MODULE 6- ASSIGNMENT -POWER BI

Submitted By: Jaywardhan Singh Rajawat

PGDM NO.: 39
Q1 what is Power? What are components of Power BI? Explain Each in Details.
Answer 1- Power BI is a cloud-based data analysis, which can be used for reporting and data analysis from
wide range of data source. Power BI is simple and user friendly enough that business analysts and power
users can work with it and get benefits of it. On the other hand, Power BI is powerful and mature enough
that can be used in enterprise systems by BI developers for complex data mash-up and modelling scenarios.

Power BI made of 6 main components, these components released in the market separately, and they can be
used even individually. Components of Power BI are:

 Power Query: Data mash up and transformation tool.

 Power Pivot: In-memory tabular data modelling tool
 Power View: Data visualization tool
 Power Map: 3D Geo-spatial data visualization tool
 Power Q&A: Natural language question and answering engine.
 Power BI Desktop: A powerful companion development tool for Power BI
There are many other parts for Power BI as well, such as;

 PowerBI.com Website; which Power BI data analysis can be shared through this website and
hosted there as cloud service
 Power BI Mobile Apps; Power BI supported in Android, Apple, and Windows Phones.

There will be detailed description for all components are as follow:

1. Power Query
Power Query is data transformation and mash up engine. Power Query can be downloaded as an add-in for
Excel or be used as part of Power BI Desktop. With Power Query you can extract data from many different
data sources. You can read data from databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, and many other
databases. You can fetch data from files such as CSV, Text, and Excel. You can even loop through a folder.
You can use Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, and Azure…. as source. You can connect to Facebook as source
and many other applications. You can use online search or use a web address as the source to fetch the data
from that web page. Power Query gives you a graphical user interface to transform data as you need, adding
columns, changing types, transformations for date and time, text, and many other operations are available.
Power Query can load the result set into Excel or into Power Pivot model.

2. Power Pivot

Power Pivot is data modelling engine which works on x-Velocity in-Memory based tabular engine. The In-
Memory engine gives Power Pivot super-fast response time and the modelling engine would provide you a
great place to build your star schema, calculated measures and columns, build relationships through entities
and so on. Power Pivot uses Data Analysis expression language (DAX) for building measures and calculated
columns. DAX is a powerful functional language, and there are heaps of functions for that in the library.

3. Power View
The main data visualization component of Power BI is Power View. Power View is an interactive data
visualization that can connect to data sources and fetch the metadata to be used for data analysis. Power
View has many charts for visualization in its list. Power View gives your ability to filter data for each data
visualization element or for the entire report. You can use slicers for better slicing and dicing the data.
Power View reports are interactive, user can highlight part of the data and different elements in Power View
talk with each other.

4. Power Map

Power Map is for visualizing Geo-spatial information in 3D mode. When visualization renders in 3D mode
it will gives you another dimension in the visualization. You can visualize a measure as height of a column
in 3D, and another measure as heatmap view. You can highlight data based on the Geo-graphical location
such as country, city, state, and street address. Power Map works with Bing maps to get best visualization
based on Geo-graphical either latitude and longitude or country, state, city, and street address information.
Power Map is an add-in for Excel 2013, and embedded in Excel 2016.

5. Power BI Desktop

Power BI Desktop is the newest component in Power BI suit. Power BI Desktop is a holistic development
tool for Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View. With Power BI Desktop you will have everything
under a same solution, and it is easier to develop BI and data analysis experience with that. Power BI
Desktop updates frequently and regularly. This product has been in preview mode for a period of time with
name of Power BI Designer.

6. Power BI Mobile Apps

There are mobile apps for three main mobile OS providers: Android, Apple, and Windows Phone. These
apps give you an interactive view of dashboards and reports in the Power BI site, you can share them even
from mobile app. You can highlight part of the report, write a note on it and share it to others.

Q2 Explain Basic Building blocks of Power BI?

Answer 2- For a Power BI business user, the five building blocks

are: visualizations, dashboards, reports, apps, and  datasets. These are sometimes referred to as Power
BI content. 

1. A visualization (or visual), is a type of chart built by Power BI designers. The visuals display the
data from reports and datasets. Typically, designers build the visuals in Power BI Desktop.

2. A dataset is a container of data. For example, it might be an Excel file from the World Health
Organization. It could also be a company-owned database of customers or it might be a Salesforce
file. Datasets are managed by designers.

3. A dashboard is a single screen with interactive visuals, text, and graphics. A dashboard collects your
most important metrics, on one screen, to tell a story or answer a question. The dashboard content
comes from one or more reports and one or more datasets.

