This was the first meeting for Indy Power BI User Group (IndyPUG). We shared about the groups vision, Power BI's bright future, brainstormed where we'd like to see the group go, and ate some great pizza.

2. Agenda
5:00 – 5:30pm Meet & greet
5:30 – 5:40pm Welcome & introductions
5:40 – 6:00pm Why start IndyPUG?
6:00 – 6:10pm Getting involved & connected
6:10 – 6:30pm More meet & greet
October 13th, 2016
First Meet-
Up

3. Group Founders
Chris Ortega Brian Schuster Eric Clark

4. Introductions
Who are you?

5. Why start IndyPUG?

6. Why IndyPUG?
•No organized local user group (until today!)
•Power BI usage is expected to grow rapidly
•Continually seeing major product enhancements
•To create leadership opportunities and get
involved in our local community

7. IndyPUG – Vision
To connect Power BI users in
and around Indy to offer
advice, learn together, and
impact the local data
community

8. Microsoft in the Business Intelligence
Market
• Gartner 2016 Market
Leaders for Business
Intelligence Products
• Three Major Competitors
• Microsoft
• Qlik
• Tableau
Microsoft 2015
Microsoft 2014

9. Why Power BI Today?
• Power BI Desktop Version is Free with O365
• Tableau: Desktop version starting at $999/User.
$1999 for professional version.
• Qlik: Desktop version as much as $1500/User
• Power BI Professional Licenses: $10/User/
month
• Tableau Server: $800 one time fee per user, then
$200/User/Year
• QlikSense: $20/User/Month
For O365 Users, Power BI is the lowest cost solution for top tier BI Solutions

10. Why Power BI Today?
• Every User is a Power User
• Deployment Made Easy
• Beautiful Visualizations
• Integration with O365
Products
• OneDrive
• O365 Groups
• Others?

11. Opportunities to help non-profits
• There are over 40K non-profit organizations in the US
• Office 365 offers deep discounts (78%+) to non-profits
organizations for their services
• Power BI Pro for Non-profits has Power BI Nonprofit which is
free and Power BI Pro licenses are $3 per user versus $10 per
user
• Non-profits face the same data driven business decisions that
most for profit companies face. However, they are usually more
constrained from a financial and resource perspective.

12. What would
make you excited
about this group?

13. Getting involved with
IndyPUG

14. IndyPUG – Next 90 Days
• Presentation from Power BI Super Users
• Business Intelligence Bake-Off
• 90 Minute Development Session, competition style
• Power BI Features Discussion
• Non-Profit Outreach Into Community

15. IndyPUG Opportunities
• Potential topics
• Speakers
• Meeting places
• Connections to non-profits
• Sponsors (food, venue, etc)
We want IndyPUG to be driven by it’s members

16. Connecting with IndyPUG
LinkedIn Group
bit.ly/indypug-linkedin
Slack Team
bit.ly/pug-slack
Mailing List Sign-Up
bit.ly/indypug-email
MSFT Power BI Community
community.powerbi.com

17. Thank you!