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
Explain about power BI Overview from Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server and Power BI Mobile that consume all BI Data from Dataset and datamodel
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.
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.
Microsoft Power BI | Brief Introduction | PPTSophia Smith
What is Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI is one of the most powerful data visualization software. It empowers the organizations with their tools and help the users to transform their raw data into valuable information. Let's have a look on How Power BI helps to your business.
Introduction to Power BI to make smart decisionsVIVEK GURURANI
Power BI: Business intelligence like never before!
Power BI is a tool that allows accounting and finance managers and professionals to have relevant information at the right time to make strategic decisions in a flexible, centralized, and secure way. Transform your business with predictive analytics, data visualization, and information in real-time, thanks to Power BI.
Presentation Agenda:
1. Introduction to Power BI
2. Why would your business need Power BI?
3. Power BI Architecture
4. Data Sanitization & Cleansing Capabilities
5. Analytical Insights
6. Generating Department Wise Reports & Visualizations
7. Latest & Upcoming Power BI features
8. Live Q&A
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...
Explain about power BI Overview from Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server and Power BI Mobile that consume all BI Data from Dataset and datamodel
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.
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.
Microsoft Power BI | Brief Introduction | PPTSophia Smith
What is Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI is one of the most powerful data visualization software. It empowers the organizations with their tools and help the users to transform their raw data into valuable information. Let's have a look on How Power BI helps to your business.
Introduction to Power BI to make smart decisionsVIVEK GURURANI
Power BI: Business intelligence like never before!
Power BI is a tool that allows accounting and finance managers and professionals to have relevant information at the right time to make strategic decisions in a flexible, centralized, and secure way. Transform your business with predictive analytics, data visualization, and information in real-time, thanks to Power BI.
Presentation Agenda:
1. Introduction to Power BI
2. Why would your business need Power BI?
3. Power BI Architecture
4. Data Sanitization & Cleansing Capabilities
5. Analytical Insights
6. Generating Department Wise Reports & Visualizations
7. Latest & Upcoming Power BI features
8. Live Q&A
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...
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.
This slide deck explains in a comprehensive way what Power BI is, how the Power BI architecture looks like and what the usage scenarios are for using Power BI and related tools
A simplified version of my presentation:
- PowerBI solution architecture
- Key steps to visualize data in PowerBI
- PowerBI Demo
- R in PowerBI
- Custom Visuals
- PowerBI Report Server
- Azure services and Power BI
What Is Power BI? | Introduction To Microsoft Power BI | Power BI Training | ...Edureka!
( Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training )
This Edureka "What Is Power BI?" tutorial will help you an introduction to Power BI. This video helps you to learn the following topics:
1. Why Power BI?
2. What Is Power BI?
3. Who Use Power BI?
4. Components Of Power BI
5. Building Blocks Of Power BI
Check out our Power BI Playlist: https://goo.gl/97sJv1
What is Microsoft Power BI and what are its benefits. how we can Analyse data with the help of power BI. Power BI A Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Analysis tool.
Power BI Tutorial For Beginners | Power BI Tutorial | Power BI Demo | Power B...Edureka!
( Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training )
This Edureka videoon "Power BI Tutorial" will provide you with the fundamental knowledge on Power BI (Blog: https://goo.gl/uFTDU3). Below are the topics covered in this tutorial:
1. Why do we need Business Intelligence?
2. What is Self Service Business Intelligence?
3. Why Power BI?
4. What is Power BI?
5. Demo: Report and Dashboard Creation
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.
Its a business analytics solution presented by Netwoven at the Microsoft Power BI workshop held on Oct 30th at SVC Microsoft, Mountain View.
Get technically equipped to grow and build your Power BI (Business Intelligence) practice, enabling you to offer new solutions and services to customers. With Power BI, you can transform your customers' data into rich visuals they can collect and organize, helping them focus on what matters most to their businesses.
Power BI Full Course | Power BI Tutorial for Beginners | EdurekaEdureka!
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3u7MQz1EyPY
** Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training **
This Edureka PPT on "Power BI Full Course" will help you understand and learn Power BI in detail. This Power BI Tutorial is ideal for both beginners as well as professionals who want to master up their Power BI concepts.
The slide deck from data and analytics workshop for HR professionals. Presented in @hrtechgroup event in Microsoft Vancouver. The workshop was built around the HR sample partner data set
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/sample-human-resources
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.