4. A report is one or more pages of interactive visuals, text, and graphics that together make up a single
report. Power BI bases a report on a single dataset. Often, the designer organizes report pages to
address a central area of interest or answer a single question.
 5. An app is a way for designers to bundle and share related dashboards and reports together. Business
users receive some apps automatically but can go search for other apps created by colleagues or by
the community. For example, out-of-the-box apps are available for external services you may already
use, like Google Analytics and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Q3 why we use Gateway?

Answer 3-
Power BI Gateway is a middleware that takes care of pushing from source to Power BI service.

Gateway creates the connection between Power BI cloud-based data analysis technology and the data source
located on-premises. Gateway is an application that can be installed on any servers in the local domain.
Gateway is responsible for creating the connection and passing data through.

You don’t need a gateway in all scenarios. Only if the data source is located on-premises, you need a
gateway. For online or cloud-based data sources, no gateway is required. For example; if you are getting
data from CRM Online, you don’t need a gateway. However, if you are getting data from SQL Server
database located on your local domain server, then you need a gateway. For Azure SQL DB you don’t need
a gateway. However, a SQL Server database located on Azure Virtual Machine is considered as on-premises
and needs gateway.

There are five main steps for using a gateway.

1. Download and install the gateway on a local computer.

2. Configure the gateway based on your firewall and other network requirements.
3. Add gateway admins who can also manage and administer other network requirements.
4. Use the gateway to refresh an on-premises data source.
5. Troubleshoot the gateway in case of errors.

Uses of gateway

The number of users who consume a report that uses the gateway is an important metric in your decision
about where to install the gateway. Here are some questions to consider:

 Do users use these reports at different times of the day?

 What types of connections do they use (Direct Query or Import)?
 Do all users use the same report?

If all the users access a given report at the same time each day, make sure that you install the gateway on a
machine that's capable of handling all those requests.

A constraint in Power BI allows only one gateway per report. Even if a report is based on multiple data
sources, all such data sources must go through a single gateway. If a dashboard is based on multiple reports,
you can use a dedicated gateway for each contributing report. In this way, you distribute the gateway load
among the multiple reports that contribute to the single dashboard.

Q4 Write a short note on Power BI Service?

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to help you create,
share, and consume business insights in the way that serves you and your business most effectively. The
Microsoft Power BI service (app.powerbi.com), sometimes referred to as Power BI online, is the SaaS
(Software as a Service) part of Power BI. In the Power BI service, dashboards help you keep a finger on the
pulse of your business. Dashboards display tiles, which you can select to open reports for exploring further.
Dashboards and reports connect to datasets that bring all of the relevant data together in one place.

Creating reports in the service

In a typical Power BI workflow, you begin by building a report in Power BI Desktop, then publishing it to
the Power BI service.

This workflow is common, but you can also create Power BI reports right in the Power BI service. Do you
have a subscription to a SaaS (software as a service) application like Salesforce? Power BI has apps that
automatically create dashboards and reports from your online data. Get a head start by connecting to
Salesforce or check out the other SaaS apps you can connect to. If you're part of an organization, someone in
your organization may have published apps and distributed them to you.

Q5 Write a short note on Power BI Mobile?

Answer

Mobile users can view any Power BI report page in landscape orientation. However, report authors can
create an additional view that is optimized for mobile devices and displays in portrait orientation. This
design option, which is available in both Power BI Desktop and in the Power BI service, enables authors to
select and rearrange just those visuals that make sense for mobile users on the go.

Power BI provides a number of features to help you create mobile-optimized versions of your reports:

 A mobile layout view where you can create your mobile-optimized report by dragging and dropping
visuals onto a phone emulator canvas.
 Visuals and slicers that can be optimized for use on small, mobile screens.

These capabilities make it possible to design and build attractive, interactive mobile-optimized reports.

Create a mobile-optimized portrait version of a report page

Prerequisite: The first step is to design and create the report in the regular web view. After you've created the
report, you can optimize it for phones and tablets.

To create the mobile-optimized view, open the report in either Power BI Desktop or in the Power BI service.
When the report is open, go the mobile layout view:

 In Power BI Desktop, select the View ribbon and choose Mobile layout.

 In the Power BI service, choose Edit report > Mobile Layout. If the Edit option is not visible, look
under More options (...).

You see a scrollable canvas shaped like a phone, and a Visualizations pane that lists all of the visuals that
are on the original report page.

 Each visual in the Visualizations pane appears with its name for easy identification.
 Each visual also has a visibility indicator. The visibility indicator of a visual changes depending on
the visibility status of the visual in the current state of the web report view. The visibility indicator is
useful when working with bookmarks.