Bring your data to life and turn them into business intelligence using Power BI. Democratize the BI solution and make analysis, real-time dashboards, alerts and natural language query to everyone in the organization, on any device.
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Welcome
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3. Trigent – Success History
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6. Power BI overview
Introduction
Components
Architecture
Subscription
Highlights
Demo
Importing data from Excel
Developing Insights (Dashboard / Report)
Power BI Components
Natural Language query
Agenda
7. Introduction
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Power BI empowers anyone to securely connect and explore data sources, create
dashboards, get intelligent real-time insights and proactive alerts
Dashboards Insights Alerts
Experience your data. Any data, any way, anywhere
10. Power BI – Free
1 GB/user
Power BI Pro – Subscription
$9.99 user/month
10 GB/user
Availability
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11. Data Sources, In-Memory or Direct Connectivity
Data Preparation
Modeling and Calculations
Enhanced Report Design and Web Authoring
Group Collaboration and Content Packs
Mobile Apps
API and Custom Visualizations
Highlights
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15. Natural Language Query – codenamed InfoNav
No queries / reports to be developed
Type questions and get visual data
Cortana – for spoken query responses
Windows 10 version 1511 or higher
Cortana Analytics Suite – Cortana + Power BI
Examples – Human Resources Sample Dashboard
Bad hire count
Bad hire in 2014
Bad hire count by year and month
Separation by year and month count who are voluntary
Forward looking queries
Natural Language Query
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17. Power BI
Easy for the end-users
No need for formal reports and queries to be developed
Controls to provide rich insights
Disparate data sources can be mashed-up into one view
Query data using Natural Language
Key Takeaways
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Notes de l'éditeur
Power BI has become the standard for modern, self service business intelligence.
Power BI is currently available as a separate product. It is rapidly growing with new feature introduced through monthly release cycles.
With Power BI, you can monitor streaming data sources via live, continuously updating visuals in rich dashboards.
Though business data is increasingly contained in SaaS business applications, there is, and probably always will be, important data contained in applications and databases “on premises.”. Gain deep insights into the business data wherever they are - on-premises, in the cloud, stored in a relational database or Hadoop, or resident in a custom business application.
Be notified through email or mobile apps, when your data hits threshold or exceeds targets.
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Globally available in over 140 countries and localized to 44 languages
Rapid weekly and monthly release cycle
Power BI sets the standard for modern business intelligence
Beyond the inherent benefits of a SaaS-based approach, Power BI sets a new standard for “modern” business intelligence with a collection of capabilities completely unique in the industry:
Real-time dashboards and support for streaming data. Data is increasingly streaming from everything. With Power BI you can monitor streaming data sources via live, continuously updating visuals. Maintain an up-to-the-moment pulse on your business. Legacy business intelligence solutions are largely retrospective – and of course Power BI also provides rich and deep analysis of historical data like other BI solutions. But you wouldn’t want to drive your car looking only at your rearview mirror. You shouldn’t drive your business that way either.
Keep your data where it is. Though business data is increasingly contained in SaaS business applications, there is and probably always will be important data contained in applications and databases “on premises.” Power BI doesn’t require an organization to move or copy data to the cloud to benefit from Power BI. It’s a have your cake and eat it too kind of capability. Whether your data is on-premises or in the cloud, stored in a relational database or Hadoop, or resident in a business application that’s custom, packaged or SaaS, Power BI can send queries to the data versus pulling data to itself. You can do that too – and Power BI provides world-class extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities. In some cases this may be preferred (as when the source database query performance is too slow for interactive data analysis). The point is, with Power BI you have a choice.
Cross-platform, native mobile apps. In addition to its rich Web client, there are native Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android apps that keep mobile users connected with their data, wherever they may be. As hard as it is to believe, other mainstream BI vendors still lack native mobile apps.
Natural language interface. Benefiting from years of groundbreaking natural language interaction work at Microsoft Research, Power BI permits users to simply ask questions of their data. As you type your question, visualizations appear and are successively refined as you continue to type. This capability, perhaps more than any other, has empowered end users to self-serve their business analytics needs. No need to learn complex query languages or master some gesture-based exploration tool. Just ask questions.
Completely open, but an integrated part of Microsoft’s comprehensive data platform. Across the Microsoft data platform there is bi-directional awareness of and integration with Power BI. For example, when a user creates a new Azure Data Warehouse, or a new Azure Stream Analytics solution, there is a one-click option to make that data available in Power BI. Conversely, if you have an existing HDInsight dataset fronted by Spark, or a tabular data model in SQL Server Analysis Services, there is a one-click option in Power BI to connect back to those sources of data. This makes it easy to compose very powerful data solutions and provides “one throat to choke” accountability – if the solution doesn’t work, you don’t have many vendors pointing fingers at each other. We don’t limit our support only to Microsoft solutions, but we make it easy to go that route if you desire.
