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Agenda

IntroductionWhat is NewDemosGetting StartedResourcesQuestions

“With Power BI, it’s simple. Everything becomes possible.” Philip Dean, Tees and Hartlepool National Health Services Trust

Power BI

Power BI empowers anyone to securely connect and explore data sources, create dashboards, get intelligent real-time insights and proactive alerts

Dashboards Insights Alerts

Experience your data. Any data, any way, anywhere

Power BI

Power BI Desktop

PowerBI.com

Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows

Power BI ArchitectureWeb browser

HTML

PowerBI.com

Partner apps

Office 365

Dynamics

Azure data services

Microsoft cloud

Non Microsoft cloud software systems(e.g., SaaS applications, IOT scenarios, and data streams)

Non-Microsoft cloudOn-premises data

SQL Server analysis services

Databases andother data sources

Mobile apps

iOS

Power BI Desktop

Business analyst tools

What is New

Data Sources, In-Memory or Direct Connectivity Data PreparationModeling and CalculationsEnhanced Report Design and Web Authoring Group Collaboration and Content PacksMobile AppsAPI and Custom Visualizations

Data Sources, In-Memory or Direct Connectivity Connecting and refreshing on-premises data sources with Power BI Personal Gateway

SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, IBM, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SharePoint List, CSV, XML, Text, Excel, Access, Custom SQL, OData, Web and more

Spark for Azure HDInsightAzure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure SQL DatabasePopular SaaS services

Google Analytics, MailChimp, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing, QuickBooks Online, GitHub, ZenDesk Visual Studio Online and more

Azure Streaming Analytics and REST API

Demo

Data Preparation

World-class data mashup and transformation

45+ data prep functions: Dedup, Merge, Append, Group By, Transpose, Reverse, Count, Replace, Pivot, Unpivot, Split, Format, Parse and Aggregate

Powerful M language

Modeling and Calculations

Enhanced data modeling with 1:1, 1:N and N:N

Calculated Columns

Data Categorization

Smart DAX Formula Editor

200+ DAX functions

Demo

Enhanced Report Design and Web AuthoringNatural language query

Fine-grained control of charts, colors, images and rich text with URL support

More data visualizations: Tree Map, Combo Chart, Funnel, Gauge, Waterfall, Donut, Area Chart, and others

Excel report rendering

Demo

Group Collaboration and Content PacksGroup owned datasets, reports and dashboards

New code-free Organizational content packs

Demo

Mobile Apps

Native touch optimized apps for iOS, Android and Windows devices

Annotations, alerts, favorites and share

Improved design, globalization within visuals and performance

API and Custom Visualizations

New REST API functions for real-time data

Additional REST API developer samples

New open source D3.js commercial grade, visualization framework on GitHub

It’s easy to get started…PowerBI.com

Resources

http://community.powerbi.com

https://support.powerbi.com

https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi

Questions?

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