Sydney BI Social Group (SYBIS) - Presentation about Power BI: exciting new BI features in Excel 2013 and 365

1. POWER BI
New BI feature in EXCEL 2013/365
- Marylyn Pandit & Hamid Jallis

2. AGENDA
• What’s new in Excel 2013/365?
• What is Power BI
• Features of Power BI
• Components of Power BI
• Architecture
• Limitations of Excel

3. WHAT’S NEW IN EXCEL 2013/365
• Powerful Business Intelligence.
• Is light weight and secure
• Apps For Excel
• Cloud Capabilities (Skydrive)
• Quick to setup. Add – Ins available
• No size limitations.

4. ANNOUNCING POWER BI IN EXCEL
Power
BI
Power
Pivot
Power
View
Power
Query
Power
Map
Discover and connect to external data
Explore, analyse and visualise data
Create dashboard in minutes

5. WHO CAN USE POWER BI??
ANYONE CAN USE IT …
• SMBs or large companies
• Data Analysts
• Decision makers
• BI Developers
• Even my boss!

6. FEATURES OF POWER BI
• In-built Data Model
• Ability to create / detect relationships
• Share datasets securely
• Manage data connections
• Data in the reports is refreshable
• New Timeline control

7. COMPONENTS OF POWER BI
POWER QUERY
• Formerly known as “Data Explorer”
• Import and combine data from multiple/
external datasets, mash it with internal
data, etc.
• Aggregate, drill down, …
• Merge, expand, append and refresh
• Isolation of data sources

8. POWER QUERY

9. COMPONENTS OF POWER BI
POWER VIEW
• Relational & cross-filtered visualizations and
reports
• Interactive dashboards like widgets
• Consumes data model
• Can also be hooked up to external data models

10. POWER VIEW

11. COMPONENTS OF POWER BI
• Builds pivot table/charts from billions of records
• Independent pivot charts
• Create dashboards by linking table and charts
• Separate calculation area for KPIs and calculated
fields
• Create KPIs based on calculated fields
POWER PIVOT

12. POWER PIVOT

13. COMPONENTS OF POWER BI
• Formerly known as “Geo-Flow”
• View data geographically in 3D interactive map
• Best suited for demographic data.
• Can drill down up to Longitude and Latitude
POWER MAP

14. POWER MAP

15. Architecture - How does Power BI do it all?
• xVelocity Engine ( next generation of Vertipaq)
• In memory analytics
• Columnar storage
• Compression technology

16. HOW CAN YOU GET POWER BI
Available in 2 options:
• Office 365 Pro Plus
• Office 2013 Professional Plus

17. LIMITATIONS OF POWER BI
• Limited backward compatibility for Excel 2010
• 250 megabytes (MB) per file upload in Excel Web App in
Office 365
• Student edition does not have these powerful features

18. DEMO

19. Q&A
THANK YOU

20. Sydney BI Social (SYBIS) Group
https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4900023
http://www.meetup.com/SYBISGROUP/