This presentation will give you an overview of what Microsoft Power BI is. What are its features. Why it is an upcoming popular Data Visualization tool in the market. How to use it and comparison with other Visualization tools.
This ppt covers everything that a beginner learning Power BI must know. It explains why power bi is the best choice for data visualization, what is its use, what are career opportunities, etc.
Presented to The Ottawa IT Community Meetup Group (Ottawa SQL - PASS Chapter) on Thursday September 19
Powerful Self-Service BI in Excel 2013 - Data search and discovery with Power Query (formerly "Data Explorer"), analyzing and modeling with Power Pivot, visualizing and exploring with Power View and Power Map (formerly codename "GeoFlow")
45 mins presentation @ the MVP Cloud RoadShow on April 11, 2015
In preview and recently available in Canada, Power BI. Insights are hiding in your company's data - see the impact of bringing them into focus with Power BI. Let Power BI organize your data. See it all in one place and make better decisions. The metrics you need to run your business on a dashboard. Make confident decisions knowing everyone is on the same page.
Best practices to deliver data analytics to the business with power biSatya Shyam K Jayanty
Get your data to life with Power BI visualization and insights!
With the changing landscape of Power BI features it is essential to get hold of configuration and deployment practices within your data platform that will ensure you are on-par with compliance & security practices. In this session we will overview from the basics leading into advanced tricks on this landscape:
How to deploy Power BI?
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
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.
This slide deck explains in a comprehensive way what Power BI is, how the Power BI architecture looks like and what the usage scenarios are for using Power BI and related tools
A simplified version of my presentation:
- PowerBI solution architecture
- Key steps to visualize data in PowerBI
- PowerBI Demo
- R in PowerBI
- Custom Visuals
- PowerBI Report Server
- Azure services and Power BI
What Is Power BI? | Introduction To Microsoft Power BI | Power BI Training | ...Edureka!
( Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training )
This Edureka "What Is Power BI?" tutorial will help you an introduction to Power BI. This video helps you to learn the following topics:
1. Why Power BI?
2. What Is Power BI?
3. Who Use Power BI?
4. Components Of Power BI
5. Building Blocks Of Power BI
Check out our Power BI Playlist: https://goo.gl/97sJv1
What is Microsoft Power BI and what are its benefits. how we can Analyse data with the help of power BI. Power BI A Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Analysis tool.
Power BI Tutorial For Beginners | Power BI Tutorial | Power BI Demo | Power B...Edureka!
( Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training )
This Edureka videoon "Power BI Tutorial" will provide you with the fundamental knowledge on Power BI (Blog: https://goo.gl/uFTDU3). Below are the topics covered in this tutorial:
1. Why do we need Business Intelligence?
2. What is Self Service Business Intelligence?
3. Why Power BI?
4. What is Power BI?
5. Demo: Report and Dashboard Creation
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.
Its a business analytics solution presented by Netwoven at the Microsoft Power BI workshop held on Oct 30th at SVC Microsoft, Mountain View.
Get technically equipped to grow and build your Power BI (Business Intelligence) practice, enabling you to offer new solutions and services to customers. With Power BI, you can transform your customers' data into rich visuals they can collect and organize, helping them focus on what matters most to their businesses.
Power BI Full Course | Power BI Tutorial for Beginners | EdurekaEdureka!
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3u7MQz1EyPY
** Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training **
This Edureka PPT on "Power BI Full Course" will help you understand and learn Power BI in detail. This Power BI Tutorial is ideal for both beginners as well as professionals who want to master up their Power BI concepts.
The slide deck from data and analytics workshop for HR professionals. Presented in @hrtechgroup event in Microsoft Vancouver. The workshop was built around the HR sample partner data set
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/sample-human-resources
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.
This presentation will give you an overview of what Microsoft Power BI is. What are its features. Why it is an upcoming popular Data Visualization tool in the market. How to use it and comparison with other Visualization tools.
This ppt covers everything that a beginner learning Power BI must know. It explains why power bi is the best choice for data visualization, what is its use, what are career opportunities, etc.
Presented to The Ottawa IT Community Meetup Group (Ottawa SQL - PASS Chapter) on Thursday September 19
Powerful Self-Service BI in Excel 2013 - Data search and discovery with Power Query (formerly "Data Explorer"), analyzing and modeling with Power Pivot, visualizing and exploring with Power View and Power Map (formerly codename "GeoFlow")
45 mins presentation @ the MVP Cloud RoadShow on April 11, 2015
In preview and recently available in Canada, Power BI. Insights are hiding in your company's data - see the impact of bringing them into focus with Power BI. Let Power BI organize your data. See it all in one place and make better decisions. The metrics you need to run your business on a dashboard. Make confident decisions knowing everyone is on the same page.
