This document discusses Power BI and its capabilities for accessing, preparing, visualizing, exploring, and sharing data from various sources. Power BI allows users to access data from SaaS services, organizational sources, files, and more. It enables cleaning, mashing up, transforming, and calculating data. Visualizations can be explored interactively. Reports and dashboards can be published and shared with others.
Business intelligence dashboards and data visualizations serve as a launching point for better business decision making. Learn how you can leverage Power BI to easily build reports and dashboards with interactive visualizations.
Power BI has in its DNA the goal of enabling everybody to experience their data any way, anywhere—in seconds and at global scale.
Power BI offers a set of capabilities that are uniquely enabled by its global and cloud nature:
The ability to harness data from Excel spreadsheets, on-premises data sources through the data gateway, big data, streaming data, and cloud services. It doesn’t matter what type of data you want or where it lives, Power BI allows you to connect to hundreds of data sources.
Out-of-the box SaaS content packs that deliver a curated experience with pre-built dashboards to get you up and running quickly. We have hundreds of ISVs building content packs to cater to the needs of millions of Power BI users.
Unmatched, unique ways for users to experience their data with speed and agility:
Live dashboards that maintain a real-time pulse on the business and provide critical insights.
Natural language query that enables users to simply and intuitively ask questions of their data, including through Cortana.
Custom visuals that bring data to life and surface intelligence hidden in the sea of data, with our community leveraging the Power BI visualization stack to create new ways to visualize data in a way that makes more sense. (Now available in the Office store.)
Integration of Power BI with the Microsoft stack. Power BI is part of larger ecosystem that integrates with services like Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and Dynamics 365. These services are aware of Power BI, are wired to Power BI, and enable you to use Power BI in the context of your work.
Anywhere access to insights. Whether in the office or on-the-go, Power BI provides anywhere access to insights with dashboards accessible via the desktop, on the web, or across mobile devices. Inside Excel, embedded—we have hundreds of ISVs embedding Power BI in their offerings.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? This session was delivered for SharePoint Saturday Reston.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Power BI has become a product with a ton of exciting features. This presentation will give an overview of some of them, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI service, what’s new, integration with other services, Power BI premium, and administration.
Business intelligence dashboards and data visualizations serve as a launching point for better business decision making. Learn how you can leverage Power BI to easily build reports and dashboards with interactive visualizations.
Power BI has in its DNA the goal of enabling everybody to experience their data any way, anywhere—in seconds and at global scale.
Power BI offers a set of capabilities that are uniquely enabled by its global and cloud nature:
The ability to harness data from Excel spreadsheets, on-premises data sources through the data gateway, big data, streaming data, and cloud services. It doesn’t matter what type of data you want or where it lives, Power BI allows you to connect to hundreds of data sources.
Out-of-the box SaaS content packs that deliver a curated experience with pre-built dashboards to get you up and running quickly. We have hundreds of ISVs building content packs to cater to the needs of millions of Power BI users.
Unmatched, unique ways for users to experience their data with speed and agility:
Live dashboards that maintain a real-time pulse on the business and provide critical insights.
Natural language query that enables users to simply and intuitively ask questions of their data, including through Cortana.
Custom visuals that bring data to life and surface intelligence hidden in the sea of data, with our community leveraging the Power BI visualization stack to create new ways to visualize data in a way that makes more sense. (Now available in the Office store.)
Integration of Power BI with the Microsoft stack. Power BI is part of larger ecosystem that integrates with services like Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and Dynamics 365. These services are aware of Power BI, are wired to Power BI, and enable you to use Power BI in the context of your work.
Anywhere access to insights. Whether in the office or on-the-go, Power BI provides anywhere access to insights with dashboards accessible via the desktop, on the web, or across mobile devices. Inside Excel, embedded—we have hundreds of ISVs embedding Power BI in their offerings.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? This session was delivered for SharePoint Saturday Reston.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Power BI has become a product with a ton of exciting features. This presentation will give an overview of some of them, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI service, what’s new, integration with other services, Power BI premium, and administration.
BizViz is a unique BI platform that was built to give users better knowledge and insight into their business. It enables users to assemble data from multiple structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
BizViz helps analysts provide Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive, and Prescriptive analytics in the cloud, on mobile devices, and on-premise. The BizViz platform intersects SMAC (Social Media, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud). Users can build and interact with dynamic, information-rich dashboards from any device and will be able to enter real-time data from mobile devices.
