Sundar Rajan, PMP
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Sundar Rajan, PMP
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Sundar Rajan, PMP
Agenda:
Case study – dashboards the old way
Interactive Look Ahead Report
Using Power BI Visualizations
Power BI with Project Online
Power BI with Project Server
A look at Power BI applications elsewhere
Scheduling options
Q&A
Even measuring your sleep quality!
Business intelligence, or BI, is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of software applications used to analyze an organization's raw data
BI as a discipline is made up of several related activities, including data mining, online analytical processing, querying and reporting
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The article below takes you step by step on getting MS Project data into an Access databaseCreating Access database from MS Project schedule
Log into PowerBI service
Navigate to datasets
ACMS Assignment usage - > Click Report
Drop a slicer for Work Stream
Customize to horizontal and frame items
Drop a table, select Task fields
Drop a slicer for Finish (Date visualization)
See how selecting Workstream or Finish
drives Task data display
PowerBI Content Pack for Project OnlineCreating-burndown-charts-for-projectExtending the PowerBI content pack for Project Online
Step by Step MPUG article on GANTT custom visualUsing the Power BI GANTT Visualzation for your Projects
Desktop MS Project Project Online Project Server
Task Updates Spreadsheets and email (cumbersome)
PWA – Individual updates
PWA – Individual updates
Reporting and Dashboards
Limited Visual ReportsExport to Excel
REST API – SQL reports
SSRS (Full SQL Server Reporting)
Data Visualizations Export to Access (Cumbersome)
Power BI Power BI
OLAP (Pivot tables) N/A N/A Excel PivotsCube Data generated Nightly
Cost $600 per user $54 premier, $8 users per month
Expensive
Implementation Single day Easy for Private OrgsState - needs liaison with CDT
6-9 MonthA project by itself
Establish Schedule standards for Analysis
Outline levels
Custom columns e.g. Work Stream
IPOR – Schedule Analysis
Create a Content Pack of Schedule QA
and Analysis dashboards
Run these against schedules
PSR
Create a Content Pack of Schedule
Analysis dashboards
• Presentation Layer
• BI Designer
• Advanced Power BI Report creation
• Power User
• Department focused Power BI Report creation
• Consumer
• End user that consumes Power BI Reports
and Dashboards
• Semantic Layer
• Data Modeler
• Organize, clean and contribute to transform
data into business semantics.
• BI Architect
• Task with understanding the business, the
data and the questions – oversee and maps
• Data Layer
• DBA
• Creates and Assist with Company’s enterprise
data.
• IT Administration
• Task with sever administration, including
Power BI Enterprise Gateway.
“Any data, anywhere, any
time”
- Bryant Avey, Chief Geek, internuntius
The only thing that gives an organization a
competitive edge...is what it knows, how it uses what
it knows and how fast it can know something.
- Larry Prusak (1996)
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5 seconds to sign up.
5 minutes to wow!
Power BI delivers custom data visualization to business teams
• Bringing the power of data visualization to business users
• “Power BI and custom visualizations fuel our self-service BI culture”
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Self Service BI Model
Free PowerBI Desktop
Mobile enabled
Monthly Enhancements by community user requests (voting)
Natural language queries (‘R’ language)
• Alexa like (Cortana) ntegration
New Content packs all the time
• SharePoint
• Microsoft CRM
• GitHUB
• Project Online
• Project Server (SQL Server and OLAP)
Update cycle – user requests!
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Power BI is *NOT* business
intelligence.
Business Intelligence is an
on-going strategy
You can not buy business
intelligence.
You can buy tools and
technology but BI is about
people and data.
Power BI is a set of tools and
technologies.
PAST: What Happened?
• Reactive reporting
• Common among most
companies
PRESENT: What is Happening?
• KPI’s and CPM Concepts
• Streaming analytics
FUTURE: What will Happen?
• Predict based on trends and
external data
• Understand impact and what-if
analysis
Microsoft Power BI
• Cloud based service (Part of Office
365)
• Access to all data, wherver it may live
• Ask questions, integrate with cortana
analytics and more
• Create curated content based on your
company needs
• Share insights across web, mobile and
embedded within your own
applications. “Any data, anywhere, any
time”
Twitter Analytics Facebook Analytics Sales and Marketing Sample
(with natural language queries)
Project Online Content Pack SharePoint Lists and
Document Libraries
Extending Project Online Content Pack
Sales Scorecard Live Dashboard
SQL Server Info Power BI Dashboard
Portfolio Slicer for Power BI - investment tracking
Create your personalized Twitter Analytics Dashboard in Power BI in 10 minutes!
Sales and Marketing Sample (with natural language queries)
SQL Server Info Dashboard
• Free download that starts your Power
BI experience.
• Not an end user tool, but a power user
and designer tool.
• Can be used to mash, model and
design engaging experiences.
• Transform and clean data
• Design once and view anywhere
“Any data, anywhere, any
time”
Visualizations Measures (Expressions) Data Modelling Diverse Data Sources
(CRM, SharePoint, GitHUB, SQL Server)
• Consume from almost any device
• Microsoft
• Android
• Apple – Including Apple Watch
• Set alerts that allow for proactive
engagement
• Offline cache for dashboard
consumption without an internet
connection.
“Any data, anywhere, any
time”
Dashboard on phone
Look at early response to Power BI (Microsoft)
SQL Server Info Power BI Dashboard
Power BI and SharePoint – Step by step on how to use Power BI with SP
Power BI Guiding Learning: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/guided-learning/
PowerBI.com Blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
