perth sharepoint user group - hybrid cloud and power bi
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The Brave New World of
Power BI and Hybrid Cloud
27th August 2015
• Intro
• Session Goals
• Short History Lesson
• Overview of Power BI Components + Demos
• Transitioning and Future Functionality
• Pitfalls & Other Info
• Q&A
Agenda
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• Delivery Manager: Analytics, Collaboration & Content at NEC
• Certified End-to-End Microsoft BI practitioner
• Trainer
• Microsoft PTSP
• Co-organiser of Perth Modern Excel & Power BI User Group
Speaker Introduction
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• Understand landscape prior to Power BI 2.0
• See where Office 365 and Azure fit it
• Learn how to leverage on-premises assets
• Explore functionality and learn deployment process
• Understand how to transition
• Know what to watch out for
Session Goals
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A Walk Down Memory Lane…
Self-Service (2010) Team Enterprise Cloud (2014)
Power View
Power QueryPower Map
PowerPivot for Excel 2010 (Add-in)
PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010(SQL 2008 R2)
SSAS Tabular (SQL 2012)
PowerPivot in Excel 2013
& SharePoint 2013
Power BI for Office 365
Q&A
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Power BI Represents Further Shifting in Paradigm
Everyone
Analyst to end user
IT to end user
2nd wave
Self-service BI
1st wave
Technical BI
3rd wave
End user BI
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• Free, thick client
• “Power” components integrated in standalone designer• Power Query
• Power Pivot
• Power View (v3?)
• Use it to source, cleanse, mashup, enrich, visualise, publish
• DEMO: Power BI Desktop Intro
Power BI 2.0 – Power BI Desktop
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• Our Yoga Studio
• Concerned wife
needs
performance
numbers
End-to-End Demo Scenario
hot yoga r edefi ned ...
I need insights… FAST!
Data required for Analysis
- Excel
- Azure
- Web
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• a.k.a “Get Data” in Power BI Desktop
• Fetch data from a HUGE variety of sources
• Transform with point and click, or advanced (M script)
• DEMO: Getting the data in
Power Query
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• a.k.a “Modeling” in Power BI Desktop
• In-memory, columnar database engine
• Add calculated columns, calculated measures
• Relate disparate data sets
• DEMO: Connecting up and adding value
Power Pivot
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• a.k.a “Report” in Power BI Desktop
• MUCH improved from Excel/SharePoint/Office 365
• Easier controls, more formatting options, more visuals
• DEMO: Obligatory eye candy
Power View
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• Login via powerbi.com, or use App Launcher in Office 365
• Lets business users leverage published data
• Create independent cloud hosted reports
• “Dashboards” let us pin individual components, then drill
• Create Group Workspaces, share with others
• DEMO: Publishing to Power BI
Power BI Cloud Service
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• Ask questions in natural language
• Machine learning reads fields, data and applies semantics
• Then customise and pin result
• DEMO: Quick Insights
Q & A
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• Allows scheduled refresh (on-prem sources)
• Windows service on always on computer creates bridge
• Uses Azure Service Bus
• No firewall port opening
• Not required for online sources
• DEMO: Refresh from on-prem to cloud
Other Features – The Personal Gateway
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• Organisational
• Bundle a set of visuals, data etc and publish. Leverages Office 365 Groups
• Prebuilt
• Dynamics CRM, SQL Database Auditing, SalesForce, Google ang more…
Other Features – Content Packs
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• Windows, Android, iOS
• DEMO: Mobile Experience
Other Features – Native Mobile Apps
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• Install “Power BI SSAS Connector” on Tabular Server
• Similar to personal gateway
• Live connections
Other Features – Connect to SSAS On-Prem
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• Still getting much love
• Excel 2016 has all Power BI components natively integrated
• You can import Excel PowerPivot models into Power BI Desktop• Model, data sheets, Power View work. Excel pivot table reports don’t.
• Nice improvements: non destructive editing, field search
• What will this mean for feature parity?
But, I LOVE Excel! Transitioning…
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Many Architectural Options… this is a subset!
On Premises
SharePoint
SSAS Tabular
Structured Data
External (Web, Odata,
JSON etc)
PowerPivot/Power BI
Spreadsheets
Most sources can be refreshed directly in Power BI Cloud (not shown)
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Free Pro ($12.70 user/month)
Data Volume 1GB Data per user 10GB Data per user
Refresh Daily, 10k rows/hr Hourly, 1M rows/hr
Live Source Interactive - Yes
Gateway Support - Yes
Office 365 Group share - Yes
Org. Content Packs - Yes
Security via AD Groups - Yes (coming)
Data Catalog use - Yes (redir. to old version)
Tiers and Pricing
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• Still no Power Map anywhere but Excel
• Cant create hierarchies or KPIs in Power BI Desktop.. yet
• Excel Import fails on dummy tables
• SQL Azure refresh can fail, but is workaround
• Gateways rely on ADFS – same user in Power BI and On-prem• Only 1 Personal gateway at a time
• Power BI for Office 365 is around till 31 Dec. 2015
Pitfalls, Gaps, Other Info
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• Thanks for your valuable time!
• Thanks to NEC for pizza sponsorship
• Go TRY IT, and do come chat to me
Wrapping Up and Question Time