Projects are dynamic. Staying ahead of the curve means having real-time access to your project data and it’s leading indicators for actionable intelligence. A real-time, flexible platform Tivitie Insights service enables organizations to visualize critical Microsoft Project Online data in real-time, spot trends as they occur and produce actionable facts for better decision making in a fraction of the time.
Power BI is a business analytics service that enables you to see all of your data through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports...
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How to implement configuration parameters and package BI features as a part of Office 365 roll out in your organisation?
What are newest features and enhancements on this Power BI landscape?
How to manage on-premise vs on-cloud connectivity?
How can you help and support the Power BI community as well?
Having said that within the objectives of this session, cloud computing is another aspect of this technology made is possible to get data within few clicks and ticks to the end-user. Let us review how to manage & connect on-premise data to cloud capabilities that can offer full advantage of data catalogue capabilities by keeping data secure as per Information Governance standards. Not just with nuts and bolts, performance is another aspect that every Admin is keeping up, let us look into few settings on how to maximize performance to optimize access to data as required. Gain understanding and insight into number of tools that are available for your Business Intelligence needs. There will be a showcase of events to demonstrate where to begin and how to proceed in BI world.
- D BI A Consulting
consulting@dbia.uk
BizViz is a unique BI platform that was built to give users better knowledge and insight into their business. It enables users to assemble data from multiple structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
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Projects are dynamic. Staying ahead of the curve means having real-time access to your project data and it’s leading indicators for actionable intelligence. A real-time, flexible platform Tivitie Insights service enables organizations to visualize critical Microsoft Project Online data in real-time, spot trends as they occur and produce actionable facts for better decision making in a fraction of the time.
Power BI is a business analytics service that enables you to see all of your data through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports...
Data Culture Series - Keynote - 16th September 2014Jonathan Woodward
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Drive a Data Culture within your organisation
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In Project Server, Power BI adds value in creating interactive reports and dashboards as it allows data connectivity with OData and other data sources. Power BI reporting can be used with both Project Online and Project Server.
This webinar gives you a platform to learn how to connect to Data Source - OData feed from Power BI. In this session, you will also learn how to create and publish reports and dashboards using the visual tools set available in Power BI desktop, and explore more on its features.
The presentation discusses the different aspects of Power BI like Power BI for O365, Data Discovery, Data Analysis, Data Visualization & Power Maps, Natural Language Search etc.
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Business intelligence like never before....
Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization. Connect to hundreds of data sources, simplify data prep, and drive ad hoc analysis. Produce beautiful reports, then publish them for your organization to consume on the web and across mobile devices. Everyone can create personalized dashboards with a unique, 360-degree view of their business. And scale across the enterprise, with governance and security built-in.
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How to implement configuration parameters and package BI features as a part of Office 365 roll out in your organisation?
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How to manage on-premise vs on-cloud connectivity?
How can you help and support the Power BI community as well?
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- D BI A Consulting
consulting@dbia.uk
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7. Access all your DATA
Data from services
o SaaS services that you already use
o Growing number of supported SaaS solutions
Data from your organization
o Content published by others in your org
(organizational content packs)
Big data and more
o Azure data services, e.g. HDI, ASA, AML etc.
o On-premises data sources, e.g. SSAS
Data from files
o Import data from Text, CSV, Excel and Power BI
Desktop files
SaaS solutions
e.g. Marketo, Salesforce,
GitHub, Google Analytics
On-premises Data
ata sources
Organizational
Corporate data sources
or external data services
Azure services
Azure SQL, Stream
Analytics…
Power BI Desktop files
Data from files,
databases, Azure, and
other sources
Excel files
8. Share &
collaborate
Visualize
Explore
Prepare Consolidate data from a broad range of
sources
o Merge or append queries to combine data
from multiple queries into a single query
Transform data to fit your needs using
intuitive UI
o Select data for inclusion
o Cleanse data and remove errors
Define calculations to generate new fields for
use in reports
Develop advanced analytics using a
combination of measures and relationships
o Uncover correlations, highlight exceptions and
understand business outcomes
Clean and mash-up your DATA
9. Share &
collaborate
Visualize
Explore
Prepare
Explore data in a variety of ways and across
multiple visualizations using drag and drop
canvas
Dig deeper into your reports
o Drill-down in your hierarchical data
o Filter, sort, hover over and highlight data
Leverage Quick Insights to find insights in
your data
Ask questions of your data in natural
language with Q&A
o Type questions in plain language
o Q&A intelligently filters, sorts, aggregates,
groups and displays data based on the
question
Explore your DATA
10. Visualize data in a variety of ways
Growing number of visualization types
o Donuts, basic area, waterfall, filled maps, tree
maps, funnel, gauges combo charts and more
o Custom visuals available from Power BI Visuals
Gallery (https://store.office.com/en-
us/appshome.aspx?productgroup=PowerBI)
o Tools to develop, test, package new custom
visuals
Visualizations on report page are connected –
select value in one visualization to change
other visualizations
Full screen pop out mode for report visuals to
show additional details
Share &
collaborate
Visualize
Explore
Prepare
Visualize your DATA
11. Share &
collaborate
Visualize
Explore
Prepare Save Power BI Desktop report files and
easily publish them to powerbi.com
Access dashboards using native mobile
apps for Windows, iOS and Android
Share as appropriate with other Power BI
users in your organization
Publish Power BI apps to a broader set
of people using Power BI Premium
Easily embed interactive Power BI
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The way business intelligence is used in organization has changed significantly over the years. One way of understanding these changes is using the analogy of these three waves of BI:
In the early days of BI, organizations would typically have a team or person handling all the requests for insights from the business. This model is not very scalable, and it can take a long time for the answer to get back to the user. By the time it does, a new question probably has already come up.
