Power BI for Office 365 provides new ways to work with data in Excel and Office 365. Now you can search, discover, access, shape and transform data, analyze and create interactive visualizations and share and collaborate from anywhere, on any device. This session will show the current version of Power BI for Office 365 and its features.

1. Power BI for Office 365
TOMISLAV PIASEVOLI, PIASEVOLI ANALYTICS LTD
SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS 2013
ZAGREB, NOVEMBER 27-28 2013

2. sponsors

3. POWER BI FOR OFFICE 365

4. Power BI for Office 365
• Microsoft’s new cloud-based BI platform:
• online service in the cloud (SharePoint Online)
• self-service BI features on-premise (Excel)
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data discovery and modeling
analysis and vizualization
insights and collaboration
access from anywhere
• Available since August 2013 in a preview mode only

5. Provisioning
• Receive promotion code URL upon approval (e-mail)
• Setup Office 365 account (Plan E3)
• Assign user licenses
• Create a Team Site
• Add Power BI app (or download it from the Store if it’s not
already there)
• Optionally add samples
• Optionally assign additional users

6. Power BI app
• A business intelligence service for sharing and viewing large
Excel workbooks and data views
• Features:
• data refresh from on-premises data sources
• Q&A (get instant answers and explore data by typing questions)
• Data Catalogue (enable data discovery and search across your
organization)
• support for HTML 5
• Power BI Mobile app in Windows Store
• Power BI for Office 365 license is required

7. Power BI admin center
• System health
• Data sources
• Gateways
• Role management
• Settings

8. DEMO - POWER BI FOR OFFICE 365

9. EXCEL 2013

10. Add-ins
• Power Query
• Power Pivot
• Power View
• Power Map
- download and install
- built-in, enable
- built-in
- download and install

11. Power Query
• search and access data
• clean, transform, merge

12. DEMO - POWER QUERY FOR EXCEL 2013

13. Power Pivot
• In-memory analytics and modeling
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relationships
calculations
hierarchies
KPIs
security

14. DEMO - POWER PIVOT (EXCEL 2013)

15. Power View
• vizualize and analyze the data:
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tables
charts
slicers
filters
interaction

16. DEMO - POWER VIEW (EXCEL 2013)

17. Power Map
• vizualize the data on the map
• 3D geospatial analysis
• interactive views and tours

18. DEMO - POWER MAP FOR EXCEL 2013

19. Summary
• Power BI for Office 365
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provides new ways to work with data in Excel and Office 365
search, discover, access, shape and transform data
analyze and create interactive visualizations
share and collaborate from anywhere, on any device
• currently in a Preview mode only!
Register here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel/power-bi-FX104080667.aspx
(or simply search for the „Power BI” term)

20. questions?
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@TPIASEVOLI

21. thank you.
SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS 2013
ZAGREB, NOVEMBER 27-28 2013