Reuben Pearse Wednesday 29 th October 2014 Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Implementing self-service BI

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Overview Introduction Changes in the Microsoft BI Landscape The Components of Power BI The Power BI workflow Power BI demonstrations Corporate BI Costs and Licencing What’s coming up? – technologies and features to watch out for Resources Contact Details Q & A

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Introduction

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Reuben Pearse Using SQL Server for 16 years Software development Full SDLC.NET development LAMP stack BI and Reporting Systems Consultant Head of Systems Development at Ecorys Why am I doing this talk?

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas About Ecorys Leading public policy research organisation Founded in 1981 Over 150 staff across five UK offices Extensive track record of evaluations and technical assistance and grant management for government, NGOs, charities and voluntary sector clients. We’re are joint partners with the British Council as the UK National Agency for Erasmus+ Active CSR policy

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Introduction – Microsoft’s BI stack Cutting through the hype…

Data Analyst jokes 'We're beginning to see some positive patterns in the emerging data.'

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Changes in the Microsoft Business Intelligence Landscape

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Changes in the Microsoft BI Landscape (1) SQL Server Analysis (SSAS) –Disk based storage –Distinct steps of model development –Usually under the control of IT department Disadvantages -“Back-and-forth” approach to make the model work -Separation of duties (and people)

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Changes in the Microsoft BI Landscape (2) Semantic Modeling –In memory processing –Real-time model changes –Uniform platform for all data analysis –Can be used by individual users in Excel –Sharepoint deployment –New “Tabular” model Advantages Excel users can consume massive amount of data Excel users can create their own analytical models Empowerment for analytical users!

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas BISM and Tabular Modeling (1) Traditional BI approach

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas BISM and Tabular Modeling (2)

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas BISM and Tabular Modeling (3) BISM – Business Intelligence Semantic Model Attempts to serve users who are comfortable with tabular structure and maintains professional OLAP models for corporate BI purposes

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas “It’s free, but they sell your information”

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas The Components of Power BI

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI components (1) Component NameDescription Power Query An Excel add-in that enables searching for data, both public sources and within an organization Power Pivot Originally an Excel add-in (but now incorporated into Excel 2013) it enables modeling and data clean-up of tables in preparation for creating data visualizations Power View A feature of Excel and an add-in to SharePoint for creating data visualizations Power Map An Excel add-in that creates three-dimensional visualizations of geographic data or timelines. Q&A An Office 365 feature that allows users to query a data set using "natural language"

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI components (2) Component NameDescription Power BI Sites An Office 365 feature that provides a portal for sharing workbooks and data sources Data Management Gateway An application installed on the customer's premises that lets IT control data sources published on Power BI Sites, as well as offering control over user access to data Admin Center An IT tool that registers on-premises data sources with an online portal (via OData or SharePoint Online connection string) Mobile BI Mobile device support on Windows 8, Windows RT and iOS tablets for data visualizations using HTML 5 browser technology

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power Query Allows you to connect to a variety of different data sources (including Odata) Define repeatable steps for data import and transformation Enables data to be imported into Excel’s new data model Includes the “M” functional language that can used to program data manipulation steps

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power Pivot Power Pivot was originally available as an add-on for Excel 2010 as a self-contained unit consisting of both a user-interface and a new database engine that could process much larger volumes of data In Excel 2013 this is implemented slightly differently, as now the new database engine is built directly into Excel (rather than via an add-on), but Power Pivot still exists as a user interface Complex calculations can be written in DAX, the language of Power Pivot

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power View Power View has various implementations Power View sheets in Excel 2013 Power View reports in SharePoint server Power View reports within Office365 (via Power BI) The Excel 2013 and SharePoint implementations require SilverLight installed on the machine used to view/create the reports Although SilverLight is recommended, you can view Power View served up via Power BI reports using a HTML5 compatible browser

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power View Power View requirements –View/Interact Excel 2013 Office 365/Power BI via Browser (including mobile devices) –Silverlight or HTML5 SharePoint + PowerPivot Gallery Mobile BI (Windows 8 App) PowerPoint 2013 (has to be published through SharePoint)

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power View Power View requirements –Create/Edit Excel 2013 SharePoint 2010/ PowerPivot Gallery

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power Map

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power Map Power Map allows you to overlay geographic data onto 3D maps Data overlayed on 3D maps can be explored by zooming in and “flying” across data Not to be confused with the 2D maps available in Power View

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI Workflow

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI Workflow

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI demonstrations

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Power Pivot/Power View – Demo 1

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power Pivot/Power View – Demo 2 (Hierarchies)

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Sharing you PowerViews Send the XLSX file to someone who has Excel 2013 Upload to a Power BI environment Upload to a SharePoint 2010/2013 environment SharePoint Power BI

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Demo 3 –How to upload a Power View

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Sharing a link to a Power View Use the “Share” options to invite other users to see your report Enter address details and send invite

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Demo 5 – Power View in HTML5

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Corporate BI

Lame BI Jokes Q: What’s the angriest SQL function? A: Crossjoin Q: What’s a dentist’s favourite MDX function? A: Extract Q: How did the BI developer send his backed-up database to a colleague on the other side of London? A: In a.cab file Two SQL DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar ……but they had to leave because they couldn't find any tables!

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power View in the Corporate environment Software requirements: –Windows Server 2012 –Microsoft SharePoint 2013 –Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Enterprise) –Silverlight Configuration notes –Install Windows, add as domain controller role –Install MSSQL then SharePoint 2013 –Configure PowerPivot Gallery

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power View in the Corporate environment SQL Server Requirements

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Demo 6 – Power Pivot Site

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI – Costs & Licensing

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Corporate BI costs SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013 Standard - £5,678 (approx.) SharePoint 2013 Enterprise CAL - £80 each SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2012 Enterprise - 2 Core Processor License - Unlimited Clients - £9,500 + Windows Server 2012 and hosting

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI costs

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Power BI costs Approx £36 a user a month To access Power BI sites you have to first have a Office 365 ProPlus solution (approx. £10 a user a month) In addition you then need a “Power BI for Office 365 with SharePoint online (Plan2) with Yammer” (approx. £26 a user a month)

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Microsoft BI – What’s next?

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Microsoft BI – What’s coming up? New chart types (Gauges, “Donut” chart, Treemap) Partner Solution Packs Improving Q&A Drag and drop dashboards Improved Tablet and Phone support (continuous improvement to the HTML5 experience)

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Microsoft BI – What’s coming up

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Resources

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Resources Microsoft Tabular Modeling Cookbook by Paul te Braak Paul Turley’s SQL Server BI Blog SQL Down Under Podcast Tutorial/Walkthroughs Install Power View for multi-dimensional model

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Resources Power Query for Power BI and Excel by Chris Webb

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Other useful links Getting started with Power View Reports with SharePoint, Excel and SQL Server reports-with-sharepoint-excel-and-sql-server/ reports-with-sharepoint-excel-and-sql-server/ Introduction to maps and Power View power.htmlhttp:// power.html Power BI components aspx?Page=2 What is BI Semantic model (BISM) usmodelplus-BISM-plu

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Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Summary - recap Changes in the Microsoft BI Landscape The Components of Power BI The Power BI workflow Power BI demonstrations Corporate BI Costs and Licencing What’s coming up? – technologies and features to watch out for Resources Contact Details

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Q & A

Sound analysis, inspiring ideas Thank you for listening!