Getting started with Power BI By: Dave Feldman @bostonmusicdave

David Feldman @bostonmusicdave https://www.linkedin.com/in/bostonmusicdave bostonmusicdave@gmail.com

1st Wave Technical BI 2nd Wave Self Service BI 3rd Wave End User BI Business Intelligence Transformation 1st Wave Technical BI 2nd Wave Self Service BI 3rd Wave End User BI IT to End User Analyst to End User Everyone

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

Analyst BI Microsoft PowerPivot Microsoft PowerView Second wave of BI drive by analysts empowered to connect and mashup data Microsoft PowerPivot Microsoft PowerView Microsoft Power Query Tableau Spotfire Qlikview

Powered by SaaS, Power BI Dashboards, Power BI Desktop End User BI Third wave of BI empowers everyone with immediate value on SaaS data e Technical BI Self Service BI End User BI Powered by SaaS, Power BI Dashboards, Power BI Desktop

Basic Concepts What’s a dataset? 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 Concepts What’s a report? 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 Concepts What’s a dashboard? 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 value for SaaS Users Prebuilt content packs for many popular services or create and share your own

Demos Google Analytics Bing

Google Analytics Choose oath2 for authentication then select your account

Bing Choose a term to track

Excel, CSV, Power BI Desktop files Easily connect and refresh your data from the files you already have Automatic import of data models and reports from Excel or Power BI Desktop Share and collaborate on your all your file based data using the Power BI Service Import Refresh Local Files ü OneDrive OneDrive for Business SharePoint

Demo Local Excel File with Power View Report OneDrive Excel – make some updates SharePoint Team Site Excel File

Connect to live real-time data in Azure No waiting, no refresh 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

Connect to Azure SQL Database Demo Connect to Azure SQL Database

Adventure works demo

Power BI Desktop Free download Easily build Datasets, manage relationships, reports, and dashboards 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 https://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/attractions.json

Dining https://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/dining.json

Wait Times Excel data from touringplans.com

Custom Visualizations Leverage community contributions or build your own

Demo Acquire and utilize a custom visualization from the gallery at https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/

Licensing Power BI is free Power BI Pro is $10/m per user When do I need to go Pro 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