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October/November 2013

SQLSaturday Events – Oct/Nov/DecUpcoming North America Events Upcoming International Events

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Virtual Chapter Meetings – Nov/DecVIRTUAL CHAPTER MEETING TOPIC

Business Intelligence Nov 19 – 5:00pm (UTC-06:00) Data Vault Data Warehouse Architecture – presented by Jeff Renz

Book Readers Nov 20 – 12:00pm (UTC – 08:00) Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL 2012 – by Brian Larson

Global Russian Nov 20 – 3:00pm (UTC +3:00) Конкуренция за ресурсы в многоядерных системах. Поиск и устранение причин конкуренции – presented by Евгений Хабаров (Eugene Khabarov

Business Analytics Nov 25 – 12:00pm (GMT-05:00) Integrating SSRS with SharePoint – presented by Kevin Goff

Application Development Dec 6 – 12:00pm (GMT-07:00) Isn’t That Spatial: Spatial Data for the App Dev – presented by Jason Horner

Virtualization Dec 11 – 10:00am (GMT – 07:00) Virtualization Q&A with Brent Ozar

PASS Virtual Chapters Listing

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What is Power BI?

Self Service BI with the familiarity of Office and the power of the cloud

A BI portal for sharing workbooks and reports with colleagues.

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What is self-service BI?

End users designing and deploying their own reports and analysis inside a tool that is familiar (Excel).

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Power Q & A Demo

Note: Q&A works with sample data only at this time

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Power Q&A

Uses natural language query technology to provide you with immediate answers in the form of interactive charts and graphs based on the questions you type into the speech bubble.

Cloud only feature for now but if successful will make it into On Prem versions of the software.

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Power BI for Office 365

Insights and visualizations are better when shared. Power BI excels at making insights available to everyone who should see them, securing those reports, and enabling them to be seen from anywhere in the world:Data Management – when you create a great query in Excel, you can share it with others, manage its availability, and see how much it gets used. With the data management features of Power BI, not only can you share your own query-creating genius, you can find other queries easily, too. You’re collaborating from within Excel, and sharing your efforts online. It’s powerful.Power BI for Mobile – See the latest reports posted to your Power BI site from a rich, immersive app on your mobile device.Power BI Sites – this is the heart of your collaborative Power BI experience. Quickly create collaborative Power BI sites for your team to share and view reports. Larger workbook viewing is also supported (up to 250MB) so that users can view and interact with larger workbooks through the browser.

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Power BI sites for Office 365Power BI for Office 365 offers the Power BI sites application, which transforms a SharePoint Online site into a more robust, dynamic location to share and find Excel workbooks and provides a visual, interactive view tailored to BI. It also gives you easy access to other BI features available in Power BI for Office 365.

The Power BI sites app is available when you subscribe to Power BI for Office 365 Preview. You can apply it to a new or an existing site in SharePoint Online Enterprise.

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Power BI Sites for Office 365

You can see the same workbooks in your standard SharePoint Documents library and in the Power BI site – the Power BI site is just another, richer view of those workbooks. If you delete a workbook from the Power BI site, you’re deleting it from the SharePoint Documents library, too.

The Power BI site currently only shows Excel workbooks stored on the site. If you have other files on the site, you can see them in the SharePoint Documents library, but not in the Power BI site view.

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Setup

Register for the Power BI trial at powerbi.com or add the app from the office app store if you are a current office 365 user. Setup can be a bit frustrating.

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Tools used for Power BI

Power Pivot: For creating and customizing flexible data models within Excel.Power View: For creating interactive charts, graphs and other visual representations of data.Power Query: Enables customers to easily search and access public data and their organization's data, all within Excel (formerly known as "Data Explorer").Power Map: A 3D data visualization tool for mapping, exploring and interacting with geographic and temporal data (formerly known as product codename "Geoflow").

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Power Query Demo

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Data Management Gateway

Setup a Data Management Gateway for access to on prem data.

Manually refresh data for report.

Schedule refresh for report

Data refresh of Power Query connections is not supported in the preview.

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Mobile Power BI

Reports are viewable on tablets and smart phones. Uses HTML5 instead of Silverlight so the reports will work cross-platform

Power BI app is available for Windows 8 in the Windows App Store.Not supported by Windows 8.1 *

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Sharing Data

With Power BI sites, sharing is built in from the beginning. Any users with permission to access the site can see workbooks as they’re displayed on the site, unless permissions are further restricted for a particular workbook or folder.

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View Query Usage

Get information on what queries are being used the most

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Power Map Demo

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Licensing and Cost

Should be available “soon” for general release. Pricing model will be per user, per month.

Currently available as an app in the office.com store available with the trial.

Rumors are it will be available as a stand alone product.

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ResourcesPowerBI.com – sign up

Getting Started with Power BI - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/power-bi-download-add-in-FX104087144.aspx

PowerBI Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/

Power Pivot Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/

Power BI Forum - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=powerbi

Power BI Contest – www.powerbicontest.comchance to win an Xbox One console, a Surface Pro 2 or a PASS BAC 2014 VIP experience

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Questions?

Jason BurtonBurton IT Consulting, LLCEvansville PASS President

Twitter - @jasonburtonEmail - Jason@burtonitconsulting.com