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Presentation Agenda Speaker Bios / Sparkhound Overview Microsoft BI Reporting Tools Power BI / DataZen Microsoft’s BI Roadmap Demo

3 Speaker BIOs Brennan Bice Director of Business Development, Sparkhound 7 Years as a SQL DBA Project Management Professional Certified ITIL Certified Richard Salinas Director of Application Development and Enterprise Applications, Sparkhound

4 Who is Sparkhound? IT Solution Integrator, founded in 1998 Offices in Dallas, Houston, and Baton Rouge 200 Employees One of Kind Name Spark symbolizes an idea Hound comes from “bloodhound,” seeks solutions

5 MISSION To make a meaningful impact in our clients’ businesses by solving their business challenges through leadership and technology.

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7 Partners

8 Microsoft BI Tools

9 SQL Server Integration, Analysis, & Reporting Services Excel (Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View, Power Map) SharePoint 2013 Sites (Power View for SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Dashboards, PerformancePoint Services in SP 2013) Power BI DataZen

10 Power Pivot Introduced in Excel 2010 Pull in data sources and create relationships

11 Power Query Merge and shape data sources

12 Power View Interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience

13 Power Map 3D Visualization Geographic Tool

14 Power BI

15 Microsoft Power BI History 2010: Excel Power Pivot 2013: Excel 2013 (Power Pivot, View, Query, Map) 2014: SharePoint Online in O : Stand Alone Service in PowerBI.com

16 What is Power BI Now? Microsoft hosted business intelligence service ( Combination of Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map, Power Query Natural Language Query Drag and drop to create rich visualizations Use a wide range of data sources an connections Data auto refresh Publish and share with whoever you want Access BI Reports and Dashboards from anywhere

17 What is Power BI? Power BI Mobile Windows iOS Android

18 What is Power BI? Power BI Desktop Desktop client application Work offline Save work locally Publish to PowerBI.com

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20 Data Sources

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23 Features & Pricing Feature Power BI Free Power BI Pro $9.99 user / month Data Capacity Limit1 GB / User10 GB / User Create, View, Share, Author, Query, Mobile, Import, Connectors Data Refresh Daily 10K rows/hr Hourly 1M rows/hr Live Data Sources On-prem Data Sources Collaboration

24 DataZen

25 What is DataZen? Rapid BI development Publish to any device Intuitive user experience Attractive visualizations Always available / Live Updates AD Integration Security, Control, Data Encryption

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29 Collaboration

30 Architecture

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32 DataZen Cost Free!!! Free Publisher and View Apps from Windows Store or Website Free DataZen Server with SQL Enterprise License and Software Assurance

33 Microsoft BI Roadmap

34 Gartner BI & Analytics

35 Forrester 2015 BI Evaluation

36 Microsoft BI Roadmap Continue to invest in business intelligence Move DataZen into on-premises Microsoft platform Continue to roll in DataZen visualizations, KPI features, collaboration into PowerBi.com Add new data sources and connectors September 2015 Update - 44 New Features Report Authoring Data Modeling Data Connectivity

37 Contact Information Brennan Bice Director of Business Development, Sparkhound Richard Salinas Director of Application Development and Enterprise Applications, Sparkhound

38 References Power BI Roadmap.aspx?Page=2 Roadmap.aspx?Page=2 desktop-september- update.aspx?WT.mc_id=PowerBI_NL_Sept&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolv6rIeu%2F hmjTEU5z17e0pW6G3hYkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcNrNbHPRw8FHZNpywVWM8TI LdUXt9JsLgzhAGk%3D desktop-september- update.aspx?WT.mc_id=PowerBI_NL_Sept&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolv6rIeu%2F hmjTEU5z17e0pW6G3hYkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcNrNbHPRw8FHZNpywVWM8TI LdUXt9JsLgzhAGk%3D DataZen - Gartner - Forester -

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