To solve for this lack of scalability and gap between BI team and end users, the second approach to BI was to get BI capabilities in the hands of analysts, who understand the business and are able to support decisions with analytics.
With Power BI, we want to enable everyone in the organization to analyze their data, ask the questions will help them run their business better, and act based on the insights they find.
If we want to deliver on this vision then we need to start with the end user needs. It turns out that end users needs 6 things:
Access to data: the ability to easily connect to data that lives in different systems and locations
Clean data: The data does not usually come in the form that end users needs and a lot of time there are errors in the data. End users need an easy way to clean the data and model it in a format that is optimized for their reporting.
Mash-up data: Users need to combine data from multiple sources in order to produce the reports that they need. They need an easy way to connect data from multiple data sources and mash it up together
Explore: Then once they do all of this users need an easy way to explore that data, drill-down, slice and dice ,and find the insights and hidden trends in the data.
Visualize: Once they identify the insights they need to be able to Visualize that data so that is easy to share those insights with other users. As we usually say a picture is worth a 1000 words.
Share: Finally, they need an easy way to share these insights with others users
Once the data is shared with others, the same process starts again for that user, where he/she might want to add sources, look at the data form a different perspective, ask new or different questions.
The explosion of data permeating all organizations is pivoting the way we interact with data and the way we seek to draw intelligence from this vast – and often untapped – potential.
Consider that by 2020 there will be 50 zetabytes of data – this is 20,000 times the total amount of data that existed in the world less than three decades before.
And for most organizations, this data often resides on-premise, in the Microsoft cloud or another – such as Office 365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Marketo and others. Or it may reside in both the cloud and on-premise [i.e. hybrid]…making it challenging to access and draw actionable insights from the data.
With Power BI there’s no need to move your data; we’ll meet you where you are…as a business intelligence and analytics SaaS service, Power BI equips business users to directly connect with and gain insights from their business data.
Harness data from Excel spreadsheets, on-premises data sources, big data, streaming data, and cloud services – it doesn’t matter what type of data you want or where it lives, Power BI allows you to connect to hundreds of data sources.
We’ve developed content packs that deliver a curated experience with pre-built dashboards for popular SaaS services to get you up and running quickly.
And Power BI delivers unmatched, unique ways for users to experience their data with speed and agility:
Live dashboards that maintain a real time pulse on the business and provide critical insights…
Custom visuals that bring data to life and surface intelligence hidden in the sea of data…
Natural language query that enables uses to simply ask questions of their data in an intuitive way…
Whether in the office or on-the-go, Power BI also provides anywhere access to insights with dashboards accessible via the desktop, web or across mobile devices.
Perhaps most importantly, with Power BI you can leverage world-class data analytics capabilities from historical data sets, but it also delivers the ability to see your data as it’s happening right now…no longer looking in the rear-view mirror.
The notion of transitioning from historical intelligence, to real time insights and ultimately to enable action is propelling modern BI and accelerating the evolution of Power BI…
This means equipping users to take action where and when needed…
For example, Power BI seamlessly integrates with Microsoft business apps like Dynamics 365 and Office 365, equipping users with insight directly within the Microsoft apps they use every day. And with Power BI Embedded, organizations also have the flexibility to infuse third party apps with the same intelligence…
Lastly, integrating intelligence at the point of action leads to automation within systems that trigger commands based on preset thresholds…further operationalizing business insight throughout an organization.
Key message:
Power BI connects to a variety of data sources, enabling you to view and explore data from hybrid sources in a single location.
