no.1 introduction to power bi

POWER BI MELBOURNENO. 1 - INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI

ABOUT ME

LUKE HAYLER

Senior Consultant @ Servian - focus on BI/IM/Strategy Meetups -

Power BI Melbourne - January 2016 SQL Social Melbourne - May 2011

Contact & File Share Info Power BI Community - lukehayler Twitter: @lukehayler LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukehayler Email: luke.hayler@servian.com.au File share location: http://bit.ly/powerbimelbourne

SERVIANTHANK YOU

OVERVIEW

POWER BI COMPONENTS & CAPABILITIES

Power BI Desktop

Modelling & Reporting

Local Machine (download)

Power BI Service

Reports & Sharing

(SaaS) Azure hosted (app.powerbi.com)

Power BI Mobile

Consume Dashboard Content

Collaboration

Power BI Visuals Gallery

Open Source

Visuals created by Microsoft & Community

Power BI Support

Knowledge Base

Forums

Power BI Community

User Groups

Ideas

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POWER BI DESKTOP Data Acquisition

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POWER BI DESKTOPData Transformation

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POWER BI DESKTOPData Modelling

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POWER BI DESKTOPData Visualisation

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POWER BI SERVICE

Connect to datasets

Build Reports & Dashboards

Visuals, Fields & Formatting

Groups

Your Workspace & Collaborative space

Sharing

Dashboards, Organisational Content Packs

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POWER BI VISUALS GALLERY

Visuals created by the community

Open source code

Open dev tools from Power BI Service

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POWER BI MOBILE

VisualiseViewyourpersonalizeddashboardsandreportsanywhere.Interactwithyourdataeasilyinatouch-optimizedexperiencewiththePowerBInativeWindows,iOS,andAndroidapps.

AlwaysbeintheknowStayup-to-datewithdata-drivenalerts.Discoverimportantinsightsintimeandactonthem instantly.

SharediscoverieswithyourteamSharelivereportsanddashboardstokeepyour teamonthesamepage.Tellstorieswithyourdatatoengageyourcustomersandcolleagues.

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POWER BI SUPPORT & COMMUNITY

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POWER BI END-TO-END FEATURES

LATEST NEWS

PRESS COVERAGE

Power BI (v2) released to GA July 2015

Features updates coming at a rapid rate

> 200 updates since GA

Keep track @

Power BI recognised in Forrester Wave: Agile BI Platform, Q3 2015 (Current offering, Strategy, Market Presence)

LATEST NEWS

DECEMBER UPDATES

ReportAuthoring

• FormattingPane&Ribbon1. Formatdatalabelspercategoryseries2. Changenumberofdecimalplacesshowedinvisuals3. Changetextsizeinvisuals4. Abilitytolayoutvisualsaccurately:alignment,distribute,

size,position(requiresPowerBIDesktopforauthoring)5. SetstylesacrossmultiplevisualsthroughFormatPainter

(requiresPowerBIDesktopforauthoring)• EnhancementstoVisualizations

1. VisualscueforsortstateinTablevisual2. NewVisual:StackedAreachart3. SmarttooltipsforAreaandLinechartsonhover4. AbilitytocreateReferenceline/regionforaCartesian

visual5. Improveddatalabelsforpieandscatterchart

• RVisualsIntegration(PreviewFeature)

• Suggestedtabletotablerelationshipswhentryingtocreatevisualsinvolvingtwotableswhicharenotrelated.

DataModeling

• RelationshipsView1. ZoomingSlider2. FitZoomtoScreen3. ResetLayout4. AbilitytoZoominusingCtrl-Mouseselectionrectangle

DataConnectivity

1. SSASMultidimensionalsupport- Hierarchiessupport(PreviewFeature)

2. StripeConnector3. SmartsheetConnector4. “EnterData”:Pasteorenterdatatocreateatable5. DirectQueryImprovements: Support foralldatatypesofT-SQLand

SAPHANA,resultinginPerformanceimprovements.6. ODBCConnector:Support forselectingUser/SystemDSNs7. CSVConnector:AbilitytospecifyColumnDelimiterintheSource

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NEXT TIME

POWER BI MELBOURNE - MOVING FORWARD

Our Group Meetings Announcements & overview of new features Presentation topics Demos:

Chance for members to show off their Power BI Visualisation skills Tips & Tricks / Show & Tell:

Chance for members to present interesting bits of information Case Studies:

Chance for members to present on how they are using Power BI & the impact it is having on their business

WE NEED YOU

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

Participate in the public forums Sign up at community.powerbi.com

Submit and vote on ideas for future releases

Power BI Melbourne User Group Quick Demo or Case study at a Meeting

Blog / Tweet / LinkedIn updates

SWAG! Depending on Microsoft’s support, we may have SWAG to give away at meetings

The more visible this group is the more support we will get.

WRAP UP

REFERENCES & OTHER INFOSign up for Power BI

Sign up - www.powerbi.com Download Power BI Desktop - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop

Learn more about Power BI

YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi edX Course - https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-power-bi-microsoft-dat207x

Keep up-to-date

Power BI Blog - www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/bi-blog.aspx Track all the Power BI Updates - https://datasavvy.wordpress.com/power-bi-updates/

Diagram of End-to-End features (Melissa Coates) - http://www.sqlchick.com/entries/2015/9/29/overview-power-bi-v2-features-end-to-end

Other Info

Shared Folder for Power BI Melbourne - http://bit.ly/powerbimelbourne

Twitter - @lukehayler or #PowerBI for the community email - luke.hayler@servian.com.au

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