Power BI

John P WhiteChief Technical OfficerUnlimitedViz Inc

jpw@unlimitedviz.com@diverdown1964whitepages.unlimitedviz.com

What It IsHow It Works

Why It Matters

November 23rd, 2013

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John WhiteCTO/Co-Founder of UnlimitedVizSharePoint Server MVP, SQL Server v-TS

jpw@unlimitedviz.comhttp://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com@diverdown1964

Agenda

Overview Demo

Power BI Components

Q & A

Early Guidance

End to End with Power BI

Election Results Analysis

On Premises

ExcelPower Pivot

Power View

Power Query

Power Map

Power BI Components

Data Management Gateway

Power BI for Win 8

Power BI for iOS

Power BI for ?

Cloud

Power BI sites Powe

r Q&A

OData feeds

Shared queries

Large models

Multiple browsers

Power Query

Transform data

Share queries

Discover and acquire data

Power Query demo

Temperature Data Analysis

NOAA Raw data

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/global-historical-climatology-network-ghcn

Power Query considerations

• Not currently refreshable (will be by GA)• Powerful new data language (“M”)• Queries can be curated and shared

Power View

Analytical reporting not prescriptive reporting

Easy to build and share

Personal data analysis

Power View considerations

• Available through SSRS and Excel (different!)

• Primarily delivered through Silverlight• HTML 5 currently in preview• Supported in the mobile client

Power Map

Animation based

Visual tool for geospatially based data analysis

Power Map demo

Hurricane Sandy

Power Map considerations

• Excel only – no browser support (yet)• Visualizations can be exported and shared

Data Management Gateway

Cloud based data refresh

OData endpoints for on-premises data

Access on premises data from the cloud

Data Management Gateway refresh

Browser

Data Management Gateway

Internal data source

Data Management Gateway demo

Configure on premises data access

Data Management Gateway issues

• No incoming firewall needed – outbound is required

• Currently only limited support• MS SQL • Oracle

• Power Query not supported (yet)• No automatic refresh (yet)

http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2013/09/power-bi-working-with-the-data-management-gateway/

Power Q&A

Intelligent visualization selection

Natural language query

Power Q&A demo

Summer Olympics

Power Q&A issues

• Currently demo mode only• English only support initially

Early guidance

Power BI workbook limits

SharePoint storage

Power BI ModelMaximum workbook size

Excel Services rendering

2 Gb

10 Mb 250 Mb

260 Mb

Browser editing

30 Mb

http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2013/08/power-bi-office-365-and-file-size-limits-be-careful/

Load data into the model ONLY!

Default is this Should be this

Hide unwanted artifacts

Optimize workbook for mobile• Excel items first, Power View pages second• Items ordered alphabetically• Power View pages in workbook order

• Name every item• No titles for items• Use large text• Legends at bottom• Name PV tabs and sheetshttp://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel/design-reports-for-the-power-bi-app-HA104097304.aspx

What about on-premises?Feature PowerPivot

for SharePoint

Power BI

Interaction with Embedded Models

Yes Yes

Power View rendering Yes (with export) Yes

Use embedded model as data source

Yes No

Auto refresh Yes Yes (limited)

Model size limit 2Gb 250 Mb

Thumbnail gallery Yes Yes

Pre-optimize workbooks No Yes

Publish OData feeds No Yes

Natural language query No Yes

Mobile client No Yes

Why does it matter

MobileExternal

Power to the People

• Sign up for the preview• http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel/power-bi-FX104080667.aspx

• Blogs• http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com• http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com

• Twitter - @diverdown1964• Forums- • http://

social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=powerbiforoffice365

• Power BI Showcase Samples Program• http://pbishowcase.azurewebsites.net/

Action Items

Q & A

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