Best practices to deliver data analytics to the business with power biSatya Shyam K Jayanty
Get your data to life with Power BI visualization and insights!
With the changing landscape of Power BI features it is essential to get hold of configuration and deployment practices within your data platform that will ensure you are on-par with compliance & security practices. In this session we will overview from the basics leading into advanced tricks on this landscape:
How to deploy Power BI?
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
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.
Building the Artificially Intelligent EnterpriseDatabricks
This session looks at where we are today with data and analytics and what is needed to transition to the Artificially Intelligent Enterprise.
How do you mobilise developers to exploit what data scientists and business analysts have built? How do you align it all with business strategy to maximise business outcomes? How do you combine BI, predictive and prescriptive analytics, automation and reinforcement learning to get maximum value across the enterprise? What is the blueprint for building the artificially intelligent enterprise?
•Data and analytics – Where are we?
•Why is the journey only half-way done?
•2021 and beyond – The new era of AI usage and not just build
•The requirement – event-driven, on-demand and automated analytics
•Operationalising what you build – DataOps, MLOps and RPA
•Mobilising the masses to integrate AI into processes – what needs to be done?
•Business strategy alignment – the guiding light to AI utilisation for high reward
•Agility step change – the shift to no-code integration of AI by citizen developers
•Recording decisions, and analysing business impact
•Reinforcement-learning – transitioning to continuous reward
Groupby -Power bi dashboard in hour by vishal pawar-Presentation Vishal Pawar
Power BI Dashboard in an hour with Various Slides.
Target Audience:
Useful for Develops and DBA those who want to know what is Power BI and How we can utilize various features.
Also session will be useful for anyone who wants learn Power BI from basic.
Abstract:
In this session, We will walk through various features of Power BI, How Power BI can transform your company’s data into rich visuals and Easy yet powerful Analytics solutions for your whole organization.
At end of session with following Power BI Dashboard example
sp_Blitz in Dashboard
SQL Server Info Dashboard
Twitter Dashboard
World Dashboard
Most important takeaways from session –
You will be learning basics of Power BI with the additional perk of analyzing sp_Blitz in Power BI.
Various features of Power BI making you from ZERO to HERO
After this session, you will be able to analyze data into Power BI
My Slidedeck about Common Data Service and Model. This technology is under development so content is subject to change and based on current service on 4/13/2018
Hybrid Analytics in Healthcare: Leveraging Power BI and Office 365 to Make Sm...Perficient, Inc.
As organizations realize the cost savings and scalability benefits of hybrid environments, the focus turns to implementing an analytics platform in these new environments. On-premises vs. cloud is the big choice, but how are some companies leveraging the best of both worlds?
Perficient and UnityPoint Health discussed the benefits of Power BI and Office 365, and how one technology-savvy healthcare provider is leveraging its hybrid environment of Power BI, Excel-enabled dashboards and SharePoint 2013.
How to Empower Your Business Users with Oracle Data VisualizationPerficient, Inc.
With Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, your business users can perform self-service analytics, spot patterns, trends, correlations, and construct visual data stories for greater insight into how your product, service, or organization is performing.
In this webinar, we demonstrated how easily users can explore their data in new and different ways through stunning visualizations automatically, promoting self-service discovery.
Discussion included:
-In-depth review of Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service
-Connecting different data sets like HCM, ERP, Sales Cloud and more
-Mobile and security
-Demo taking a real-world business use case from end to end
Power BI Overview, Deployment and GovernanceJames Serra
Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help you make your Power BI deployment a success. After a quick Power BI overview, I’ll discuss deployment strategies, common usage scenarios, how to store and refresh data, prototyping options, how to share externally, and then finish with how to administer and secure Power BI. I’ll outline considerations and best practices for achieving an optimal, well-performing, enterprise level Power BI deployment.
Augmentation, Collaboration, Governance: Defining the Future of Self-Service BIDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3zVJRRf
According to Dresner Advisory’s 2020 Self-Service Business Intelligence Market Study, 62% of the responding organizations say self-service BI is critical for their business. If we look deeper into the need for today’s self-service BI, it’s beyond some Executives and Business Users being enabled by IT for self-service dashboarding or report generation. Predictive analytics, self-service data preparation, collaborative data exploration are all different facets of new generation self-service BI. While democratization of data for self-service BI holds many benefits, strict data governance becomes increasingly important alongside.
