Slides deck for the PowerBI and Office 365 solution for a small business "Oil Test Systems" Full presentation in my Youtube channel or in my site: YanaBerkovich.com

1. Give more power to the users! -
Decision Support Using Power BI SP &
O365 data for a Small Business
Yana Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com

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3. Who am I?
Consultant, Product Manager & Office 365 expert
Involved in the BI, BA, SharePoint, O365, PM IT
communities
BI Analyst at BCHousing
Experimenting with O365
Worked as SharePoint everything, will happily
share my insights!
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4. Contents
• Introduction – Decision Support
• Meet Oil Test Systems
• What is the problem?
• How PowerBI and SharePoint give more power to the users?
• Q&A

5. Introduction – Decision Support
• James Taylor, leader of Decision Management Solutions
• http://decisionmanagementsolutions.com/
• Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business
Rules and Predictive Analytics (IBM Press)

6. DDS – Decision Support System
Insights
Information
Data
A decision support system
(DSS) analyzes business data
and presents it so that users
can make business decisions
It is an "informational
application“ (TechTarget)

7. Meet Oil Test Systems
Ltd.
• Small business 50 employees
• This company is measuring oil
quality in vehicles parts and
sending the results to customers
• Oil Analysis, Coolant analysis,
Heavy duty oil fuel Analysis
• Recommendations which oil to
use

8. What are they testing?
Physical Tests
 Visuals (color, foam, oil, fuel,
magnetic precipitate, non-magnetic
precipitate, & odor)
 pH
 Glycol %
 Freeze Point
 Nitrite
 SCA Number
 Specific Conductance
 Total Hardness
Corrosion Metals & Inhibitors by Atomic
Emission Spectroscopy (AES)
 Iron
 Copper
 Aluminum
 Lead
 Tin
 Zinc
 Silver
 Calcium
 Magnesium
 Borate
 Silicon
 Molybdate
 Phosphorus
 Potassium
 Sodium
The Real Clients

9. Behind the science of Oil Test Systems

10. Oil Test’s Customers needs
• View their reports online instead of sending them via email
• Be able to communicate with the Lab technician online
• Discuss other options and analyze different oil types
• Have automated updates to their reports
• Future needs
• Have an online update in their organization sites and not Oil test systems site
• Advanced decision making –
• How does weather affects the oil?
• How does the location affects the oil performance?
Test
Component
Analyze data Compare to
standards
Make
recommenda
tions
Send to the
client

11. 11 | SharePoint Saturday Calgary – 01 APRIL 2017
What is PowerBI and
how does it work?
Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service

12. Demo

13. Behind the science of Oil Test Systems

14. The technical part
1. Create the list in SharePoint group and configure the site
2. Fill the data
3. Open PowerBI
4. Choose get data
5. Configure the query
6. Save and update
7. Add data visualizations
8. Create report
9. Publish report to the online group

15. What about SRS? Whats the big difference?
Power BI is a self Service BI while SSRS is a self
service BI
More PowerBI to the Users! Devs have enough power
as it is…
The end user is the one creating and consuming
reports

16. PowerBI Insights
Oil sales records
Oil standard Industry values
Oil Results Archived
Current oil test results
Future storage for the oil sales data
Min Max and Distribution for each result

17. Give more power to the users! -
Thank you
Yana Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com

18. Microsoft Data Amp
WHERE DATA GETS TO WORK
Put data, analytics and artificial intelligence into the
heart of your solutions. Get the latest on big data
and machine learning innovations.
Join us online April 19, 2017 at 8AM PT
microsoft.com/data-amp