1. BRK1007
Improve decision-making with Business Analytics in Microsoft Excel 2016
Dany Hoter & Olaf Hubel
Senior Program Managers – Excel

2. Overview

3. The World of Data is Changing

4. Excel is the most widely used Productivity tool in the world

5. Constant Improvements
Plan
Capture
Classify
Discuss
Deploy
Rings
First Release
Telemetry
Communicate
Policy
Playbook
Resources
Listen
Signal vs Noise
Feedback
Measure and Improve
User feedback via in product and User Voice
Telemetry drives our decisions
Constant updates via Office 365

6. Be deliberately better-together with Power BI
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Be deliberately better-together with Power BI
For deep and powerful analytical capabilities and flexible ad-hoc work
Excel
For building interactive reports
Power BI Desktop
For live, connected reports, and flexible dashboards
Power BI Service
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7. Business Analytics in Excel

8. I need clean data relevant to the question I’m trying to answer
Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
I need clean data relevant to the question I’m trying to answer

9. Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
Power Query

10. Data Acquisition Data Shaping and Transformations (ETL)
All data should be brought into the worksheet first
Transformation through Excel formulas
Can be automated w/ Macros
w/o Power Query
Excel 2016
w/ Get & Transform
(built-in Power Query)
Easy-to-use UI to transform the data
Transformation Sequence defined in the Query Editor
Automatically repeated during refresh (on new data)
Bring in partial data if needed
Bring data to worksheet or to the data model
Powerful query language (M) for advanced users
Queries can be merged or appended
Data source

11. Data Acquisition Support for New Data Sources
Excel 2013
Excel 2016
File
From File (Text, CSV, XML) √
Excel workbook, Folder
Database
From Database Access, SQL Server, Analysis Services
Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, ODBC, SAP HANA
OLEDB Wizard
Other Sources
MS Query
Enterprise Catalog Search
Hadoop (HDFS), Azure HDInsight, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Table Storage
SharePoint List, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange
Facebook
Dynamics CRM
Salesforce Objects & Reports

12. Demo Get & Transform (aka Power Query) 9/11/2018
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13. I need to make sense of my data and find insights in my data
Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
I need to make sense of my data and find insights in my data

14. Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
Data model Power Pivot
Forecasting

15. Excel Data Model (Power Pivot)
By using Power Pivot for Excel, you can transform enormous quantities of data with incredible speed into meaningful information to get the answers you need in seconds.
Take advantage of familiar Excel tools and features
Process massive amounts of data in seconds
Load even the largest data sets from virtually any source including databases, data feeds, Reporting Services, and text files
Use powerful new analytical capabilities, such as Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

16. 9/11/2018
Demo
Data Model
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17. Data Analysis Predictive Analytics
New time-series forecasting (using exponential smoothing)
Forecast.ETS(time, time_series, value_series)
Forecast.ETS.Seasonality( … )
Forecast.ETS.Confint( … )
Forecast.ETS.Stat( … )

18. 9/11/2018
Demo
Forecasting
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19. I need to explore my data and make it compelling
Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
I need to explore my data and make it compelling

20. Charting Improvements
Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
Charting Improvements

21. Data Visualizations Office 2016 Office 2013 Tree map Sunburst
Histogram
Pareto
Box & Whisker
Waterfall
Funnel
Map
Office 2013
Chart Recommendations
Combo Chart UX
Live Preview
Proximal UI
Task panes
Rich Data Labels

22. Demo Time Grouping and New Chart Types 9/11/2018
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24. I need to share my findings with others
Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
I need to share my findings with others
I need to view and interact with findings, spreadsheets, visuals, data, etc.

25. Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
SharePoint
O365
Power BI
Excel Online
Power BI

26. Publishing BI Reports “I want to publish my Excel report…”
How? Publishing from within Excel
To OneDrive
To SharePoint On-Premises
To Office 365 / OneDrive For Business /SharePoint Online
To Power BI

27. Publishing BI Reports Upload your workbooks to Power BI
Bring your entire Excel files from OneDrive for Business to PowerBI.com
View and interact with the workbook in PowerBI.com

28. Publishing BI Reports Power BI publisher for Excel add-in
Connect directly to data in the Power BI service and analyze that data in Excel using PivotTables and PivotCharts.

29. Demo Publishing to Power BI 9/11/2018
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30. In Summary – Business Analytics in Excel 2016
Consume
Publish
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
Power Query Integration
Enterprise Catalog
Data Transformations
New Data Sources
Programmability using Excel’s Object Model
Enhanced Analysis Experiences
Power Pivot/ Data Modelling Usability Improvements
Automatic Data Model Relationship Detection
Analyze Power Bi in Excel
Deferred Update Mode
Native Excel Forecasting Experiences
Enhanced Visualizations
New Chart Types (Waterfall, Sunburst, Tree-maps, …)
Time Grouping
3-D Maps - Power Map
Easy Publishing
Publishing to SharePoint and Office 365
Publish models and dashboard elements to Power BI from Excel
Embedding in blogs
Better Excel Online Consumption
Search in Filters
Value Field Settings
Save as
Number formatting
Show/Hide grid
View port
…More features coming regularly to Excel Online
650+ Million total users, 25% BI users

31. Excel Resources

32. Excel Community
Join thousands of others on the new community for Excel users from around the world.
With over half a billion Excel customers, we want to engage with you in fundamentally different ways and the community is a starting point for that. Our community helps answer your product questions with responses from other knowledgeable community members. 
TechCommunity.Microsoft.com

33. Free Excel Resources Excel Hand On Labs Excel Training Course
Get hands on with one of our free Excel labs.
Learn how to work with the data model, how to transform data and how to analyze your data.
Excel Training Course
Take one of the many free Excel courses on EDX.org
Like this session from our senior PM Dany Hoter. Where he will teach you how to import data from different sources, create mashups between data sources, and prepare data for analysis

34. Questions?

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