Talking points:
The Power BI Get Data feature lets you quickly and easily connect to all of your data
This includes a range of both cloud sources, on premises sources and specific data files —from the SaaS solutions you already use to your organization’s on-premises data
Many sources have been integrated with Power BI, connecting in minutes with pre-built dashboards and reports
For the first time, you can easily get a consolidated view of your data, no matter where the data actually lives
We provide powerful capabilities that allow users to shape, transform, and clean this data for analysis. Data is rarely in the right format for analysis and a self-service business analysis tool must provide the flexibility to transform and clean data before it can be properly analyzed. We provide these capabilities as an integrated part of the data preparation experience, providing a more flexible, and ultimately a faster, experience for business analysts to work with data and build reports.
We provide one of the industries leading modeling experiences, for joining this data from multiple data sources together across different types and sources, for analysis and for creation of custom calculations and measures. We provide business analyst with a complete range of modeling capabilities.
Power BI Desktop enables extensive data analysis, enabling you to produce rich data models using formulas and relationships
Automatically create a model simply by importing data
Power BI Desktop detects relationships automatically, categorizes data and applies default summarization
Refine models to enable complex calculations
Identify relationships between datasets from a variety of sources
Create relationships between tables manually or using the AutoDetect feature
Desktop’s AutoDetect feature accelerates your analysis
Adjust relationship type (one-to-one, many-to-many or many-to-one) and cross-filter data for specific insights
Define calculations – known as measures – to generate new fields for use in reports. Measures create new information from existing data already in your model
Measures are used in some of the most common data analysis; for example, sums, averages, minimum or maximum values, counts, or more advanced calculations you create yourself using a DAX formula.
The calculated results of measures are always changing in response to your interaction with your reports, allowing for fast and dynamic ad-hoc data exploration
You can use automatically generated measures, or create custom measures with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) formulas
This helps you enrich your data model
Produce exactly the results you need using the DAX library of 200+ formula elements
Use DAX library to create calculated tables too…
Develop advanced analytics using a combination of measures and relationships
Uncover correlations, highlight exceptions and understand business outcomes
Explore data in a variety of ways and across multiple visualizations
Select data elements and sort data
Filter data, leveraging cross-filter capability
Drill into and across datasets
Pivot and slice data
Change visualization types
Quick Insights - providing a new ways to help users find hidden insights in their data. The new Quick Insights feature allows users to automatically scan and detect patterns and trends in the data that they publish to Power BI. Through a partnership with Microsoft Research, the Quick Insights feature uses a growing list of algorithms to automatically discover and visualize correlations, outliers, trends, seasonality, change points in trends, and other factors in your data in seconds.
Natural Language Interface - With Power BI we continue to find new ways to simplify how people analyze and gain insight from data, providing industry leading features such as natural language query. Natural language query provides users with an easier way to interact with their data, allowing them to type questions of their data and receive answers in the form of live visualizations.
You can experiment with visualizing data in different ways, enabling previously inaccessible business insights
Select from a growing number of visualization types different chart types
Use visualizations that go beyond standard charts – such as slicers, maps, tiles, stand alone images and others
Cross-filter across visualizations within a report to surface new insights
We’re also enabling developers to easily add custom visuals into Power BI for use in dashboard, reports and content packs. To help you get started, we’ve published the code for all of our visualizations to GitHub. Along with the visualization framework, we’ve provided our test suite and tooling to help the community build high quality custom visuals for Power BI. All of this is available as an open source project on GitHub. You can also visit www.powerbi.com/visuals to visit our community authored visuals gallery , download visuals and get started.
Once you are ready to publish your report and the visualizations within it, you can surface it to a broader audience by publishing to the Power BI service
This enables you to give Power BI users access to richer data models and reports than they could create on their own
Cross-platform, native mobile apps. In addition to its rich Web client, there are native Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android apps that keep mobile users connected with their data, wherever they may be.
Team collaboration is enhanced with Power BI integrated with Office 365. Create Office 365 Groups so that only the members of the group can view and edit specific reports and dashboards. Navigate from Power BI to any of the other Office 365 workloads as you view conversations, documents, notes etc all in the context of your work group.
Power BI premium provides a flexible content distribution model, empowering a broader set of people with read access to critical intelligence without requiring per user licensing. To distribute content to these readers, a Pro user simply assigns workspaces to Premium capacity and publish Power BI apps to these workspaces. Readers throughout the organization can just consume these apps without having to have a per user license.
Finally one can embed Power BI visuals in websites and blogs for public anonymous access. This will allow enterprises to tell public facing data stories with ease .