1. Getting started with Power BI
By: Dave

2. David Feldman @bostonmusicdave

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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)

10. 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!

11. Immediate value for SaaS Users
Prebuilt content packs for many popular services or create and share your own

12. Demos
Google Analytics
Bing

13. Google Analytics
Choose oath2 for authentication then select your account

14. Bing
Choose a term to track

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. Connect to Azure SQL Database
Demo
Connect to Azure SQL Database

19. Adventure works demo

20. 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

21. Demo Connect to JSON feeds Connect to excel data Build Reports
Publish to Power BI Service

22. Attractions

23. Dining

24. Wait Times
Excel data from touringplans.com

25. Custom Visualizations
Leverage community contributions or build your own

26. Demo Acquire and utilize a custom visualization from the gallery at

27. 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

28. 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