In this session we will take a look at the changes that Microsoft has released for the Power BI Service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile Apps. Microsoft continues to release updates to Power BI on a weekly and monthly basis. Some of the changes since we last met include items such as Custom Visualizations, Full Screen Mode, Pop-Out for Visualizations, Printing, Export Data, QR Codes, Excel Add-In, Widgets, R Visuals Integration, Improved Image Support, and much, much more. Come and check out all of the latest capabilities of Power BI and be amazed!

1. What’s New in Power BI
Unlock your data and get insights!

2. Speaker Background
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Dan English
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@denglishbi
• Microsoft Data Platform MVP
• Microsoft BI User Group MN
Leadership Team Member
• Chapter Leader for PASS BA VC
• Published Author / Contributing Editor

3. - Power BI v2 Overview
- Power BI Service
- Power BI Desktop
- Power BI for Mobile
- Questions
Agenda
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4. Audience Poll
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• How many IT Professionals?
• How many Business/Information Workers?
• How many are using Power BI features in Excel?
• How many are using Office 2016?
• How many have used Power BI Desktop?
• How Many are using the Power BI Service?

5. Gartner Magic Quadrant
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http://www.fredrikhedenstrom.com/2016/02/16/gartners-bi-magic-quadrant-visualized-in-power-bi/
Why Microsoft for your business
intelligence and analytics platforms?
Industry analysts have taken note of
our efforts and we are excited to
share Gartner has positioned
Microsoft as a Leader, for the ninth
consecutive year, in the Magic
Quadrant for Business
Intelligence and Analytics
Platforms. For the first time,
Microsoft is placed furthest in vision
within the Leaders quadrant.
https://info.microsoft.com/CO-PowerBI-CNTNT-FY16-05Feb-
PowerBIGartnerMQ_Registration.html?wt.mc_id=US_CE_BI_OO_MS_NONE

6. What Happened Since Last June?
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7. Power BI v2 Overview
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8. Power BI Service
• No more Excel, SharePoint, or
Office 365 dependencies
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Hybrid Solution
• on-premise or cloud data sources
• HTML5 Reports and Dashboards
• Mobile app support too
• Real-time and streaming data
source support & APIs
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9. What’s New Power BI Service
• Ability to add custom URLs to Tiles
• New report canvas (with Q&A too)
• Visualizations, Filters, and Fields panes
• Organizational Content Packs
• Lots of new 3rd Party Content Packs
• New Samples
• Drill support for Power BI Reports
• Choose which dashboard to pin items to or create a new one
• Add shapes, textbox, widgets
• Full screen, fit to screen, in-focus mode (pop-out)
• See last refresh for tiles, ability to refresh as well
• Duplicate report page or dashboard
• Quick Insights
• Power BI Integration with Cortana
• Change visual interactions
• Pin Live Report Pages to Dashboard
• Export Tile and Report Data
• Generate QR Codes
• Print Dashboards
• Publish to Web and ability to Share Outside Organization
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https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/powerbi-service-
whats-new/

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Custom Visuals
• Extend Power BI with more high
quality data visualizations developed
by Microsoft and the Community
• Build visuals with D3, WebGL,
Canvas, or SVG
• Power BI Developer Center
• https://powerbi.microsoft.com/de
velopers
• Project available on GitHub
• https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerB
I-visuals
• Playground area to test visuals
• http://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-
visuals/playground/index.html

12. Demo – Power BI Service
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Power BI Desktop
• Download application (Free)
• Decoupled from Excel
• Training Resources
• Videos
• Tutorials
• Forums
• Power BI Blog
• Community
• Provides
• Query (Power Query)
• Model (Power Pivot)
• Report (Power View)
• Data sources galore
• Including Live Connections
• Relationships
• Cross filter (bidirectional)

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Data Sources Galore!

15. What’s New Power BI Desktop
• New Data View & Relationships views
• Publish Directly to PowerBI.com
• Import Excel Power BI artifacts – Data Model, Power Queries, Reports
• Add shapes, textbox, images, and background image
• Drill Up/Down on charts
• Visualizations, Fields panes (includes Search)
• Add Custom Visuals
• Modeling within Fields pane (easy rename)
• Enable Preview Features
• Lots of Formatting options
• Visual Interactions
• Play Axis for Scatter Chart
• Horizontal Slicers
• Control Z-Order
• Duplicate Pages
• Improved Tooltips
• Format Painter
• R Integration
• Create Measures in DirectQuery mode
• Add borders to visuals
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https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-
latest-update/

16. Demo – Power BI Desktop
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Power BI for Mobile
• Download for iOS, Android,
Windows
• iPad and iPhone
• Windows
• Android Phone
• HTML5
• Ability to
• add annotations
• share insights
• favorites
• Data Alerts (iPhone)
• QR Scanner

18. What’s New Power BI Mobile
• Support for Android Phone
• Windows 10 Universal App
• Support for group workspaces
• New Navigation
• Data Alerts (iPhone)
• Notifications
• iPhone – landscape mode for dashboards
• Data Labels in charts
• QR code scanner
• SQL 2016 SSRS and Mobile Report support (iPhone and iPad)
• R tile and web widget support
• Access cached data (no longer expires)
• Offline indicators
• Real-time data support
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https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/powerbi-mobile-
whats-new-in-the-mobile-apps/

19. Demo – Power BI Mobile
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Resources
• Power BI site
• http://powerbi.com
• Power BI Team Blog
• http://powerbi.com/blog
• Power BI YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi/playlists
• edX Course – Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI
• https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-
power-bi-microsoft-dat207x-0
• Power BI Twitter
• @mspowerbi
• #PowerBI

21. Questions
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22. Thank You!
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