Power BI Q&A: Take your data analysis

to the next level

Felipe Ferreira

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Who am I?

Felipe Ferreira

SQL Server Consultant at Pythian, SQL Server MVP, Friends of

RedGate, speaker, nerd, skydiver, a little crazy.. that's me :)

Twitter: @SQLBoy

Email: ferreira@pythian.com

12/2/2014 | SQLSaturday Winnipeg #3503 |

Agenda

What’s our problem today

What is Power BI

What is Power BI Q&A

Demos

Current Scenario

Knowledge is Power – Francis Bacon, 16th

century

User has no idea of what they want

IT don’t have people/time to deliver what they

need

Current Scenario

When we want to find something:

Current Scenario

When we develop

an app for the

customer to find

something:

And what is this Power BI thing?

A cool marketing name to talk about a set of

different products:

POWER QUERY

“Self-service ETL”

Allow simple and

easy data

manipulation and

transformation

POWER PIVOT

“Self-service Data analysis”

Allow in-memory

Data modeling and

analysis

POWER MAP

“Self-service awesome interactive

visualization”

Maps

Custom maps

POWER VIEW

“Self-service awesome interactive visualization

again”

POWER BI SITE

“Self-service

collaboration site”

POWER BI Mobile Apps

Windows 8 App

Windows RT App

Apple iOS Apps (soon)

Other platforms can use the preview HTML5

version of the power bi power view

And FINALLY…. Power Q&A!

Natural language query system

Reads and interpret your data

Allow a google/bing style report generation style

Enough of text… I WANT TO SEE IT!

DEMOS

Thank You

For attending this session

12/2/2014 | SQLSaturday Winnipeg #35017 |