The slides of the session Interactive Data Visualisation with Power BI by Johan van den Brink and Stefan Bekker

1. Interactive data
visualization
with Microsoft
Power BI on
D365

2. Thanks to our sponsors! Try to speak to them!

3. Speakers
Stefan Bekker
Functie: Power BI Consultant
E-mail: stefan@dynamicpeople.com
Twitter: @bekker89
Johan van den Brink
Functie: Lead BI Consultant
E-mail: johan@dynamicpeople.com
Twitter: @johanvdbrink

4. Agenda
PowerBI Architecture / Licensing / Governance
Survey results / how does it work?
Demo Dynamics Data Export Service
Demo PowerApps and Row Level Security
Interesting Power BI stuff
Q & A

5. Dynamics 365 / Power BI architecture
Azure SQL Database
/ Datawarehouse
data export
service
PowerBIAzure Analysis
Services Cube
Azure
Runbook
Live
connection
OData connection

6. Power BI Licensing
USER
DEVELOPER
People are used to expensive developer licenses
and cheap user licenses.
With Power BI:
- Free license is just for yourself to play around
- If you are using it in an organisation and share
dashboards: You need Pro!

7. Governance
It is easy to replicate ‘Excel
hell’ with PowerBI
It is also easy to convert
PowerBI data models into a
Analysis Services Tabular
model and let a BI team
manage it.

8. Permissions
Power BI allows for Row Level Security -> decide which user sees which data rows
Is it possible to copy Dynamics 365 permissions to Power BI?
No
Is it possible to sync Dynamics 365 permissions to Power BI?
No, Row Level Security is managed from Power BI Desktop
Read Microsoft’s answers to those questions:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/Copying-security-model-from-
Dynamics-365-to-Power-BI/m-p/175369

9. Survey: how does it work?
Microsoft Forms

10. Needed for Data Export Service
-Azure Subscription
-Resource Group
-Azure SQL Database
(P1 recommended, not
needed)
Easy to scale up

11. Demo Data Export Service
-How to configure the data
export service
-Change Tracking
-Embed Power BI
dashboards/visuals in
Dynamics 365
Reference:
https://nishantrana.me/2017/03/19/configurin
g-data-export-service-in-microsoft-dynamics-
365/

12. Powerapps integration (in preview)
-The power of Powerapps
-Powerapps + RLS demo
- From Insights straight into
actions:
Source
http://sqljason.com/2018/01/customizing-data-alerts-in-power-bi-using-
powerapps.html

13. How Does PowerApps work?
Source
Writeback to Source
PowerApps

14. Interesting Power BI stuff
- New Custom Visuals
- Visio, d3, Horizontal
Funnel
- Demo’s of our typical
Power BI style
- Infographic design

15. Q & A: throw your questions at us!

16. Thanks to our sponsors! Try to speak to them!