Get more insights into Power BI through Power BI Groups, Content Packs, DAX, new visualizations and real time dashboards using Power BI REST API

1. Power BI Deep Dive and
Real-Time Analytics
AUGUST 2015

2. Agenda
• Introduction to Power BI
• Power BI Service
• Power BI Desktop
• Power BI Capabilities with Demo
• DAX Functions
• New Visualizations
• Publishing Reports from Power BI Desktop
• Groups & Content Packs
• Real-Time Dashboards using Power BI REST API
• Power BI Rest API Diagram
• Power BI Rest API Operations
• Supported Data Types
• Automatic Retention Policy for Real-Time Data
• Architecture Diagram of Demo
• Power BI Rest API Limitations
• Q & A

3. Introduction to Power BI
• Microsoft cloud based Business Intelligence solution to analyze and
visualize data in a self-service way
• Directly connect to all the important data using datasets, create
reports and share dashboards
• Power BI Service (www.powerbi.com)
• Visualize and analyze everything in one place using Power BI Dashboards and
schedule for data refresh
• Power BI Desktop
• Import data from different sources and create custom reports and later
publish to Power BI Online Service

4. Demo on Power BI Capabilities
DAX Functions
• Date and Time Functions
• Filter Functions
• Information Functions
• Logical Functions
• Mathematical Functions
• Statistical Functions
• Text Functions
• Time Intelligence Functions

5. Contd..
Visualizations in Power BI
• Doughnut Charts
• Filled Maps
• Waterfall Charts
• Matrix
• Standalone Images

6. Contd..
Publishing Reports from Power BI Desktop
• Directly publish your reports created in desktop tool to Power BI Service
(www.powerbi.com)
Groups & Content Packs
• Groups in Power BI bring you and your colleagues together to collaborate,
communicate, and connect with your data
• Package up and share your own dashboard, reports, and datasets with your co-
workers using content packs

7. Power BI Rest API Diagram

8. Power BI Rest API Operations
With the Power BI REST API, you can:
• Authenticate Power BI REST operations with Azure Active Directory
OAuth2
• Create and get datasets
• Set a retention policy to automatically clean up old data
• Get and update table schemas
• Add and delete rows
• Get groups

9. Contd..
The Power BI REST API has the following operations:
• Dataset operations: Get and create Datasets
• Table operations: Get Tables and update Table schema
• Row operations: Add Rows and delete Rows
• Group operations: Get Groups

10. Supported Data Types

11. Automatic Retention Policy for Real-Time Data
• The automatic retention policy in the Power BI service is a query
string parameter which enables a default retention policy to
automatically clean up old data while keeping a constant flow of new
data going into your dashboard

12. Demo Architecture Diagram

13. Power BI Rest API Limitations
The Power BI REST API has the following limitations.
• To POST Rows
• 10,000 max rows per single POST rows request
• 1,000,000 rows added per hour per dataset
• 5 max pending POST rows requests per dataset
• 120 POST rows requests per minute per dataset
• 200,000 max rows stored per table in FIFO dataset
• 5,000,000 max rows stored per table in ‘none retention policy’ dataset
• 32,766 characters per value for string column in POST rows operation
• Cannot Update/Delete specific row from a table
POST Rows operation per Power BI plan
• Dataset created by user with free service plan: 10,000 rows added per hour per dataset
• Dataset created by user with paid service plan: 1,000,000 rows added per hour per dataset

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