In this session we will discuss:
- The latest trends and scopes of self-service BI
- The role of logical data fabric in self-service BI
- How Denodo enables self-service BI for a wide range of users - Customer case study on self-service BI
How to Start Your Own Business and Become a Microsoft PartnerNikkia Carter
Last updated 3 Nov 2019
I ran a business for ~7 years from basically tripping through the process and learning as I went. And boy, did I learn a lot! In this session, I will share how I accomplished starting a business and starting a Microsoft partnership, my hard won knowledge and lessons learned, and how you can start your own business and become a Microsoft Partner too! I have included the deck here so that you can have easier access to the links shown in my presentation. The video of me going through the deck is here: https://collab365.community/started-business-become-microsoft-partner-can/ (as well as on YouTube) but the deck has been updated a bit since then.
Please note that in this session, I will not talk about selling my company, my other adventures as a Microsoft partner, or dig very deep into my experience of running the company. This is mostly about beginning the journey. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at nikkia@nikkiatcarter.me
SharePoint vs Microsoft Teams vs Office 365 Groups: What Should I Use When?Nikkia Carter
Delivered on 14 February 2019 to SUGDC (SharePoint User Group of DC).
Microsoft technology is moving at a rapid pace. New ways to work are being developed rapidly as well. A few such new tools are Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. These look powerful and promising but they seem similar. Also, where do they fit with SharePoint? In this session, we will look at what each is, what their differences are, and when is the best time to use each.
Recorded for SharePoint Saturday VA Beach 2019
If you are like me, you love InfoPath. Even if you don't love it, you probably have respect for it (even if grudgingly). It had been around for a long time and we have done some amazing things with it but it could be a bit decrepit at times. Along comes PowerApps and it is awesome and continually getting better but it's no InfoPath... Yet. In this session, we will look at the differences between the two and when to use each.
Introduction to Office 365 Administration - SPSVB 2019Nikkia Carter
Recorded for SharePoint Saturday VA Beach 2019
You got Office 365 and you need to use it. You need to let others in your organization use it because you were designated the admin but you can't spell Office 365... yet. Where do you start? In this session, we talk about the Office 365 Admin Center and other things that you should know about to lessen your learning curve.
This presentation was delivered at SharePoint Saturday 2018 (#SPSCLT18).
In SharePoint, content types are very powerful but still not understood by many people in charge of making SharePoint work for their organization. Content types can be used to lessen the workload by making a template that can be used throughout the different depts. of an organization and even across site collections. In this session, we will not only go through what content types are, we will go through how to build, disseminate and maintain them.
SharePoint vs Microsoft Teams vs Groups (updated 28 July 2018)Nikkia Carter
*** These slides have been updated for SPSNYC 2018 and contains more and new info! ***
Microsoft technology is moving at a rapid pace. New ways to work are being developed rapidly as well. A few such new tools are Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. These look powerful and promising but they seem similar. Also, where do they fit with SharePoint? In this session, we will look at what each is, what their differences are, and when is the best time to use each.
*UPDATED* These are slides that were present at SharePoint Saturday Vancouver. They have been updated as of 14 April 2018.
Description: You got Office 365 and you need to use it. You need to let others in your organization use it because you were designated the admin but you can't spell Office 365... yet. Where do you start? In this session, you will learn about the basics of administering Office 365 through the Admin Centers and where to start.
1. Be introduced to Office 365
2. Learn how to setup and manage users
3. Learn how to add your organization's domain
4. Learn about the Office 365 Admin Center and the other 3 major admin centers: Exchange, Skype for Business, and SharePoint (old and new).
5. Best practices, tips, and tricks along the way
SharePoint vs Microsoft Teams vs Office 365 Groups: What Should I Use When?Nikkia Carter
Microsoft technology is moving at a rapid pace. New ways to work are being developed rapidly as well. A few such new tools are Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. These look powerful and promising but they seem similar. Also, where do they fit with SharePoint? In this session, we will look at what each is, what their differences are, and when is the best time to use each.
You got Office 365 and you need to use it. You need to let others in your organization use it because you were designated the admin but you can't spell Office 365... yet. Where do you start? In this session, you will learn about the basics of administering Office 365 through the Admin Centers.
