WEBINAR:Automated Testing of Microsoft Power BI Reports Learn how QuerySurge automates the testing of Microsoft Power BI reports in minutes using our new Power BI Testing Wizard. Learn: - How to utilize the QuerySurge -Power BI wizard to automate data validation tests against Microsoft Power BI Reports - How to quickly generate SQL using the Power BI wizard’s built-in SQL generator - How to handle Power BI report slicer variations in your data validation tests - How to access report data that has Row Level security enabled using the Power BI Wizard The Goal​ Gain valuable insights into how QuerySurge’s Power BI testing wizard can benefit your organization, including: - Providing a dramatic reduction in test development time through built-in SQL generation - Reduced skillset needed for test creation - Expanded coverage of your Microsoft Power BI report testing efforts For more, visit www.QuerySurge.com

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Webinar: Automated Testing of Power BI Reports
Chris Thompson
Senior Solutions Architect
Mike Calabrese
Senior Solutions Architect
Power BI Testing

2. •About QuerySurge
•BI report testing challenges
•QuerySurge’s BI Tester solution
•Power BI Wizard demo
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Agenda

3. Enterprise Apps /
ERP systems
Data Warehouse
Data Migration
Data Mart
ETL
Data Warehouse
ETL
Source Data
Mainframe
Business Intelligence
& Analytics
C-level executives are using BI &
Analytics to make critical business
decisions with the assumption
that the underlying data is fine
ETL
We know it is not
Big Data Lake
Typical data
issue areas
The Executive Office and Critical Data

4. QuerySurgeTM
Uses Cases
Data Warehousing Big Data initiatives DevOps/DataOps pipelines
Data Migrations BI & Analytics efforts Enterprise Apps & ERP support
Supported Business Initiatives

5. 200+ Customers in 30 Countries (sample list)
Banking Insurance Consumer Pharma Financial Tech Healthcare

6. 200+ Customers in 30 Countries (sample list)
Automotive Energy Gov’t &
Pub. Services
Higher
Education
Manufacturers Media &
Telecom
Professional
Services

7. Where QuerySurge fits into your data strategy
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8. QuerySurge connects
to any 2 points
at one time
Compares every data set to
find anomalies
…and provides
Data Validation Analytics
How QuerySurgeTM
Works
Source Data Target Data
• Databases
• Data Warehouses
• Flat Files & Excel
• JSON files
• Web Services
• Mainframe files
• Big Data Stores
(Hadoop & NoSQL)
• Data Warehouses
• Business Intelligence
reports
Source
Data
Target
Data

9. Data Warehouse
ETL
Data Mart
ETL
Source Data Big Data lake BI & Analytics
Testing Point #1 Testing Point #2 Testing Point #3
Data Tester: Tests data movement based on Mapping Requirements
Testing Point #4
Tester tests BI
Reports
ETL Developer: Codes data movement based on Mapping Requirements
BI User extracts
data for reports
Data Process: Developer & Tester

10. Web-based…
Supported OS...
Connects through…
…to 200+ JDBC compliant data sources
Installs on...
…the Cloud
…a VM
…a Bare Metal Server
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QuerySurgeTM
Environment
QuerySurge
Controller
QuerySurge Server
DB Server (MySQL)
App Server (Tomcat)
QuerySurge Agents
(Ships with 10 Agents)

