Introduction to Microsoft's Power BI platform including Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View and Power Map http://www.socialsupplychains.com/self-service-business-intelligence-is-becoming-reality-intro-to-power-bi/

1. Microsoft Power BI
Introduction to Microsoft’s Self-Service BI Platform
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2. Self-Service BI
Conventional BI
Focuses on internal business
data
Highly structured, well-defined
data model
Designed by BI professionals
Support for large data sets
Not usually real-time data
High level of change control
Self-Service BI
Often focuses on mashups
of internal and external data
Ad-hoc adaptive data
models
Designed by analysts or BI
professionals
Support for small to
medium-sized data sets
Sometimes real-time data
Little change control

3. Microsoft Self-
Serve BI
Architecture
SQL Server
Azure SQL
Database
Power Query
Power Pivot
Power View /
Power Map
Power BI for
Office 365
Data
Storage
Platform
Excel Add-Ins
Cloud Collaboration
Azure Machine
Learning

4. Excel Power
Add-ins
Power Query Power Pivot Power View
• Loads data from a
variety of data
sources
• Join across data
sources to create
mashups
• Perform basic data
transformations
• Output tabular data
sources into Excel
Data Model or
Worksheets
• In-memory analytics
engine (xVelocity)
• Define relationships
across tabular data
sources
• Query data using
DAX
• Visualize data with
tables or charts
• Create interactive
dashboards
• Some overlap with
conventional Excel
dataviz tools
• Collaborate on
dashboards using
Office 365

5. How to Get
Power BI for
Excel
Excel 2013 Standalone License ($99 on Amazon)
Office 2013 Professional Plus License (Enterprise Agreement)
Power BI for Office 365 ($52 per month)

6. Demo Time
A Quick walk-through of Power
Query, Power Pivot, and Power
View