Microsoft Power Query for Excel: Discover and Refine Your Data

Miguel LlopisProgram Manager Power BI Team – Microsoft Corporation

DBI-B327

Why Power Query?

Agenda

What’s New in Power Query?

Coming Soon to Power Query

Challenges with Data acquisition

- Finding & Connecting to data is too difficult- Experiences for data connectivity are too fragmented- Data often needs to be reshaped before consumption- Any shaping is one-off and not repeatable- Combining data from multiple sources is difficult- Volume, Velocity & Variety

Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and access internal &

external data

Clean, transform, and shape data

Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology

Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s

Bring your data to life with interactive visualization

Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights

Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and access internal &

external data

Clean, transform, and shape data

Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology

Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s

Bring your data to life with interactive visualization

Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights

Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and access internal &

external data

Clean, transform, and shape data

Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology

Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s

Bring your data to life with interactive visualization

Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights

Powerful Self-Service BI with Excel 2013 Search and access internal &

external data

Clean, transform, and shape data

Merge and combine data from multiple sourcesLightning fast analytics with xVelocity in-memory technology

Model relationships, custom measures, hierarchies, and KPI’s

Bring your data to life with interactive visualization

Explore data in new ways to discover hidden insights

Current State of the Art

The Data tab

From Access

From Web

From Text

From Text

From Text

From Text

From SQL Server

From SQL Server

From SQL Server

The Other Data tab

Importing data into PowerPivot

Importing data into PowerPivot

Importing data into PowerPivot

Even more data sources

Even more data sources

And finally….

And finally….

And finally….

Why Power Query?

Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources, including publicly available data of all sizes & shapes.

Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries over any data source, any size.

Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources.

Joins across different data sources; ability to create custom views over data that can then be shared with others in your organization

Demo

AnnouncementPower Query October Update released today!

New Transformation: Use Headers as First Row

New Column Name field in Merge Columns dialog

Quick Access Toolbar in Query Editor Ribbon

Warning for stale preview in new queries (previews older than 24 hours)

Function Invocation from Search

Preserve Excel Number formats in the worksheet on query refresh

What’s New in the PQ October Update

Check it out later today in the Power BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/powerbi

DemoComing Soon to Power Query

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