no.1 introduction to power bi
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POWER BI MELBOURNENO. 1 - INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI
ABOUT ME
LUKE HAYLER
Senior Consultant @ Servian - focus on BI/IM/Strategy Meetups -
Power BI Melbourne - January 2016 SQL Social Melbourne - May 2011
Contact & File Share Info Power BI Community - lukehayler Twitter: @lukehayler LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukehayler Email: [email protected] File share location: http://bit.ly/powerbimelbourne
SERVIANTHANK YOU
OVERVIEW
POWER BI COMPONENTS & CAPABILITIES
Power BI Desktop
Modelling & Reporting
Local Machine (download)
Power BI Service
Reports & Sharing
(SaaS) Azure hosted (app.powerbi.com)
Power BI Mobile
Consume Dashboard Content
Collaboration
Power BI Visuals Gallery
Open Source
Visuals created by Microsoft & Community
Power BI Support
Knowledge Base
Forums
Power BI Community
User Groups
Ideas
OVERVIEW
POWER BI DESKTOP Data Acquisition
OVERVIEW
POWER BI DESKTOPData Transformation
OVERVIEW
POWER BI DESKTOPData Modelling
OVERVIEW
POWER BI DESKTOPData Visualisation
OVERVIEW
POWER BI SERVICE
Connect to datasets
Build Reports & Dashboards
Visuals, Fields & Formatting
Groups
Your Workspace & Collaborative space
Sharing
Dashboards, Organisational Content Packs
OVERVIEW
POWER BI VISUALS GALLERY
Visuals created by the community
Open source code
Open dev tools from Power BI Service
OVERVIEW
POWER BI MOBILE
VisualiseViewyourpersonalizeddashboardsandreportsanywhere.Interactwithyourdataeasilyinatouch-optimizedexperiencewiththePowerBInativeWindows,iOS,andAndroidapps.
AlwaysbeintheknowStayup-to-datewithdata-drivenalerts.Discoverimportantinsightsintimeandactonthem instantly.
SharediscoverieswithyourteamSharelivereportsanddashboardstokeepyour teamonthesamepage.Tellstorieswithyourdatatoengageyourcustomersandcolleagues.
OVERVIEW
POWER BI SUPPORT & COMMUNITY
OVERVIEW
POWER BI END-TO-END FEATURES
LATEST NEWS
PRESS COVERAGE
Power BI (v2) released to GA July 2015
Features updates coming at a rapid rate
> 200 updates since GA
Keep track @
Power BI recognised in Forrester Wave: Agile BI Platform, Q3 2015 (Current offering, Strategy, Market Presence)
LATEST NEWS
DECEMBER UPDATES
ReportAuthoring
• FormattingPane&Ribbon1. Formatdatalabelspercategoryseries2. Changenumberofdecimalplacesshowedinvisuals3. Changetextsizeinvisuals4. Abilitytolayoutvisualsaccurately:alignment,distribute,
size,position(requiresPowerBIDesktopforauthoring)5. SetstylesacrossmultiplevisualsthroughFormatPainter
(requiresPowerBIDesktopforauthoring)• EnhancementstoVisualizations
1. VisualscueforsortstateinTablevisual2. NewVisual:StackedAreachart3. SmarttooltipsforAreaandLinechartsonhover4. AbilitytocreateReferenceline/regionforaCartesian
visual5. Improveddatalabelsforpieandscatterchart
• RVisualsIntegration(PreviewFeature)
• Suggestedtabletotablerelationshipswhentryingtocreatevisualsinvolvingtwotableswhicharenotrelated.
DataModeling
• RelationshipsView1. ZoomingSlider2. FitZoomtoScreen3. ResetLayout4. AbilitytoZoominusingCtrl-Mouseselectionrectangle
DataConnectivity
1. SSASMultidimensionalsupport- Hierarchiessupport(PreviewFeature)
2. StripeConnector3. SmartsheetConnector4. “EnterData”:Pasteorenterdatatocreateatable5. DirectQueryImprovements: Support foralldatatypesofT-SQLand
SAPHANA,resultinginPerformanceimprovements.6. ODBCConnector:Support forselectingUser/SystemDSNs7. CSVConnector:AbilitytospecifyColumnDelimiterintheSource
dialog
NEXT TIME
POWER BI MELBOURNE - MOVING FORWARD
Our Group Meetings Announcements & overview of new features Presentation topics Demos:
Chance for members to show off their Power BI Visualisation skills Tips & Tricks / Show & Tell:
Chance for members to present interesting bits of information Case Studies:
Chance for members to present on how they are using Power BI & the impact it is having on their business
WE NEED YOU
HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED
Participate in the public forums Sign up at community.powerbi.com
Submit and vote on ideas for future releases
Power BI Melbourne User Group Quick Demo or Case study at a Meeting
Blog / Tweet / LinkedIn updates
SWAG! Depending on Microsoft’s support, we may have SWAG to give away at meetings
The more visible this group is the more support we will get.
WRAP UP
REFERENCES & OTHER INFOSign up for Power BI
Sign up - www.powerbi.com Download Power BI Desktop - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop
Learn more about Power BI
YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi edX Course - https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-power-bi-microsoft-dat207x
Keep up-to-date
Power BI Blog - www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/bi-blog.aspx Track all the Power BI Updates - https://datasavvy.wordpress.com/power-bi-updates/
Diagram of End-to-End features (Melissa Coates) - http://www.sqlchick.com/entries/2015/9/29/overview-power-bi-v2-features-end-to-end
Other Info
Shared Folder for Power BI Melbourne - http://bit.ly/powerbimelbourne
Twitter - @lukehayler or #PowerBI for the community email - [email protected]
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