Post on 19-Jan-2017
MicrosoftData InsightsSummitMarch 22-23Bellevue, WA
Power BI and ExcelBetter together
Arina HantsisSR Software Engineer PBIO Haifa, Israel
Aviv EzrachiSR Product ManagerPBIO Haifa, Israel
Leverage the strengths of both worlds
The unique BI offering of Excel and Power BIAn observation exercise Excel and Power BI better togetherDemos
Agenda Agenda The unique BI offering of Excel and Power BIAn observation exercise Excel and Power BI better togetherDemos
Excel BI unique strengths
Get data
Analyze
Share
consume
Analyze with Pivot tables and cube functions
Data grid for in place calculations
Report with rich formatting capabilities
Automate with VBA
Power BI unique strengthsGet data from on premises and cloud services
Your whole business on one dashboard
Rich and interactive visualizations
Natural language queries, Quick insights
Get data
Visualize
Q&A
Monitor
First glanceBI side by side
learn once use everywhereBI Shared baseline
3rd party apps
SSRS & Power View Excel Power BI
DesktopPowerBI.co
m Mobile BI
One Semantic Model for BI
Data SourcesRelational database LOB applications Cloud services Analytics
platform system
Get dataData modelData queriesData Access
Power QueryMulti Dimensional or Tabular
MDX/DAX/MImport or Direct Query
Better together
VUJA DE
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Something you’ve seen or done countless times before, but you feel as if you’re experiencing it the first time
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Can You See the Opportunity Right in Front of You?An exercise published by the distinguished Prof. and best selling author Vijay Govindarajan and Srikanth Srinivas on the Harvard Business Review blog
An observation exercise
How many squares do you see?
An observation exercise
Out of the box
Systematic view
Firstglance
16 squares
60 squares30 blue squares and 30 squares with white edges
30 squares16 (1×1 squares) + 9 (2×2 squares) + 4 (3×3 squares) + 1 (4×4 square)
The power of observation
You don’t want to miss something which is right in front of you because you stopped looking too soon
Demo
Out of the box
Systematic view
First glance
BI side by side
Analyze in Excel
- Publish to Power BI from Excel 16- Q&A over Excel data- Embedded Excel online in Power BI- Power BI publisher for Excel
Better for Excel BI usersShare of workbooks grid made easy
Keep your data up to date
Grid data from all your workbooks on a single dashboard
Q&A, quick insights and Cortana integration over Excel data on import
Get data
Visualize and
Analyze
Q&A
Monitor
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes” / Marcel Proust
Demo
Out of the box
Systematic view
First glance
BI side by side
Analyze in Excel, ability to connect Excel to Power BI Data Model and create Pivot/Charts
- Publish to Power BI from Excel 16- Q&A over Excel data- Embedded Excel online in Power BI- Power BI publisher for Excel
Better for Power BI usersAnalyze your Power BI data in Excel• Create Pivot tables & Pivot
charts• Slice and dice data with slicers• Drill through to your Power BI
report data in Excel• Save as xlsx file, share with
others
Get data
Analyze
Share
Consume
Excel and Power BI better together
Out of the box
Systematic view
Firstglance
Keep using Excel and Power BI side by side
Connect Excel workbooks to your data in the Power BI
Import or connect your Excel workbooks to Power BI
Excel and Power BI Better together
Our main take away
Click icon to add pictureKeep using
the tool of
your choice
Q&A
• Ask Excel Questions• Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/excel)
• Provide Product Feedback• Excel UserVoice (http://excel.uservoice.com)
• Engage with Excel• Twitter (https://twitter.com/msexcel, @MsExcel)• Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/microsoftexcel)
• Excel Announcements • Excel Blog (https://blogs.office.com/excel)
• Try Excel 2016 • https://products.office.com/en-us/try
Excel Communities and Feedback
• Ask Power BI Questions• Microsoft Power BI community (http://community.powerbi.com/)
• Provide Product Feedback• Power BI User Voice (https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi/)
• Power BI Announcements • Power BI Blog (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/)
• Try Power BI• Power BI downloads (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/)
Power BI Communities and Feedback
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