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    Power BI Is Awesome! (SQLSatOregon2015)

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    Power BI is a new Microsoft business intelligence product aimed at business users. It allows users to create rich interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations with minimal clicks. Power BI Desktop is a standalone app for authoring reports that can then be deployed to the Power BI service. Power BI can connect to both on-premises and online data sources. The presentation demonstrates Power BI Desktop and the PowerBI.com service, and discusses the product's history and future directions.

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    Power BI is a new Microsoft business intelligence product aimed at business users. It allows users to create rich interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations with minimal clicks. Power BI Desktop is a standalone app for authoring reports that can then be deployed to the Power BI service. Power BI can connect to both on-premises and online data sources. The presentation demonstrates Power BI Desktop and the PowerBI.com service, and discusses the product's history and future directions.

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    Power BI is a new Microsoft business intelligence product aimed at business users. It allows users to create rich interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations with minimal clicks. Power BI Desktop is a standalone app for authoring reports that can then be deployed to the Power BI service. Power BI can connect to both on-premises and online data sources. The presentation demonstrates Power BI Desktop and the PowerBI.com service, and discusses the product's history and future directions.

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    Power BI is Awesome!

    Steve Wake
    BI Developer, Chipotle Mexican Grill
    President, Denver SQL Server User Group
    Please Support Our Sponsors
    SQL Saturday is made possible with the generous support of these sponsors.
    You can support them by opting-in and visiting them in the sponsor area.
    What is Power BI v2?
     New Microsoft Business Intelligence product line
     Aimed at business power users and end-users
     Rich interactive reports, dashboards, charts, graphs, and
    maps
     Minimize clicks to complete tasks
     Open source/custom visualizations (D3, HTML5, and
    CSS3)
     Remove Office 365 & SharePoint Online Requirements
    (Power BI v1)
    History of Power BI
     PowerPivot – Excel add-in using xVelocity (Vertipaq)
    columnar engine
     SQL Server 2012 SSAS Tabular Model
     Microsoft BI Semantic Model (BISM)
     PowerView
     Re-branding to Power BI (notice the space)
     SharePoint and Office 365 integration (Q&A, Power Query,
    and Power Map)
     Power BI v2 Preview (December 2014)
     Power BI v2 Service & Desktop GA (July 2015)
    What is Power BI Desktop?
    According to Microsoft:

    Power BI Desktop puts visual analytics at your fingertips


    with intuitive report authoring. Drag-and-drop to place
    content exactly where you want it on the flexible and fluid
    canvas. Quickly discover patterns as you explore a single
    unified view of linked, interactive visualizations.

    Source: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop
    What is Power BI Desktop?
     Standalone design/development/rendering app with
    deployment to Power BI Service
     Currently integrates:
    • Power Query
    • Power Pivot
    • Power View
    * Not all features of each yet, but updates each month, closing the
    gap
     New Power BI Desktop file extension .pbix
    What is Power BI v2?
     PowerBI.com & Power BI Desktop
     Access on-prem sources:
    SQL Oracle Teradata
    MySQL PostgreSQL Sybase
    Analytics Platform Service (APS, includes PDW)
    IBM DB2 HDFS And more!
     Online data sources – Azure
     Built-in connectors for SaaS:
    Salesforce Google Analytics GitHub
    Zendesk SAP And more!
    Demo
     Power BI Desktop
     PowerBI.com
    Pricing

    Source: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing
    Future
     Cross Platform Support (iOS & Android)
     Cross Browser Support (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, etc.)
     Active Directory Security Integration
     Separation from v1 tools in Excel 2016
     Pyramid Analytics Integration (onsite solution)
     SQL Server 2016?
     Integrate Power Map?
     More SaaS connectors? (at least 1 per week so far)
     Integration with SharePoint?
    Questions?
     Action List
     Go to http://powerbi.com
     Register for an account using your work email address
     Download Power BI Desktop
     Create amazing insights using your data!

     Contact Details
    • swake@chipotle.com
    • @stevewake on Twitter
     LinkedIn, Google+
     Blog http://wakebi.com
    Thank You
    This FREE SQL Saturday is brought to you courtesy of these sponsors,
    speakers and volunteers who staff this event

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