1. Microsoft Power BI Stack
Analytics solutions for your whole organization

2. Agenda Overview Service Desktop Mobile Gateway
What is Power BI, Components, and Building Blocks
Service
Get Data, Explore Data, Pin to Dashboard, Q&A, Quick Insights, and Sharing
Desktop
Get Data, Explore Data, Shape Data, Build Report, and Sharing
Mobile
Apps, Data alerts, and Sharing
Gateway
Personal and Enterprise

3. What is Power BI? Business analytic tools that enables
Creating live dashboards of your data
Fast and easy access to data
Data discovery, exploration, and modeling
Share with anyone in your company
Visualize your data on any device
It’s free to get started
Monthly updates
Great online documentation and guided learning
Large community of users
Submit and vote on new ideas for Power BI
Active Blog with weekly/daily announcements and insights
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4. Components of Power BI Service Desktop Mobile Gateway Developer
Cloud based SaaS (Software as a Service) development
Desktop
Locally installed application to develop reports and dashboards
Mobile
Apps to view and interact with shared content on any device
Gateway
Controls access and refresh rates to on premise data
Developer
REST API available to create apps that integrate with Power BI
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5. Power BI Building Blocks
Visualizations
a chart, graph, or map that represents data
Datasets
collection of data used to created visualizations
Reports
collection of visualizations on one or more pages
Dashboards
a single page that contains visuals and can be shared
Tiles
a single visualization on a report or dashboard

6. Power BI Service Power BI Service can be accessed here:
Navigation Bar
Dashboard with tiles
Q&A question box
Help and feedback buttons
Dashboard title
Office 365 app launcher
Power BI home buttons
Additional dashboard actions
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7. Power BI Service – Get Data
Click Get Data on the Navigation Bar
Click Files > Get to upload a local file
There are many other ways to connect to data
Once the file is uploaded a ready message will be displayed 2 1 3
Financial Sample:

8. Power BI Service – Explore Data4
Click on the uploaded Dataset Financial Sample
Select Date and Gross Sales on the Fields bar
This will create a Table Visualization by default
Click the Line Chart Visualization
A selected visual will be automatically updated 3 2 5 1
Financial Sample:

9. Power BI Service – Pin to Dashboard
Select the visual you want to pin to the dashboard
Click the Pin icon on the visual
Enter a report name, Click Save and Continue
Enter a dashboard name, Click Save and Continue 2 3 4

10. Power BI Service – Dashboard Q&A
Dashboards Q&A creates visuals based on natural language querying.
Continuing with the example you can enter “revenue per month” and Q&A will create a visual based on the typed text and offer recommendations.
You may also Pin the visual to a dashboard created by Q&A.
The recent March 2016 release has improved auto-complete for Q&A.

11. Power BI Service – Quick Insights
With the December 2015 update Power BI Service has the option to easily create visuals to get you started exploring datasets. With the February 2016 release you can publish Power BI Desktop files to Power BI Service and trigger Quick Insights.
After a dataset has been loaded click the Get Quick Insights to start the analysis process.
Another option is to select Quick Insights from the ellipse menu on the dataset.
Once Power BI Service completes the analysis a ready message will appear.
At any time you can review the Insights from the ellipse menu on the dataset. 1 2 3 4

12. Power BI Service – Quick Insights (continued)
Quick Insights discovers potentially interesting qualities about the dataset using algorithms.
These algorithms include:
Correlation
Trends in time series
Time series outliers
Category outliers
Majority
For more information view the source page.
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13. Power BI Service - Share
A dashboard can be shared with anyone by clicking the Share link (#1) on the dashboards ellipse menu or the Share icon (#2) on the dashboard action menu.
Type the addresses to invite and add a message to the .
Dashboards that are shared can be viewed and interacted with but no changes can be made.
Changes you make will be sent to all shared users once saved.
Datasets can not be viewed or downloaded by shared users.
Shared users are able to refresh the data. 1 3 2
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14. Power BI Service – Publish to Web
February 2016 update also included the Publish to Web feature. This allows you to embed interactive visualization to websites, blog posts, s, and social media for any device. The example of the right shows a web site with a Power BI reports allowing anyone browsing to view and interact.
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15. Power BI Desktop
Power BI Desktop has three main views located on the left hand side.
Report view
Data view
Relationships view
Desktop includes a Query Editor that opens in another window and is used to query and transform data.
When the three views are switch the right hand side will change. Currently shown in the Report View which enables the Visualizations and Fields panes.

16. Power BI Desktop – Get Data
Click the Get Data icon to get started. There are many options to connect to data. Below is mostly a full list of available connections. Use Power BI or source for full list.
File
Database
Azure
Other
Excel
CSV
XML
Text
JSON
Folder
SQL Server
Access
SQL Server Analysis Services
Oracle
IMB DB2
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Sybase
Teradata
SAP HANA
SQL Database
SQL Data Warehouse
Marketplace
HDInsight
Blob Storage
Table Storage
HDInsight Spark
DocumentDB
Data Lake Store
Web
SharePoint List
Odata Feed
Hadoop File (HDFS)
Active Directory
Microsoft Exchange
Dynamics CRM Online
Facebook
Google Analytics
Salesforce
Multiple others…
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17. Power BI Desktop – Explore Data
Using the previous Financial Sample CSV file, the following dialog will be displayed when loading the data.
Here you can continue to load the data or edit the query used to connect to the data.
Financial Sample:

18. Power BI Desktop – Shape Data
Data View shows the data in tabular format. You can add measures, modify columns, relationships and edit queries.
Measures create a calculated value to store in a column.
Relationships join data together and create one to one, many to one, or many to many relationships.
Query Editor allows greater control over the data, custom transformations, data type formatting, and many other options.
Advanced Editor uses the Power Query Formula Language (or M) for scripting of the data query.

19. Power BI Desktop – Build Report
The Report View is where you create multiple report pages with visualizations. The difference between Desktop and Service is Desktop allows working with queries and data modeling.
Adding visuals and making changes is quick and easy.
Slicers allow filtering data dynamically for all visuals on the page.
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20. Power BI Mobile
Apps available for iPhone, Android, and Windows 10 devices
View and interact with tiles on your dashboard
Set data alerts for single number tiles being above or below a value
Annotate tiles by adding text and free hand drawing
Share dashboards and tiles with other users
Using Microsoft Intune allows managing devices and applications

21. Power BI Gateway Is only required when using on-premise data sources
Acts as a secure bridge between on-premise data and Power BI Service.
Data is transferred securely using Azure Service Bus.
Since the Gateway provides the connection, no firewall port needs to be open.
Keeps your data fresh by connecting to on-premise data sources.
Setting up a Gateway
Download and install the Gateway
Configure – Sign into Power BI Service, Windows Authentication, setup permissions.
Sign in to data sources for Power BI and enter Server and Database connection

22. Conferences, Webinars, additional information
Data Insights Summit
March 22-23, 2016
Inaugural Power BI and Excel user conference
Meet and work directly with the Power BI and Excel product development teams
Power BI webinars
Latest and upcoming webinars from the development team
Power BI Learning
Guided learning, samples, and documentation
Power BI Blog
To keep up with the latest release and news
Data Driven
March 10, 2016
SQL Server 2016 announcements and feature demonstrations
Lots of videos on demand explaining the new features
SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 0
180 Day evaluation of the latest release of SQL Server 2016
Pass Summit 2016
October 25-28
Microsoft Ignite
September 26-30