1. “5 Minutes to WOW”, but HOW?
Aaron Bator, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer
Samuel Lester, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer

2. Speaker Intro Aaron Bator Sam Lester @Aaron_Bator
Microsoft SharePoint Field Engineer
Spent many years travelling to customer sites training on SharePoint features
Spends a lot of time now trying to get customers to use SharePoint and Business Intelligence features
Sam Lester
Microsoft SQL Server / BI Premier Field Engineer​
Spent 11 years in the SQL Server Product Group (SSMS, Setup, Profiler, Migration, UCP, DAC)​
Spends a lot of time helping customers gain insight from their mountains of data
@Aaron_Bator
@SQLSamLester
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3. AGENDA Power BI: Desktop? Online? Free? Pay?
What does “5 Minutes to Wow” mean?
How do I make the “Wow”?
How to make your own demo?
What’s the future of Power BI?
What about SSRS?
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4. Sponsors
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5. What do we mean by “Power BI”?
Power BI: Desktop? Online? Free? Pay?
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6. What do we mean by “Power BI”?
Power BI: Desktop? Online? Free? Pay?
Power BI Desktop: Free
Power BI: Subscription Model
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7. Office 365 and Power BI
If you have Office 365 you may already have Power BI as part of your subscription
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8. Some things to be aware of
Power BI Desktop Updates Monthly
Custom Visuals have to be downloaded and installed
32-Bit and 64-Bit versions of Power BI Desktop
Publishing data to the cloud on the Power BI Service – do you want that?
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9. Some things to be aware of
Import vs. Direct Query
PBIX file contains all the data and the visualizations
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10. Custom Visuals? Is that the Wow?
We’re getting there:
Power BI Desktop has visuals built in, but new ones are released often
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11. What does “5 Minutes to Wow” mean?
Self-service reporting
Take your existing data and create a dashboard
Aggregation/Evolution of “Power” tools in Excel
Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query
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12. What does “5 Minutes to Wow” mean?
Power BI delivers custom data visualization to business teams
Bringing the power of data visualization to business users
Powerful democratized data
“Power BI and custom visualizations fuel our self-service BI culture”
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13. How do I make the “Wow”? Ingredients Power BI Desktop Data Sources
Does everything Start or End in Excel?
SQL Server
SharePoint Lists
Web Pages
Access
Question(s) you want to answer
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14. Personas are key – Who is your audience?
Analysts have a different view than Viewers
Slicers/Navigators may be a great choice for an analyst (Power BI Desktop)
Viewers may want all the navigation done already (Power BI Online)
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15. How to make your own demo?
Start small
Different personas want different views
Slicers
Maps
Many small dashboard elements or
Many pages in one Power BI Desktop File
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16. Enough talking, how about a demo?
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17. What’s the future of Power BI?
Monthly Updates
Active communities
New Visualizations
Power BI User Groups vs. SQL PASS
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18. What about SSRS? SSRS 2016 is a completely re-done product
Tabular Reports
Mobile Reports (formerly Data Zen)
Dashboards
Storage for Power BI Desktop Reports
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19. Later today
Power BI Desktop “On Prem”
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20. Questions?
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21. Evaluation forms Session evaluation forms Event evaluation forms
Event evaluation forms
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