11. Supported Technologies: 200+ data stores
QuerySurge supports all the data stores below (and more) as either a source or target.
Supported Technologies
Databases
Access
Azure Analysis Services
Azure Synapse
Btrieve
DB2
EnterpriseDB
Exasol
Greenplum
Impala
Informix
JDBC-ODBC Bridge
MariaDB
MySQL
Nonstop SQL
Oracle
PostgreSQL
SAP Business One
SAP HANA
SAP Hybris C4C
SQL Analysis Services
SQL Server
SingleStore
Sybase
Sybase IQ
Teradata
xBase
Files & APIs
Amazon S3
Avro
Box
CSV
DigitalOcean
Dropbox
FTP
Google Cloud Storage
Google Drive
HDFS
IBM Cloud Object Storage
JSON
LDAP
Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft OneDrive
OData
Parquet
Power BI XMLA
REST
RSS
SAS Data Sets
SAS xpt
SFTP
Twilio
Wasabi
XML
Accounting
ADP
Avalara AvaTax
Blackbaud FE NXT
Dynamics GP
Dynamics NAV
Exact Online
FreshBooks
Freshdesk
MYOB AccountRight
QuickBooks
QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks POS
Reckon
SAP Concur
Sage 200
Sage 50 UK
Sage Cloud Accounting
Sage Intacct
TSheets
TaxJar
Workday
Xero
Zoho Books
eCommerce
ADP
Amazon Marketplace
Authorize.Net
BigCommerce
Blackbaud FE NXT
EDGAR Online
Magento
Open Exchange Rates
PayPal
Paylocity
Quandl
SAP Fieldglass
ShipStation
Shopify
Square
Stripe
Wave Financial
WooCommerce
X-Cart
Zuora
eBay
eBay Analytics
Amazon Athena
Amazon DynamoDB
Apache Drill
Apache Hadoop
Avro
Azure Data Catalog
Azure Data Lake
Storage
Azure Table
BigInsights
BigQuery
Cassandra
Cloudant
Cloudera
CockroachDB
Cosmos DB
CouchDB
Couchbase
Databricks
Dremio
Elasticsearch
Google Data Catalog
Google Spanner
GraphQL
HBase
HPCC Systems
HarperDB
Hive
IBM Cloud SQL Query
Kafka
MarkLogic
MongoDB
Parquet
Phoenix
Power BI XMLA
Presto
Redis
Redshift
SAS Data Sets
SAS xpt
Snowflake
Spark
TigerGraph
Vertica
Big Data & NoSQL Marketing
CRM
Workday
Marketing
Act-On
Adobe Analytics
Bing Ads
Facebook
Facebook Ads
Google Ad Manager
Google Ads
Google Analytics
Google Campaign Manager
HubSpot
Instagram
LinkedIn
LinkedIn Ads
Magento
MailChimp
Marketo
Oracle Eloqua
Oracle Sales
Pinterest
SAP BusinessObjects BI
Salesforce Chatter,Einstein,
Marketing,Pardot
SendGrid
Snapchat Ads
Splunk
SurveyMonkey
Twitter
Twitter Ads
YouTube Analytics
BI Reports
Microsoft Power BI
Tableau
IBM Cognos
Microstrategy
Oracle OBIEE
SAP Business Objects
Collaboration
AWS Management
Active Directory
Airtable
Alfresco
Asana
Autify
Azure DevOps
Azure Management
Basecamp
Bugzilla
Confluence
DocuSign
Email
Evernote
Excel
Excel Online
Excel Services
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Contacts
Google Sheets
HCL Domino
Jira
Jira Service Desk
Kintone
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Teams
Office 365
OneNote
QuickBase
Raisers Edge NXT
SAP BusinessObjects BI
SAP SuccessFactors
SharePoint
Slack
Smartsheet
Trello
WordPress
Xero WorkflowMax
Zendesk

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BI Report Testing Challenges

13. BI Report Testing: the Challenge
Most Common Use Cases
1) Compare visualization (and underlying numbers) on
BI report to backend data store(s)
2) Compare one report to another report
3) Ensure reports have been updated correctly
4) Compare to trends & normal business operations
i.e. normal sales by day
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It only takes 1 or 2 people saying “I don’t trust the data”
to invalidate a report. That can tank a whole project.
- CIO Magazine

14. The Most Common Data Validation Method
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Most Common Validation Methods
• “Stare & Compare”
• Standard functional automation tools (i.e. Selenium)
Challenge of Testing BI Reports
• BI testing is mostly a manual process
• Increases the workload for testers making it prone
to mistakes.

15. QuerySurge BI Tester
Provides a successful approach to solving the problem
of testing the data embedded in BI solutions
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16. QuerySurge BI Tester
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QuerySurge supports BI Testing for
the following Business Intelligence solutions:
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17. QuerySurge Power BI Wizard
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Power BI Wizard
• No code solution for testing data within
Power BI visualizations
• Quickly and easily create queries against
Power BI reports
• Ability to pass slicer settings to Power BI
report - allowing for filter testing and
validation

18. QuerySurge Power BI Wizard
Microsoft
Power BI report
QuerySurge
Design Time Run
QuerySurge
Runtime Dashboard
Data Failures
Found (red)

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