3. Hi, I am Patrick Guimonet
10 times MVP
Office Servers and Services
4 years MS Regional Director
aOS Community
Founder and member
Greater Paris, France
International speaker and
events organizer
Enterprise Solutions
Architect - Abalon
My event history
Feel free to connect
6. Our goals for this session
✓ Analyze small waves of
innovations in Microsoft 365
✓Provide a 101 introduction to
Power BI
➢With some useful tips and
lessons learnt
✓Present big waves of
innovations in Microsoft 365
10. ”No man ever steps in the same river twice
for it’s not the same river
and he is not the same man.”
Heraclitus
”No man ever steps in the same Office 365 twice.” Patrick Guimonet
An ever evolving
service
18. Easy ways to
enhance YOUR
roadmap
1. Don’t bet too much on products with
small number of enhancements
2. Focus your adoption effort on most
changing services
3. Not all products are there Power BI?
22. Download Power BI Desktop
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/desktop
https://aka.ms/pbidesktopstore
Pro Tip: install from the Windows store to
get updates automatically
24. Lessons
learned
• Numerical value counted by default
• Date hierarchy created by default
• Sort on fields is alphabetical by default
25. 5 easy ways to
improve your
Power BI
reports
1. Add a card
(to get the number of selected items)
2. Change colors
3. Add data labels
4. Add a slicer
5. Edit interactions
28. Lessons
learned
• Rename steps for better maintenance
• Not everything should be solved in
Power Query. For example date formatting
• Select the corresponding field
• Go to Modeling tab / Format and choose
the desired one
29. 4 easy ways to
enhance your
data in Power
Query
1. Replace values
2. Split columns by delimiters
3. Add a custom column with a
formula
4. Add Conditional Column
33. That’s a moving target
Windows file server
Exchange / Outlook
201020001990 2018
Lync / Skype
Intranet Portals
SharePoint
Content management
SharePoint
Social network
Yammer
SharePoint
Spaces
Teams
Productivity apps
Power BI & Co
Sync OneDrive
40. Thanks for surfing with me!
Surfing Office 365 waves, Q2 CY2018 update
Surfing the Office 365 Waves: An Office 365 Roadmap Analysis with Power BI
Surfer sur les vagues Office 365, mise à jour Q2 CY2018
Surfer sur les vagues Office 365