Power BI Desktop is a visual tool that allows you to model and explore your data, create interactive visualization and perform analysis and publish them to your Power BI cloud environment.
PowerBI.com is cloud environment of your data, dashboard and reports. The PowerBI.com service has been enhanced with increased web-based authoring capability making it easier to create and format visualizations for dashboards and reports though the browser.
Native touch-optimized mobile apps for phones and tablets on iOS, Android and Windows
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Power BI Desktop – unification of Power tools into one, streamlined user experience for visual data exploration and interactive reporting. It provides a free-form canvas for drag and drop exploration of your data, an extensive library of interactive visualizations, and an authoring experience for ease of report creation for the Power BI service.
A freely downloadable 32/64bit desktop application optimized for use the Power BI Service
Combines the Power of Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View
Specializing in Interactive Visualization and Analysis.
Main output: Interactive Reports
Effortlessly publish interactive visual reports to users of Power BI
Updated on monthly basis
PowerBI.com hosting of HTML dashboard and reports. The PowerBI.com service has been enhanced with increased web-based authoring capability making it easier to create and format visualizations for dashboards and reports though the browser.
Native touch-optimized mobile apps for phones and tablets on iOS, Android and Windows
Power BI is a cloud based business analytics service for pulling together live views across all your data. Power BI utilizes the popularly familiar Excel to interface to the Power BI environment from your desktop. Microsoft also provides you a powerful desktop tool for data modeling, transformation, etc. Power BI connects to data on-premises, on Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud applications. Power BI can be accessed using your choice of web browser and supplied mobile apps – for Windows, iOS and Android.
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Connecting to data that resides on premises in SQL Server Analysis Services, data from Microsoft Cloud properties like Dyanmics and Office 365 or from Azure data services like SQL DB, Azure Stream Analytics or from a partner solution hosted on Azure.
Power BI can connect to a multitude of data sources through live, direct connectivity. These include on-premises Analysis Services, Azure SQL database and data warehouses. Using REST API, Azure Streaming Analytics can push streaming data to Power BI.
Power BI desktop provides world-class capability for data preparation and transformation. You can prepare, cleanse and shape your data.
You can automatically create a model by simply importing data. You can create complex calculations – known as measures, create advanced analytics.
Power BI provides a impressive range of visuals - Tree Map, Combo Chart, Funnel, Gauges, Area Map, Waterfall, Donut, Area Chart, Matrix, etc – with a Fine-grained control of charts, colors, images and rich text with URL support.
Power BI provides team collaboration and sharing of content across work groups. Users, BI professionals and system integrators can build their own Content Packs to share pre-built dashboards, reports and datasets within an organization.
A Power BI mobile app for Android phone is now available, adding to the existing mobile support for iPhone, iPad, and Windows devices.
New REST API functions for real-time data. Microsoft is opening its commercial grade visualization framework and visuals built on D3.js, enabling customers and partners to easily extend and build custom visuals.
With this now I turn it over to Ravi for the demo.
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Reports built and published to PowerBI.com with can now have scheduled, automatic data refreshes. True, live direct connectivity to on-premises Analysis Services Tabular models, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse that do not require data refresh. Azure Streaming Analytics and the Power BI REST API can be used to push live and streaming data directly into Power BI.
Power BI has world-class data preparation and transform capabilities. In Power BI Desktop Query Editor, you can connect to one or many data sources, prepare, cleanse, shape and transform the data to meet your needs, then load that data into an analytical model.
Power BI Desktop enables extensive data analysis, enabling you to produce rich data models using formulas and relationships
Automatically create a model simply by importing data
Refine models to enable complex calculations
Define calculations – known as measures – to generate new fields for use in reports.
Develop advanced analytics using a combination of measures and relationships
New visuals – Tree Map, Combo Chart, Funnel, Gauges, Area Map, Waterfall, Donut, Area Chart, Matrix and others. Fine-grained control of charts, colors, images and rich text with URL support. Publish reports directly from Power BI Desktop to the PowerBI.com service.
Power BI will provide support for Groups, enabling team collaboration and sharing of Power BI content across work groups. With this, teams now have the ability to collaborate and work on the same set of dashboards, reports, and datasets. Organizational Content Packs which allow users, BI professionals and system integrators to build their own Content Packs to share pre-built dashboards, reports and datasets within an organization.
A Power BI mobile app for Android phone is now available, adding to the existing mobile support for iPhone, iPad, and Windows devices.
New REST API functions for real-time data. Microsoft is opening its commercial grade visualization framework and visuals built on D3.js, enabling customers and partners to easily extend and build custom visuals.
Devices, Activities, Social platforms are all creating data
Actionable insights driving actions drives effective strategies and decisions
InfoNavigator is/was an incubation project funded by Chairman Bill Gates' Office
Machine learning