ 3 months
Power Query◦Formerly “Data Explorer”◦Query many data sources◦Query the Web
◦ Wikipedia◦ Data.gov
◦ OData feeds◦Expose your data and allow users to share their own queries◦JSON parser to query over Big Data / HDInsight
Power Pivot◦Formerly “PowerPivot”◦Oldest of the Power BI Pillars (2012)
◦Data stored in local Analysis Services xVelocity (formerly Vertipaq) engine tabular model
◦Allows for sorting of large amounts of data◦Data calculations via Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Power Map◦Formerly “GeoFlow”◦Create 3D visualizations of geographic and temporal data
◦Build videos based on time dimensions◦(currently no SQL Server spatial data type support)
Power View◦Formerly “Crescent”◦ Included in Excel Professional Plus 2013
◦Build intuitive, interactive reports
◦Publish to Web◦ Interact with your reports through touch-enabled Windows App
Demo: Election Data
Power BI High-Level OverviewOn Premises
Mobile App
Web Browser
Excel Services
Q&A Service
Data Management Gateway
Software as a Service
SQL Server Data Source(s)
Power Pivot Service
Data Refresh Metadata Query
Data Discovery
Excel Pro Plus
Power PivotPowerQuery Power
View
Natural
Language
Query
PowerMap
Pricing
Additional Resources◦ powerbi.com ◦ Bing: “Power BI Demo Contest”◦ Microsoft and Pragmatic Works present:
Atlanta Self Service Power BI Workshop:February 18th - 19th, 2014 8:30AM to 5:00PM
Microsoft Office1125 Sanctuary Pkwy. Suite 300 Alpharetta, GA 30009
Questions?