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Our Powers Combined: Query, Pivot, Map, and View A quick tour through the 4 pillars of Power BI February 11, 2014 Agenda ◦What is Power BI? ◦Why is Power BI? ◦The 4 pillars: ◦ Power Query ◦ Power Pivot ◦ Power Map ◦ Power View ◦DEMO! -Election Data ◦Office 365 integration capabilities Who am I? ◦ Jeff Mlakar, Enterprise Architect BI consultant from Bennett Adelson. ◦ Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from the University of Michigan ◦ (pause for “boo”s) ◦ Bennett Adelson is a strategic managed partner with Microsoft. ◦ bennettadelson.com ◦ jeffmlakar.com ◦ @JeffMlakar What is Power BI? ◦Suite of data tools within Excel and Office 365 to enable self-service Business Intelligence ◦Powerful data searching, combining, analyzing, and presenting Why is Power BI? ◦Your users know the data ◦Your users know Excel ◦Eliminate “Excel Hell” Power BI’s 4 pillars Power Query: Search and Share a world of data sources to discover the data you need. Power Pivot: Combine data from numerous types of data sources and perform powerful data analysis. Power View: Enable intuitive, ad-hoc reporting in an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience that can easily bring your reports to SharePoint and mobile devices. Power Map: Analyze Geographical data with powerful 3D visualizations. What we’re going to do on our tour ◦Follow one requirements use case (Election data) through each of the Power BI pillars ◦Along the way, take detours to examine each pillar a little more in depth YOUR REQUIREMENTS •Find data external to your company •Reference it to data internal to your company •Create a 3D map of geographical data •Produce a report with all dimensions filterable •Have the report touch-enabled on mobile devices Power Query Power Pivot Power Map Power View Power BI Mobile App Power BI High-Level Overview Visualizations Created with Excel 2013 Natural Language Query Getting Started ◦Enable Power Pivot and Power View in Excel Addins ◦Download Power Query and Power Map Addins at powerbi.com -> Support -> Getting Started ◦Sign up for Free Trial ◦ 25 licenses ◦ 3 months Power Query ◦Formerly “Data Explorer” ◦Query many data sources ◦Query the Web ◦ Wikipedia ◦ Data.gov ◦ OData feeds ◦Expose your data and allow users to share their own queries ◦JSON parser to query over Big Data / HDInsight Power Pivot ◦Formerly “PowerPivot” ◦Oldest of the Power BI Pillars (2012) ◦Data stored in local Analysis Services xVelocity (formerly Vertipaq) engine tabular model ◦Allows for sorting of large amounts of data ◦Data calculations via Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) Power Map ◦Formerly “GeoFlow” ◦Create 3D visualizations of geographic and temporal data ◦Build videos based on time dimensions ◦(currently no SQL Server spatial data type support) Power View ◦Formerly “Crescent” ◦Included in Excel Professional Plus 2013 ◦Build intuitive, interactive reports ◦Publish to Web ◦Interact with your reports through touch-enabled Windows App Demo: Election Data Power BI High-Level Overview Natural Language Query Data Refresh Metadata Query Data Discovery Pricing Additional Resources ◦ powerbi.com ◦ Bing: “Power BI Demo Contest” ◦ Microsoft and Pragmatic Works present: Atlanta Self Service Power BI Workshop: February 18th - 19th, 2014 8:30AM to 5:00PM Microsoft Office 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy. Suite 300 Alpharetta, GA 30009 Questions?