1. Positioning Power BI

2. Business Intelligence for everyone
Power BI
Business Intelligence for everyone
For BI to deliver maximum value, all Information Workers must participate:
Broad access to uncover and share insights
Power BI is:
SaaS based, making it quick to implement broadly
Integrated with Office 365, making collaboration straightforward
Priced to drive broad adoption
3rd wave End user BI
Everyone
2nd wave Self-service BI
Analyst to end user
Business intelligence, or BI, has come a long way.
During the first two “waves” of business intelligence, IT professionals and business analysts were the keepers of BI. They made BI accessible and consumable for end users.
While this approach still applies to complex business intelligence needs, today there is a new “wave”.
This third wave of BI makes BI available to every kind of user.
Today we’re going to discuss Power BI, which is a third-wave solution. Power BI enables EVERYONE to collect, analyze, visualize and publish data.
This third-wave has the potential to expand the reach of analytics to more users than ever before. Existing analytics platforms and tools can be extended, instead of being replaced, by full-featured solutions like Power BI. Power BI directly connects to existing on-premises data, such as Analysis Services tabular models that were created by business analysts in collaboration with IT. Microsoft Excel and the new Power BI Desktop work hand-in-hand with Power BI, publishing reports and models created by business analysts and getting them more easily in the hands of the business users who can gain insight and take action.
1st wave Technical BI
IT to end user 2

3. From insight to action Data Action Automation What should I do?
Build 2015
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From insight to action
Data
What should I do?
Decision
Action
Automation
Recommendation
What will happen?
Why did it happen?
Data driven intelligence is a set of questions that you answer from data.
There are four such questions – What happened, Why did it happen, What will happen, and What should I do.
We set out to build what it takes to answer these questions, with enterprise data.
What happened?
People & Insights
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4. Microsoft Cortana Analytics Suite
Power BI
Microsoft Cortana Analytics Suite
Information Management
Big Data Stores
Machine Learning and Analytics
Dashboards and Visualizations
Business apps
Custom apps
Sensors and devices
Power BI
Azure Data Factory
Azure Machine Learning
Personal Digital Assistant
People
Azure Data Lake
Cortana
Azure Data Catalog
Azure HDInsight (Hadoop)
Perceptual Intelligence
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Face, vision
Speech, text
Azure Event Hub
Azure Stream Analytics
Automated Systems
Business Scenarios
Recommendations, customer churn, forecasting, etc. 4

5. Building on your existing BI investments
Power BI
Building on your existing BI investments
Excel
The standard among Business Analysts
Easily migrate the data and underlying models from Excel
SQL Server Analysis Services
DAX Compatibility
SQL Server Reporting Services
SSRS output can be pinned on Power BI dashboards
Model
Analyze & Author
Deliver
Consume
Cloud
On-premises
POWER BI GATEWAY
SQL Server Analysis Services
SQL Server Reporting Services
Excel
Power BI Desktop
Report Builder
Datazen Publisher
Mobile
Web
Your Apps
Power BI 5

6. Differentiating Features
Power BI
Differentiating Features
Data access, mashups, and transformation in Power BI Desktop
Pre-built dashboards and reports for popular SaaS solutions
Intuitive data exploration using natural language query
Secure, live connection to your data sources, on-premises and in the cloud
Real-time dashboard updates
Windows
iOS
Android
HTML 5
Power BI’s key features?
·       Power BI Dashboards. Customers can see all their data through a single dashboard. Live Power BI dashboards show visualizations and KPIs from data that resides both on-premises and in the cloud, providing a consolidated view across their business regardless of where their data lives.
·       Natural Language Query. Simplifying how customers interact with data, natural language query is built into the dashboard, allowing users to type questions and receive answers from data in the form of interactive visualizations. Customers can also explore their data further by drilling through the dashboard into the underlying reports, discovering new insights that they can pin back to the dashboard to monitor performance going forward. As part of this experience, new visualizations have been added including combo charts, fill maps, gauges, tree maps, and funnel charts, as well as new formatting capabilities.
·       Power BI Desktop. Power BI Desktop is a powerful visual data exploration and interactive reporting tool. It provides a free-form canvas for drag-and-drop exploration of your data and an extensive library of interactive visualizations, while streamlining report creation and publishing to the Power BI service.
·       Connect from the cloud to on-premises data. With the Power BI connector for Analysis Services customers can create a secure connection to SQL Server Analysis Services from Power BI. When customers view and explore dashboards and reports, the system will interactively query the on-premises cube to fetch the data using the customer’s credentials. With this hybrid solution, customers can continue to manage and secure your data on-premises, removing the need to have data reside in the cloud. Power BI can also connect to a wide variety of other on-premises data sources and set a schedule for updating the data in their reports and dashboards.
·       Power BI Mobile apps. Power BI native apps for Android, iOS, and Windows allow users to monitor important changes in their data and share and collaborate with colleagues.
·       Power BI content packs. Pre-built solutions for popular services as part of the Power BI experience makes it easy for users to visualize and analyze their data in minutes, A subscriber to a supported service can quickly connect to their account from Power BI and see their data through live dashboards and interactive reports that have been pre-built for them. 6

7. Connects to the Data That Matters to You
Power BI
Connects to the Data That Matters to You
Data sources include
Dynamics Marketing
Azure Audit
Logs
Application
Insights
SQL Database
Auditing
Azure Mobile
Engagement
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft apps & SaaS
e.g. Dynamics, Office 365, Visual Studio Online, System Center, …
3rd party apps & SaaS
e.g. Salesforce, Marketo, Zendesk, Adobe, Quickbooks, Custom
Microsoft databases & data services
e.g. SQL Server Stream Analytics, SQL Data Warehouse, Excel, HDI, …
3rd party databases and data services
e.g. Oracle, Teradata, DB2, PostgresSQL, Hadoop, MySQL

8. Market leadership recognized by analysts
Power BI
Market leadership recognized by analysts
“Microsoft Power BI leads the Agile BI pack.” – Forrester
“BI leaders can now consider Power BI ready for broad deployment without waiting for a change in corporate policy for Office.” – Gartner
“Microsoft’s new, partner- friendly approach to Power BI expands the Microsoft ecosystem, giving BI users improved functionality and options for mobile and prebuilt solutions.” – Gartner
“Microsoft Power BI leads the Agile BI pack. Throughout the history of the BI market, Microsoft has dominated and will continue to dominate the market with Excel, the de facto and most commonly used BI platform around the globe.” – The Forrester Wave: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2015
“BI leaders can now consider Power BI ready for broad deployment without waiting for a change in corporate policy for Office.”
·       “Power BI's enhanced self-service data preparation, data discovery, business-user-oriented dashboards with a streamlined workflow in a single, low-cost package give BI leaders an alternative from a single vendor as it matures through frequent releases.”
·       “Consider Power BI as an alternative for data discovery and dashboard deployments, particularly when the requirement is to combine cloud and on-premises data sources.”
·       “Microsoft’s new, partner-friendly approach to Power BI expands the Microsoft ecosystem, giving BI users improved functionality and options for mobile and prebuilt solutions.” -- Gartner: New Microsoft Power BI Is an Enhanced Offering at a Compelling License Price
Forrester Wave: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2015
Gartner: New Microsoft Power BI Is an Enhanced Offering at a Compelling License Price 8

9. Custom Data Visualizations Unlimited possibilities
Download and import
Made for the Community by the Community
Use in Power BI Desktop or Power BI.com
Create new custom visual with Developer Tools
Developer Tools

10. Fastest Growing BI Vendor
90,000 organizations
185 countries

11. Rapid pace of innovation