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Microsoft Power BI 101

By Gerhard Brückl


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Gerhard Brückl

working with MS BI since 2006

focused on Analytics and Reporting

Blog: gbrueckl.wordpress.com

eMail: [email protected]

About me

http://gbrueckl.wordpress.com/http://gbrueckl.wordpress.com/


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What is Power BI?

Power BI tools & features

• Self Service BI

• Collaboration

• Administration

Agenda


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What is Power BI?

ACollaborateCreate

ConsumerPower User

Collection of tools &

features to support

Self-Service BI

Specific to user groups


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BI – Architecture

Power

View

Power

Pivot

Gate

On

Power

Query

Power


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• Power Query• Power Pivot

• Power View

• Power Map

Self-Service BI Tools


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Self-Service BI Tools

PQPower Query PPPower Pivot PVPower View

• Find/Explore

• Extract• Transform

• Load

• Model

• Combine• Calculate

• Store

• Explor

• Interac• Analyz

• Visual


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• SharePoint Online• Power BI sites

• Power BI Q&A

• Mobile App• Shared Queries (Administration)

Collaboration Features


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Collaboration Features

Power BI

Site

Q&A

• BI Portal

• View/Share

• Natural lang

within BI Co

Mobile

App

• View BI Con

on mobile de


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• Data Management and Stewardship – Single point of maintenance

• Integrated Monitoring

– Reusable in Power BI tools

• Web interface

Administrative Features


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Self-Service – Power Query

• ETL tool for Power BI

• Supports Excel 2010 / 2013 (Office 365)

• Fully integrated


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Many

more

CSV

• Wide variety of sources

• Credential Management

Extract

Transform

Share

Load

M

• Easy to use

• Excel-like

• Powerful Scriptlanguage “M”

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DEMO


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• xVelocity – in-memory column store – High performance / compression

• Flexible combination and modeling of any

• DAX – Data Analysis Expression

Self-Service – Power Pivot


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Many

more

External

Sources

CSV

Data Model

Ƒ(x)

DAX

Internal

Source

PQ

Many

more


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DEMO


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Self-Service – Reporting

• Ad-Hoc reporting tool

– Data exploration

– Visualization

– Interactive Dashboards

• Web & Client

– Mobile support / HTML 5

• Tabular models only

– Power Pivot

– BISM

• Advancedanalysis

• 2D / 3

• Intera

• Client only

• Any sourc• Exce

• Powe

PMPower View

PVPower View


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Self-Service –Power Pivot & Power Map

DEMO


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• App for SharePoint• BI Portal

– Aggregates BI content

– View & Share BI content

• Hosts Q&A

Collaboration – Power BI sites


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• Native language Query

• Answer displayed as report

• Searches all BI content

Collaboration – Q&A


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Demo

Collaboration


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• Download via Windows Store

• No dedicated App for other platforms yet

– Viewable via browser (HTML5)

Collaboration – Mobile App


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Demo

Collaboration


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• Gateways – Integrate On-Premises data

• Data Sources

– Expose Metadata

• Shared Queries

• Security and role management

Administration – Data managemen


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Administration – Data via Gateway

Po

QuGateway

GW1

GW1 DS12

Setup gatewaySetup data source

3

QueryQue

Gatewa

42

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Collaboration – Shared Query

Po

Qu

12

CreateSearch for Shared

Queries

1

Execut

& Share Query

3

2

3

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Demo

Administration


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THANK YOU!• For attending this session and

PASS SQLRally Nordic 2013, Stockholm

Gerhard Brueckl_Microsoft Power BI

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