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2. GET THE POWER 2 Intro To Power BI

3. Mark Jensen, Director of Product Management, InterDyn BMI Started w/GPA for DOS Tech Support at Great Plains Software Dynamics GP experience since V0.5 (Support, Training, Product Mgmt) Software Product Management/Marketing for past 20 years Fargo for 27 years; now based in Minneapolis INTRODUCTIONS 3

4. Active Clients 21 U.S. Locations 160+ Team Members and growing! 30 Years in Business · Since 1985 2000+ Active Clients GOLD Certified Dynamics ERP & CRM A QUICK LOOK AT INTERDYN BMI

5. 5 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug SESSION OBJECTIVES Improve your understanding of: How Power BI can help you Pricing/Packaging Learn how to: Connect datasets Create visualizations 5

6. 6 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug WHAT? 6 What is Power BI?BenefitsPricing/Packaging

7. 7 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug WHAT IS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE? “Business intelligence is essentially timely, accurate, high-value, and actionable business insights, and the work processes and technologies used to obtain them.” BI for Dummies, Swain Scheps Timely Accurate High-value Actionable

8. 8 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug WHAT IS MICROSOFT POWER BI? Suite of business analytics tools Focus on what matters Accessible from Web, Desktop, Mobile Works with ERP to web analytics apps Office 365 users to share with colleagues 8

9. DIFFERENTIATING FEATURES 9 Data access, mashups, and transformation in Power BI Desktop Pre-built dashboards and reports for popular SaaS solutions Intuitive data exploration using natural language query Secure, live connection to your data sources, on-premises and in the cloud Real-time dashboard updates

10. 10 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug Data sources include Microsoft apps & SaaS e.g. Dynamics, Office 365, Visual Studio Online, System Center, … 3 rd party apps & SaaS e.g. Salesforce, Marketo, Zendesk, Adobe, Quickbooks, Custom Microsoft databases & data services e.g. SQL Server Stream Analytics, SQL Data Warehouse, Excel, HDI, … 3 rd party databases and data services e.g. Oracle, Teradata, DB2, PostgresSQL, Hadoop, MySQL CONNECTS TO THE DATA THAT MATTERS

11. 11 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug POWER BI: FREEMIUM PRICING Not a trial Not “adware” or “nagware” Share reports and dashboards Feature Limitations: 1 GB/User Data capacity limit 1 a day content refresh 10K rows/hour of streaming data FREE POWER BI 11 POWER BI PRO $9.99 / user / month Premium Features: 10 GB/User Data capacity limit Schedule content refresh 1M rows/hour of streaming data Consume live, interactive data sources Create and Publish Organizational Content Packs For details, visit: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/; Every user consuming Power BI Pro content must also have a Power BI Pro Licensehttps://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

12. 12 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug POWER BI BENEFITS 12

13. 13 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug WHAT? 13 What is Power BI?BenefitsPricing/Packaging

14. 14 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug DEMO 14 ConnectingCreatingCollaborating

15. 15 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug CONSIDERATIONS Security Customer Data? Access Rights Data Management 15

16. 16 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug MARKET LEADERSHIP RECOGNIZED BY ANALYSTS “Microsoft Power BI leads the Agile BI pack.” – ForresterForrester “BI leaders can now consider Power BI ready for broad deployment without waiting for a change in corporate policy for Office.” – GartnerGartner “Microsoft’s new, partner- friendly approach to Power BI expands the Microsoft ecosystem, giving BI users improved functionality and options for mobile and prebuilt solutions.” – GartnerGartner 16 Forrester Wave: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2015 Gartner: New Microsoft Power BI Is an Enhanced Offering at a Compelling License Price

17. 17 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug WHAT IS MICROSOFT POWER BI? Suite of business analytics tools Focus on what matters Accessible from Web, Desktop, Mobile Works with ERP to web analytics apps Office 365 users to share with colleagues 17

18. 18 www.pbiug.org | @pbiug QUESTIONS? mark.jensen@interdynbmi.com Direct: 651-746-1677 @markdjensen www.interdynbmi.com Thank you for attending! 18

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