1. Be introduced to Office 365
2. Learn how to setup and manage users
3. Learn how to add your organization's domain
4. Learn about the other 3 major admin centers inside the Office 365 Admin Center: Exchange, Skype for Business, and SharePoint
Yes, you did read that title correctly. Didn't know you can create workflows using InfoPath? In this session, I will show you how to accomplish such a feat!
1. Short background on InfoPath and workflow
2. Workflow functions that can and can't be performed in InfoPath
3. Build a simple workflow in InfoPath
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
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Power BI Overview
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2.
3. About Me
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Nikkia T. Carter, CEO/Owner, Carter-McGowan Services, LLC (Industry Experience since 2001)
CMS provides in business technology consulting, setup, migration,
development, support, training, training material, managed services, app
development, and website development. We specialize in SharePoint, InfoPath,
and Office 365. Also social media and email marketing.
Microsoft Partner/VAR (Value Added Reseller): Silver Small and MidMarket Cloud Solutions,
SMB Champion; Other Partnerships/VARs: Constant Contact, Hootsuite, BrainStorm, SkyKick,
BitTitan, ShareGate, TeamFusion, ServicePoint365
Past Experience: Application, Intranet / Recent: SharePoint, InfoPath, Office 365
Past Clients: DoD (Navy, Army, AF), NSF / Recent Clients: Mostly commercial organizations
and entrepreneurs (many nonprofits, bail bondsman, insurance agent, tech consultant,
defense contractors, facilities management company, US Courts, Center of Medicaid and
Medicare, NIST, etc.).
Certifications: CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT), Microsoft Certified Professional
Other Roles: IAMCP DC Philanthropy Chair, Board Member, and WIT Community Leader,
Microsoft VFI Board Member, SUGDC and MFCF-DC Co-organizer, FEDSPUG Board Member,
Microsoft WPC Partner Engagement Board (PEB) Member, Microsoft MCC PEB Member,
IAMCP WIT Board Member, IT ProCamp DC, Office 365 Ramp Up and Cloud One Day co
organizer@CarterMcGServ
6. More Fun Stuff
Raffle: Please join us in the Atrium at 5:15 PM for the
raffle. We are raffling some exciting prizes including a
Wacom tablet, a BB-8 droid, and who knows, maybe a
Xbox One S (need to be present to win)!!!
SharePint will be held at Mad Mex (370 Atwood St,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213). While it starts at 5:45 PM, there’s
no end time!!!!
Pittsburgh Area SharePoint User Group
Meets at the Microsoft office on the North Shore
More Info: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Pittsburgh-Area-SharePoint-User-Group-
3769745/about
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7. We do Request that…
You fill out the Session Evals. These will also be your
Raffle tickets. Print your name clearly if you intend to
participate in the Raffle and drop the forms at the
registration desk after the last session.
You visit the sponsors. The event is possible due to their
generous support and we request that you visit them
and inquire about their products & services.
Cell phones be kept on silent as a courtesy to other
attendees and speakers
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9. What is BI?
• Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for
analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help
corporate executives, business managers and other end users
make more informed business decisions. BI encompasses a
variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable
organizations to collect data from internal systems and external
sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against
the data, and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations
to make the analytical results available to corporate decision
makers as well as operational workers.
http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/definition/business-
intelligence
10. Feature
• Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics
service that enables
• fast and easy access to your data
• a live 360º view of your business
• data discovery and exploration
• insights from any device
• collaboration across your organization
• anyone to visualize and analyze data
What is Microsoft’s Power BI
Experience your data. Any data, any way, anywhere
13. Key benefits of Power BI
Pre-built dashboards and reports for popular SaaS
solutions
Integrated with familiar Microsoft products and
utilizes commitment for scale & availability in Azure
Intuitive data exploration using natural language
query
Real-time dashboard updates
Fast deployment, hybrid configuration, secure, and
integrated with existing IT systems.
Secure, live connection to your data sources,
on-premises and in the cloud
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14.
15. Connect live to your on-premises data
Live Query & Scheduled Data Refresh
16.
17.
18.
