Power BI is Awesome!

Steve Wake
BI Developer, Chipotle Mexican Grill
President, Denver SQL Server User Group
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What is Power BI v2?
 New Microsoft Business Intelligence product line
 Aimed at business power users and end-users
 Rich interactive reports, dashboards, charts, graphs, and
maps
 Minimize clicks to complete tasks
 Open source/custom visualizations (D3, HTML5, and
CSS3)
 Remove Office 365 & SharePoint Online Requirements
(Power BI v1)
History of Power BI
 PowerPivot – Excel add-in using xVelocity (Vertipaq)
columnar engine
 SQL Server 2012 SSAS Tabular Model
 Microsoft BI Semantic Model (BISM)
 PowerView
 Re-branding to Power BI (notice the space)
 SharePoint and Office 365 integration (Q&A, Power Query,
and Power Map)
 Power BI v2 Preview (December 2014)
 Power BI v2 Service & Desktop GA (July 2015)
What is Power BI Desktop?
According to Microsoft:

Power BI Desktop puts visual analytics at your fingertips

with intuitive report authoring. Drag-and-drop to place
content exactly where you want it on the flexible and fluid
canvas. Quickly discover patterns as you explore a single
unified view of linked, interactive visualizations.

Source: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop
What is Power BI Desktop?
 Standalone design/development/rendering app with
deployment to Power BI Service
 Currently integrates:
• Power Query
• Power Pivot
• Power View
* Not all features of each yet, but updates each month, closing the
gap
 New Power BI Desktop file extension .pbix
What is Power BI v2?
 PowerBI.com & Power BI Desktop
 Access on-prem sources:
SQL Oracle Teradata
MySQL PostgreSQL Sybase
Analytics Platform Service (APS, includes PDW)
IBM DB2 HDFS And more!
 Online data sources – Azure
 Built-in connectors for SaaS:
Salesforce Google Analytics GitHub
Zendesk SAP And more!
Demo
 Power BI Desktop
 PowerBI.com
Pricing

Source: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing
Future
 Cross Platform Support (iOS & Android)
 Cross Browser Support (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, etc.)
 Active Directory Security Integration
 Separation from v1 tools in Excel 2016
 Pyramid Analytics Integration (onsite solution)
 SQL Server 2016?
 Integrate Power Map?
 More SaaS connectors? (at least 1 per week so far)
 Integration with SharePoint?
Questions?
 Action List
 Go to http://powerbi.com
 Register for an account using your work email address
 Download Power BI Desktop
 Create amazing insights using your data!

 Contact Details
• swake@chipotle.com
• @stevewake on Twitter
 LinkedIn, Google+
 Blog http://wakebi.com
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