“5 Minutes to WOW”, but HOW? Aaron Bator, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Samuel Lester, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer

Speaker Intro Aaron Bator Sam Lester @Aaron_Bator Microsoft SharePoint Field Engineer Spent many years travelling to customer sites training on SharePoint features Spends a lot of time now trying to get customers to use SharePoint and Business Intelligence features Sam Lester Microsoft SQL Server / BI Premier Field Engineer​ Spent 11 years in the SQL Server Product Group (SSMS, Setup, Profiler, Migration, UCP, DAC)​ Spends a lot of time helping customers gain insight from their mountains of data @Aaron_Bator @SQLSamLester 2 | |

AGENDA Power BI: Desktop? Online? Free? Pay? What does “5 Minutes to Wow” mean? How do I make the “Wow”? How to make your own demo? What’s the future of Power BI? What about SSRS? 3 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 | Destination Check: Are you in the correct session?

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What do we mean by “Power BI”? Power BI: Desktop? Online? Free? Pay? www.PowerBI.com 5 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

What do we mean by “Power BI”? Power BI: Desktop? Online? Free? Pay? Power BI Desktop: Free Power BI: Subscription Model 6 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Office 365 and Power BI If you have Office 365 you may already have Power BI as part of your subscription 7 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Some things to be aware of Power BI Desktop Updates Monthly Custom Visuals have to be downloaded and installed 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions of Power BI Desktop Publishing data to the cloud on the Power BI Service – do you want that? 8 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Some things to be aware of Import vs. Direct Query PBIX file contains all the data and the visualizations 9 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Custom Visuals? Is that the Wow? We’re getting there: Power BI Desktop has visuals built in, but new ones are released often 10 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

What does “5 Minutes to Wow” mean? Self-service reporting Take your existing data and create a dashboard Aggregation/Evolution of “Power” tools in Excel Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query 11 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

What does “5 Minutes to Wow” mean? Power BI delivers custom data visualization to business teams Bringing the power of data visualization to business users Powerful democratized data “Power BI and custom visualizations fuel our self-service BI culture” 12 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

How do I make the “Wow”? Ingredients Power BI Desktop Data Sources Does everything Start or End in Excel? SQL Server SharePoint Lists Web Pages Access Question(s) you want to answer 13 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Personas are key – Who is your audience? Analysts have a different view than Viewers Slicers/Navigators may be a great choice for an analyst (Power BI Desktop) Viewers may want all the navigation done already (Power BI Online) 14 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

How to make your own demo? Start small Different personas want different views Slicers Maps Many small dashboard elements or Many pages in one Power BI Desktop File 15 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Enough talking, how about a demo? 16 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

What’s the future of Power BI? Monthly Updates Active communities New Visualizations Power BI User Groups vs. SQL PASS 17 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

What about SSRS? SSRS 2016 is a completely re-done product Tabular Reports Mobile Reports (formerly Data Zen) Dashboards Storage for Power BI Desktop Reports 18 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Later today Power BI Desktop “On Prem” 19 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

Questions? 20 | 11/22/201811/22/2018 |

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