19. Power BI Overview
Power BI REST APIsPower BI Desktop
Prepare Explore ShareReport
Data sources
SaaS solutions
e.g. Marketo, Salesforce, GitHub,
Google analytics
On-premises data
e.g. Analysis Services
Organizational content packs
Corporate data sources or external data
services
Azure services
Azure SQL, Stream Analytics…
Excel files
Workbook data / data models
Power BI Desktop files
Data from files, databases, Azure,
and other sources
Power BI service
Data refresh
Visualizations
Live dashboards
Content packs Sharing & collaborationNatural language query
Reports
Datasets01001
10101
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20. What is Power BI Desktop ? Create Power BI Content
Connect to data and build reports for Power BI
21. Feature
Prepare, explore, report and collaborate with
Power BI Desktop
• Acquire and prepare data with extensive
query capabilities
• Establish data structure and transform
and analyze data
• Explore data in new ways through a
freeform, drag-and-drop canvas
• Author reports with a broad range of
modern data visualizations
• Publish interactive reports to Power BI
Available as a free, downloadable desktop companion
to the Power BI service, Power BI Desktop is a visual
data exploration and reporting tool
Power BI Desktop
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
22. Feature
Use Query functionality to connect to data from a variety of sources beyond
those available from powerbi.com
Navigate data quickly with in-memory processing that optimizes performance
Pare down datasets to only what’s needed by editing queries before data
loading
Data sources available through Power BI Desktop
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
Consolidate data from a broad range of sources
File Database Azure SaaS Other
• Excel
• CSV
• XML
• Text
• JSON
• Folder
• SQL Server Database
• Access Database
• SQL Server Analysis
Services Database
• Oracle Database
• IBM DB2 Database
• MySQL Database
• PostgreSQL Database
• Sybase Database
• Teradata Database
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database
• Microsoft Azure Marketplace
• Microsoft Azure HDInsight
• Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
• Microsoft Azure Table Storage
• appFigures
• QuickBooks Online
• Zendesk
• GitHub
• Twilio
• SweetIQ
• Web
• SharePoint List
• OData Feed
• Hadoop File (HDFS)
• Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange
• Dynamics CRM Online
• Facebook
• Google Analytics
• SAP Business Objects BI
Universe
• Salesforce Objects
• Salesforce Reports
• ODBC Query
• ODBC Tables
Power BI Desktop
23. Feature
• Remove rows or columns
• Change a data type
• Pivot columns and group rows
• Modify a table name
• Identify and fix errors
• Merge or append queries to
combine data from multiple
queries into a single query
Common data-shaping tasks
• Transform data to fit your needs
using intuitive UI
o Select data for inclusion
o Cleanse data and remove errors
o Precisely tune the query step
sequence: re-order, add, edit or
delete steps as needed
o Modify data types to support
specific calculation requirements
• Very powerful for advanced
scenarios (M, Mashups)
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
Shape data into the format and structure you needPower BI Desktop
24. Feature
Produce rich data models using formulas and
relationships
Automatically create a model by importing data
o Desktop detects relationships automatically,
categorizes data and applies default summarization
Refine models to enable complex calculations
o Create relationships between tables manually or
using the AutoDetect feature
o Adjust relationship type (1:1, many: many, m:1) and
cross-filter data for new insights
Define calculations – known as measures – to
generate new fields for use in reports
o Use automatically generated measures, or create
custom measures with Data Analysis Expressions
(DAX) formulas
Develop advanced analytics using a combination
of measures and relationships
o Uncover correlations, highlight exceptions and
understand business outcomes
Apply complex schema and business logic to
create rich, reusable data models
Create and modify relationships
Define and use measures with DAX formulas
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
Power BI Desktop
25. Feature
Explore data in a variety of ways
and across multiple visualizations
o Select data elements and sort data
o Filter data and use cross-filter
capabilities
o Drill into and across datasets
o Pivot and slice data
o Change visualization types
Select, transform and mashup
data via a freeform, drag-and-
drop canvas
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
Explore your data with freeform, drag and drop
canvas
Power BI Desktop allows you to explore your data and create
insightful visualizations on a freeform canvas
Power BI Desktop
26. Feature
Deliver valuable insights with customizable visual
reports
• Visualize data and easily author
reports
o Depict data in compelling reports
that tell stories using a range of
interactive visualizations
o Use data from different sources in a
single, consolidated report
• Change colors, format and
customize
o Title, Background Color, Legend,
Data Labels
o New visual color formatting with
fixed and data driven settings
Power BI Desktop allows you to create and customize reports
that tell visually compelling data stories
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
Power BI Desktop
27. Feature
Save Power BI Desktop report files and
easily publish them to Power BI
Share as appropriate with other Power
BI users in your organization
Changes to dashboards automatically
sync across all users
Share &
collaborate
Report
Explore
Prepare
Share your reports and visualizations with a broad
audience
Import Power BI Desktop file in Power BI service
Publish from Power BI Desktop to Power BI service
Power BI Desktop
41. The MEDIAN function returns the median of the numbers in a
column. The MEDIANX function returns the median of an
expression evaluated for each row in a table.
