Covers the new version of Power BI, history on what the Microsoft offering were before this was released, features, pitfalls and transition considerations

1. The Brave New World of
Power BI and Hybrid Cloud
Bhavik.Merchant@nec.com.au
27th August 2015

2. • Intro
• Session Goals
• Short History Lesson
• Overview of Power BI Components + Demos
• Transitioning and Future Functionality
• Pitfalls & Other Info
• Q&A
Agenda

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• Delivery Manager: Analytics, Collaboration & Content at NEC
• Certified End-to-End Microsoft BI practitioner
• Trainer
• Microsoft PTSP
• Co-organiser of Perth Modern Excel & Power BI User Group
Speaker Introduction

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• Understand landscape prior to Power BI 2.0
• See where Office 365 and Azure fit it
• Learn how to leverage on-premises assets
• Explore functionality and learn deployment process
• Understand how to transition
• Know what to watch out for
Session Goals

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A Walk Down Memory Lane…
Self-Service (2010) Team Enterprise Cloud (2014)
Power View
Power Query
Power Map
PowerPivot for Excel 2010 (Add-in)
PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010
(SQL 2008 R2)
SSAS Tabular (SQL 2012)
PowerPivot in Excel 2013
& SharePoint 2013
Power BI for
Office 365
Q&A

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Power BI Represents Further Shifting in Paradigm
Everyone
Analyst to end user
IT to end user
2nd wave
Self-service BI
1st wave
Technical BI
3rd wave
End user BI

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• Free, thick client
• “Power” components integrated in standalone designer
• Power Query
• Power Pivot
• Power View (v3?)
• Use it to source, cleanse, mashup, enrich, visualise, publish
• DEMO: Power BI Desktop Intro
Power BI 2.0 – Power BI Desktop

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• Our Yoga Studio
• Concerned wife
needs
performance
numbers
End-to-End Demo Scenario
hot yoga r edefi ned...
I need insights… FAST!
Data required for Analysis
- Excel
- Azure
- Web

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• a.k.a “Get Data” in Power BI Desktop
• Fetch data from a HUGE variety of sources
• Transform with point and click, or advanced (M script)
• DEMO: Getting the data in
Power Query

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• a.k.a “Modeling” in Power BI Desktop
• In-memory, columnar database engine
• Add calculated columns, calculated measures
• Relate disparate data sets
• DEMO: Connecting up and adding value
Power Pivot

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• a.k.a “Report” in Power BI Desktop
• MUCH improved from Excel/SharePoint/Office 365
• Easier controls, more formatting options, more visuals
• DEMO: Obligatory eye candy
Power View

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• Login via powerbi.com, or use App Launcher in Office 365
• Lets business users leverage published data
• Create independent cloud hosted reports
• “Dashboards” let us pin individual components, then drill
• Create Group Workspaces, share with others
• DEMO: Publishing to Power BI
Power BI Cloud Service

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• Ask questions in natural language
• Machine learning reads fields, data and applies semantics
• Then customise and pin result
• DEMO: Quick Insights
Q & A

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• Allows scheduled refresh (on-prem sources)
• Windows service on always on computer creates bridge
• Uses Azure Service Bus
• No firewall port opening
• Not required for online sources
• DEMO: Refresh from on-prem to cloud
Other Features – The Personal Gateway

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• Organisational
• Bundle a set of visuals, data etc and publish. Leverages Office 365 Groups
• Prebuilt
• Dynamics CRM, SQL Database Auditing, SalesForce, Google ang more…
Other Features – Content Packs

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• Windows, Android, iOS
• DEMO: Mobile Experience
Other Features – Native Mobile Apps

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• Install “Power BI SSAS Connector” on Tabular Server
• Similar to personal gateway
• Live connections
Other Features – Connect to SSAS On-Prem

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• Still getting much love
• Excel 2016 has all Power BI components natively integrated
• You can import Excel PowerPivot models into Power BI Desktop
• Model, data sheets, Power View work. Excel pivot table reports don’t.
• Nice improvements: non destructive editing, field search
• What will this mean for feature parity?
But, I LOVE Excel! Transitioning…

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Many Architectural Options… this is a subset!
On Premises
SharePoint
SSAS
Tabular
Structured
Data
External
(Web, Odata,
JSON etc)
PowerPivot/Power BI
Spreadsheets
Most sources can be
refreshed directly in
Power BI Cloud
(not shown)

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Free Pro ($12.70 user/month)
Data Volume 1GB Data per user 10GB Data per user
Refresh Daily, 10k rows/hr Hourly, 1M rows/hr
Live Source Interactive - Yes
Gateway Support - Yes
Office 365 Group share - Yes
Org. Content Packs - Yes
Security via AD Groups - Yes (coming)
Data Catalog use - Yes (redir. to old version)
Tiers and Pricing

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• Still no Power Map anywhere but Excel
• Cant create hierarchies or KPIs in Power BI Desktop.. yet
• Excel Import fails on dummy tables
• SQL Azure refresh can fail, but is workaround
• Gateways rely on ADFS – same user in Power BI and On-prem
• Only 1 Personal gateway at a time
• Power BI for Office 365 is around till 31 Dec. 2015
Pitfalls, Gaps, Other Info

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• Thanks for your valuable time!
• Thanks to NEC for pizza sponsorship
• Go TRY IT, and do come chat to me 
Wrapping Up and Question Time