Surfing Microsoft 365 waves: a Microsoft 365 roadmap analysis with Power BI - ESPC18 Let’s review in this session what are past, current and future technological waves in Office 365 and how we can better understand Microsoft directions based on an Office 365 roadmap analysis with Power BI.

1. Surfing Office 365 Microsoft 365
Waves: a Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Analysis with Power BI
Patrick Guimonet
Enterprise Solutions Architect
CEO Abalon – France

3. @patricg
Who am I? Patrick Guimonet
9 times MVP
Office Servers and Services
2 times MS RD
aOS Community
Founder and member
Greater Paris, France
International speaker and
events organizer
Enterprise Solutions
Architect - Abalon
My events

4. Béret : FALSE
Wine : Partly true
But I like Beer as well
Foulard : FALSE
Baguette : Totally true

5. Who are you?
BusinessIT

6. Make every ESPC18 session count…
1. Connect:
Meet someone new at the start of each session
2. Feedback:
Don’t forget to rate this session on the conference app
3. Q&A:
We will allow time to get some of your questions answered

7. 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
✓Analyze big waves of
innovations in Microsoft 365

8. ”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

9. Where is the roadmap?
From office.com/office-365-roadmap
To https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap

10. To Analyze we should understand
➢ How Microsoft develops its
services nowadays

11. From ideas to feature in Microsoft 365 (simplified)

12. What is a Minimum Viable Product?

13. MVP way of life!

14. #3 About data analysis

15. Lessons
learned
1. Create Hierarchy to analyze date
data
2. Group similar items for simplified
analysis

16. PBI M365 roadmap V3.1 2018-11-26
View in Power BI
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24. Easy ways to
enhance
YOUR
roadmap
1. Don’t bet too much products with
small number of enhancements
2. Focus your adoption effort on most
changing services
3. Not all products are there Power BI?

25. www.microsoft.com/en-
us/microsoft-365/roadmap
Business Apps Release Notes
User Voice
Social networks
Community
Conferences
Information is available

26. Download Power BI Desktop
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/
en-us/desktop
https://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=45
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27. #1 From data to report in 2 minutes

28. A Simple report in 2 minutes

29. Lessons
learned
• Numerical value counted by default
• Date hierarchy created by default
• Sort on fields is alphabetical by default

30. 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

31. Power BI step 1 : Identify data sources
From office.com/office-365-roadmap
To https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap

32. Import Data

33. Only small changes…
But it can break Power Query!
From Office 365 roadmap
To Microsoft365 roadmap

34. DATE FORMATTING
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/Date-Display-Formats/td-p/2145

35. #2 About data cleaning and transformation

36. Queries edition

37. 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
1
2
3

38. 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

39. REFERENCE
• Learn about Power Query formulas
• Power Query M function reference

40. Technological
waves are much
bigger

41. Technological waves in collaboration

42. That’s a moving target
Windows file server
Exchange / Outlook
201020001990 2016
Lync / Skype
Intranet Portals
SharePoint
Content management
SharePoint
Social network
Yammer
SharePoint
Spaces
Teams
Productivity apps
Power BI & Co
Sync OneDrive

43. SharePoint
spaces

44. Conclusion

45. Power BI in 3 easy steps
Step 1:
Data Sources
Step2: Data cleaning and transformation
with Power Query editor
Step 3: Reports and analysis

46. And beyond
Reports and Analysis Power BI Desktop Publish and share Power BI Service
Internal
E5 or Power BI Pro licenses
Web
Free
PPTX export
Free

47. Thank you for surfing with me!
Surfing Office 365 waves, Q2 CY2018 update
Surfing the Office 365 Waves: An Office 365 Roadmap Analysis with Power BI
Latest version of the report Nov. 23
rd
, 2018
Surfer sur les vagues Office 365, mise à jour Q2 CY2018
Surfer sur les vagues Office 365