Getting Started With Power BI: By: Dave Feldman @bostonmusicdave

Getting started with Power BI
By: Dave Feldman @bostonmusicdave

@bostonmusicdave
David Feldman https://www.linkedin.com/in/bostonmusicdave
bostonmusicdave@gmail.com
Business Intelligence Transformation
Custom
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1st Wave 2nd Wave 3rd Wave
Technical BI Self Service BI End User BI
IT to End User Analyst to End User Everyone

Technical
Custom BI
First wave of business intelligence driven by IT on behalf of the business
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OLAP Services, Analysis Service, Unified Dimensional Model, MDX

Analyst
Custom BI
Second wave of BI drive by analysts empowered to connect and mashup data
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Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft

PowerPivot PowerView Power Query
Tableau Spotfire Qlikview

End User BI
Custom
Third wave of BI empowers everyone with immediate value on SaaS data
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Technical BI Self Service BI End User BI

Powered by SaaS, Power BI Dashboards, Power BI Desktop
Basic
Custom Concepts
What’s a dataset?
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• A dataset is something that you import or connect to. Power BI let's you
connect to all sorts of datasets and bring all of it together in one place.
• ONE dataset... - can be used over and over. - can be used in many
different reports. - Visualizations from that one dataset can display on
many different dashboards.
Basic
Custom Concepts
What’s a report?
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• A Power BI report is one or more pages of visualizations (charts, graphs
and images). All of the visualizations in a report come from a single
dataset.
• ONE report... - can be associated with multiple dashboards (tiles pinned
from that one report can appear on multiple dashboards). - can be
created using data from one dataset. (the slight exception to this is that
Power BI Desktop can combine more than 1 dataset into a single report
and that report can be imported into Power BI)
Basic
Custom Concepts
What’s a dashboard?
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• A Power BI Dashboard is a fun and easy way to organize dashboard tiles
or widgets on a canvas. A dashboard can be created by you or can be
shared with you by a colleague.
• A tile is a snapshot of your data, pinned to the dashboard. A tile can be
created from a report, dataset, dashboard, from the Q&A box, Excel, and
from SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), text, a photo or even a video!
Immediate
Custom value for SaaS Users
Prebuilt content packs for many popular services or create and share your own
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Demos
Google Analytics
Bing
Google
Custom Analytics
Choose oath2 for authentication then select your account
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Bing
Custom
Choose a term to track
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Excel,
Custom CSV, Power BI Desktop files
Easily connect and refresh your data from the files you already have
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Import Refresh
Local Files ü
OneDrive ü ü
OneDrive for Business ü ü
SharePoint ü ü
Demo
Local Excel File with Power View Report
OneDrive Excel – make some updates
SharePoint Team Site Excel File
Connect
Custom to live real-time data in Azure
No waiting, no refresh
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• Live connections to Azure SQL Database, SQL Data Warehouse, and
Spark
• Live connections to On-Premises Analysis Services with legacy Analysis
Services Connector or Enterprise Gateway
Demo
Connect to Azure SQL Database
Adventure
Custom works demo
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Power
Custom BI Desktop
Easily build Datasets, manage relationships, reports, and dashboards
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• Free download
• Combines Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power View
into a task optimized standalone application
• Outputs reports or easily publishes to Power BI
Service
• Updated monthly
Demo
Connect to JSON feeds
Connect to excel data
Build Reports
Publish to Power BI Service
Attractions
Custom
https://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/attractions.json
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Dining
Custom
https://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/dining.json
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Wait
CustomTimes
Excel data from touringplans.com
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Custom
Custom Visualizations
Leverage community contributions or build your own
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Demo
Acquire and utilize a custom visualization from the gallery at
https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/
Licensing
Custom
When do I need to go Pro
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• Power BI is free
• Power BI Pro is $10/m per user
• Free version will allow you to:

• Connect and refresh files and database in the cloud
• Leverage or modify content packs for SaaS services
• Use the mobile apps
• Share read only dashboards or publish to the web
• Pro license is needed to:

• Consume on-prem data from Personal Gateway or Enterprise Gateway
• Create shared dashboards in an Office 365 Group
• Create an organizational Content Pack
Thank you
Coming up Next - Advanced Power BI
• Hybrid Data Access
• Personal Gateway (Power BI Professional)
• Enterprise Gateway (Power BI Professional)
• Reporting Services 2016
• Collaboration
• Office 365 Groups (Power BI Professional)
• Organizational Content Packs (Power BI Professional)
• Mobile Apps
• Share Dashboard
• Publish to web
• Analyze in Excel
• Cortana Integration
• Admin Stuff

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IT to End User Analyst to End User Everyone

OLAP Services, Analysis Service, Unified Dimensional Model, MDX

Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft

Tableau Spotfire Qlikview

Technical BI Self Service BI End User BI

• Free version will allow you to:

• Pro license is needed to:

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