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Business Intelligence
Nov 19 – 5:00pm (UTC-06:00)
Data Vault Data Warehouse Architecture –
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Book Readers
Nov 20 – 12:00pm (UTC – 08:00)
Delivering Business Intelligence with
Microsoft SQL 2012 – by Brian Larson
Global Russian
Nov 20 – 3:00pm (UTC +3:00)
Конкуренция за ресурсы в
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presented by Евгений Хабаров (Eugene
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Business Analytics
Nov 25 – 12:00pm (GMT-05:00)
Integrating SSRS with SharePoint –
presented by Kevin Goff
Application Development
Dec 6 – 12:00pm (GMT-07:00)
Isn’t That Spatial: Spatial Data for the App
Dev – presented by Jason Horner
Virtualization
Dec 11 – 10:00am (GMT – 07:00)
Virtualization Q&A with Brent Ozar
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What is Power BI?
Self Service BI with the familiarity of Office and the power of the cloud
A BI portal for sharing workbooks and reports with colleagues.
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What is self-service BI?
End users designing and deploying their own reports and analysis
inside a tool that is familiar (Excel).
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Power Q & A Demo
Note: Q&A works with sample data only at this time
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Power Q&A
Uses natural language query technology to provide you with immediate
answers in the form of interactive charts and graphs based on the
questions you type into the speech bubble.
Cloud only feature for now but if successful will make it into On Prem
versions of the software.
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Power BI for Office 365
Insights and visualizations are better when shared. Power BI excels at
making insights available to everyone who should see them, securing
those reports, and enabling them to be seen from anywhere in the
world:
Data Management – when you create a great query in Excel, you can
share it with others, manage its availability, and see how much it gets
used. With the data management features of Power BI, not only can you
share your own query-creating genius, you can find other queries
easily, too. You’re collaborating from within Excel, and sharing your
efforts online. It’s powerful.
Power BI for Mobile – See the latest reports posted to your Power BI
site from a rich, immersive app on your mobile device.
Power BI Sites – this is the heart of your collaborative Power BI
experience. Quickly create collaborative Power BI sites for your team to
share and view reports. Larger workbook viewing is also supported (up
to 250MB) so that users can view and interact with larger workbooks
through the browser.
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Power BI sites for Office 365
Power BI for Office 365 offers the Power BI sites application, which
transforms a SharePoint Online site into a more robust, dynamic
location to share and find Excel workbooks and provides a visual,
interactive view tailored to BI. It also gives you easy access to other BI
features available in Power BI for Office 365.
The Power BI sites app is available when you subscribe to Power BI for
Office 365 Preview. You can apply it to a new or an existing site in
SharePoint Online Enterprise.
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Power BI Sites for Office 365
You can see the same workbooks in your standard SharePoint
Documents library and in the Power BI site – the Power BI site is just
another, richer view of those workbooks. If you delete a workbook from
the Power BI site, you’re deleting it from the SharePoint Documents
library, too.
The Power BI site currently only shows Excel workbooks stored on the
site. If you have other files on the site, you can see them in the
SharePoint Documents library, but not in the Power BI site view.
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Setup
Register for the Power BI trial at powerbi.com or add the app from the
office app store if you are a current office 365 user. Setup can be a bit
frustrating.
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Tools used for Power BI
Power Pivot: For creating and customizing flexible data models within
Excel.
Power View: For creating interactive charts, graphs and other visual
representations of data.
Power Query: Enables customers to easily search and access public
data and their organization's data, all within Excel (formerly known as
"Data Explorer").
Power Map: A 3D data visualization tool for mapping, exploring and
interacting with geographic and temporal data (formerly known as
product codename "Geoflow").
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Power Query Demo
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Data Management Gateway
Setup a Data Management Gateway for access to on prem data.
Manually refresh data for report.
Schedule refresh for report
Data refresh of Power Query connections is not supported in the
preview.
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Mobile Power BI
Reports are viewable on tablets and smart phones. Uses HTML5
instead of Silverlight so the reports will work cross-platform
Power BI app is available for Windows 8 in the Windows App Store.
Not supported by Windows 8.1 *
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Sharing Data
With Power BI sites, sharing is built in from the beginning. Any users
with permission to access the site can see workbooks as they’re
displayed on the site, unless permissions are further restricted for a
particular workbook or folder.
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View Query Usage
Get information on what queries are being used the most
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Power Map Demo
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Licensing and Cost
Should be available “soon” for general release. Pricing model will be
per user, per month.
Currently available as an app in the office.com store available with the
trial.
Rumors are it will be available as a stand alone product.
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Resources
PowerBI.com – sign up
Getting Started with Power BI - http://office.microsoft.com/enus/excel/power-bi-download-add-in-FX104087144.aspx
PowerBI Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/
Power Pivot Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/
Power BI Forum - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/enUS/home?category=powerbi
Power BI Contest – www.powerbicontest.com
chance to win an Xbox One console, a Surface Pro 2 or a PASS BAC
2014 VIP experience
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Questions?
Jason Burton
Burton IT Consulting, LLC
Evansville PASS President
Twitter - @jasonburton
Email - Jason@burtonitconsulting.com
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