1. H*ckin Sweet Reports with Power BI
Power BI at Innovative Architects
Julie Smith

2. Julie Smith @JulieChix Datachix.com
Current Events.

3. A Word of Inspiration
Nobody can be an expert on all things. That’s never been more true than it is today with this technology.
Nobody can be an expert. That’s never been more true than it is today with this technology. So just go for it.

4. What is Power BI?

5. Power! Cloud! Mobile! The Marketing Buzz Five Minutes to Wow
Cloud-based business analytics service
Dashboards
Reports
Visualizations
Q&A
Any data, anywhere, anytime
Cloud!
Mobile!

6. Power! Cloud! Mobile! Human Speak Fast. Self Service-y for Power Users
Creating tiles that interact, presentation ready.
Cloud!
Mobile!

7. PBI is a Bundle of Services, Apps and Tools:
Power!
PBI is a Bundle of Services, Apps and Tools:
Power BI Service (powerbi.com, SaaS)
Power BI Desktop – free Windows app for self-service data analytics – All the Powers That Excel, for free with a bumble bee coating
Power BI Mobile – apps for iOS, Android, and Windows
Power BI Custom Visualizations – Open source, based on D3
Power BI Embedded – an Azure service for integrating Power BI reports in custom apps (uses Azure and iframes)
Now uses APIs and Service
Power BI Report Server—On Premises version.
Power BI Premium –Capacity Pricing for large volume
Premise for this slide from original deck here: From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

8. Power!
Pricing
A Power BI Pro license is required to distribute content to other users, and for peer-to-peer sharing and collaboration.
A Power BI Pro license is required to publish content to Power BI Premium.
A Power BI Pro license is required to receive content from other users, unless the user is associated with dedicated capacity in Power BI Premium.
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

9. Power BI Report Server (On Premises).
Power BI report server is an on premises companion to Premium and is built on top of SSRS. Therefore it also serves as an SSRS server with the new Mobile Reports. The companion license allows a server with up to eight cores for each Premium node.
Currently, the only two paths to this license is Premium and SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance. You can publish to Report Server from the Desktop edition, but Microsoft implies you still need a Pro license to publish.

10. Power BI Service

11. Important Parts—The Service
Share DshBd
Q&A
DshBd
Tiles
Reports
Datasets
Tiles--visualizations
Datasets – can be reused across multiple dashboards and reports
Reports – where you build your visualizations –can do it here, but limited. Don’t do it here.
Dashboards – like a mobile app. Stream all reports vertically. How you share outside org.
Get Data – go connect to native sources or your own
Workspace chevron—
Get Data

12. Administrative Elements of Service
Gateways (Which are necessary for refreshing data)
Setting up data refreshes
Implementing Role Level Security (Mapping roles to users and groups)
Application Groups (formerly called Workgroups)
Content packs** Applications
Tiles--visualizations
Datasets – can be reused across multiple dashboards and reports
Reports – where you build your visualizations –can do it here, but limited. Don’t do it here.
Dashboards – like a mobile app. Stream all reports vertically. How you share outside org.
Get Data – go connect to native sources or your own
Workspace chevron—
Get Data

13. Power BI Desktop

14. Power BI Desktop Free tool Author reports Model & shape data
DAX support
Publish to Power BI Service
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

15. Power BI Desktop --Aliases
Power Pivot
Power View
Power Query
Power Query
Power Pivot Dax
And BTW, you’re not crazy about this:
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

16. Power BI Desktop –Power Query
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

17. Power BI Desktop –Power Pivot
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

18. Power BI Desktop –Power View
From Slideshare, Teo Lachev and Brian Jackson (

19. VertiPaq—It’s all the same thing!
Soheil Bakshi
PowerBI
Power Pivot
SSAS Tabular = =

20. Word on Visualizations

21. Don’t Forget the Goal

22. Easy to Understand Data

23. Easy to Understand Data
Four chart Types to use:
Bar or column (not stacked. That goes to area)
Line charts
Scatter charts
Tables
Avoid Pie Charts and Pie Chart Variations (although many people love them and if your client does, I’m ok using them)

24. Bar and Column Charts

25. Line Charts

26. Scatter Chart
Show patterns in large sets of data Useful for illustrating the patterns in the data, for example by showing linear or non-linear trends, clusters, and outliers.

27. Tables

28. Area Perceptions--No

29. Sharing and Security

30. Sharing and Security
Power BI users inside or outside of your organization:
You can share a dashboard, not the reports or datasets directly
Row level security
**our experience has been this is buggy sharing externally.

31. Power BI on Mobile

32. Mobile
User gets app.
Logs in.

33. Embedded We create web user. We create web app
We create Power BI report
We embed the Power BI report in the app.
Uses PBI Premium EM Skus

34. Is Power BI Cloud only?

35. Power BI Report Server
In January, SSRS 2016 Preview arrived with Power BI Integrated.

36. Power BI Report Server
Only works with SSAS (MDX or Tabular) as source.
Users access Power BI through Report Portal not the Service
Do not believe you can embed the reports in a web app; can only give folks their reports through SSRS portal rather than PBI Service.
Guyinacube.com

37. Power BI Desktop for On Premises
Note SSRS in title bar
Note lack of Measurement and Modeling
Regular PBI Desktop

38. Mobile in Power BI Report Server
Yet another free tool to build mobile---SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher
Publish to server, renders by the connection you make to the SSRS server on Power BI App

39. Today’s Demo Data-- @dog_rates

40. Today’s Demo Data

41. Today’s Demo Data

42. “exotic doggos”

43. …guys this is frustrating