Syntax:
=MEDIANX(ALLSELECTED(Product[ProductName])
,[Sum of RevenueAmount])
Median(X)
42. Returns the k-th percentile of values in a range, where k is in the
range 0..1, inclusive or exclusive.
You can use this function to establish a threshold of acceptance. For example, you
can decide to examine candidates who score above the 90th percentile.
Syntax:
PERCENTILE.INC (Column, K) or PERCENTILE.EXC (Column, K)
PERCENTILEX.INC (Table, Expression, K) or
PERCENTILEX.EXC (Table, Expression, K)
PERCENTILEX.INC (Product
,[Sum of RevenueAmount],0.9)
Percentile(X)
43. Returns the count of the specified interval boundaries crossed between
two dates.
Syntax:
DATEDIFF(<interval>, <start_date>, <end_date>)
DATEDIFF
44. The XNPV function returns the net present value for a schedule of cash
flows that is not necessarily periodic.
Syntax: XNPV(<table>, <values>, <dates>, <rate>)
Present value := XNPV( CashFlows,
[Payment],
[Date], 0.09 )
= 2086.65
Date Payment
1/1/2014 -10000
3/1/2014 2750
10/30/2014 4250
2/15/2015 3250
4/1/2015 2750
XNPV
45. Returns the product of an expression evaluated for each row in
a table.
Future investment= [Sum of RevenueAmount]
* Productx(Rates,1+[Rates])
The PRODUCTX function takes as its first argument a table,
or an expression that returns a table. The second argument is a column that contains
the numbers for which you want to compute the product, or an expression that
evaluates to a column.
Rates
5.0%
4.0%
3.5%
2.0%
3.0%
5.0%
PRODUCT(X)
46. CrossFilter( FK, PK, direction )
• Similar to UseRelationship, you can change the filter direction
• Direction: both, one, none
• Calculate( [My measure], CrossFilter( … ) )
DAX Expressions for relationships
47. Count of Customers = //filters through Sales by default
Calculate( CountRows( Customer ) )
Count of Customers using Region =
Calculate( [Count of Customers],
//Cut filtering between Sales and Customer, then use the inactive relationship
CrossFilter( Sales[CustomerId], Customer[Id], none ),
UseRelationship ( Customer[RegionId], Region[Id] )
)
Count of Customers using Sales and Region =
Calculate( [Count of Customers], //filters through Sales by default
//Filter Customers to only those in remaining Regions
Filter( Customer, Contains( Region, [Id], Customer[RegionId] ) )
)
CrossFilter(FK, PK, direction)
Editor's Notes
Key message:
Power BI is a business analytics service. With Power BI you can now see all of your data through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports show visualizations and KPIs from data residing both on-premises and in the cloud, providing a consolidated view across your business regardless of where your data lives.
Talking points:
This is Power BI in a nutshell and the overall benefits to your business. We will look at what this means in more detail on the following slides
Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables anyone to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of live data through easy-to-use dashboards, provides interactive reports, and delivers compelling visualizations that bring data to life.
Through of the course of the preview over 45,000 companies, 500,000 users, cross 185 countries have used Power BI. That is a decade's worth of growth in last generation business intelligence where I have to go get software, install software, get servers, get analysts involved, get all sorts of people involved before anyone got any value, that's a long road from "I want to do it" to "I've done it". With Power BI, this is an enormous user population of people that are now connected with data in a way that was either previously very difficult or for many impossible.
Power BI in many ways is a connector between people and the power of the Microsoft Data Platform including data that lives in our cloud, other peoples clouds, or your on-premise systems and also processed by this wide variety of intelligence analytical capabilities that we have - statistical analysis, machine learning, building custom application - all of this technology and the value of converting data into intelligence flows through Power BI.
Stay connected from any device
Power BI mobile apps are available for iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, and Windows 8.1.
Key message:
There are several capabilities that differentiate Power BI from other offerings in the market.
Talking points:
Power BI is a cloud-based analytics service that provides faster time to insight. It is used for visualizing, exploring and extracting insights from data. It brings together data from diverse sources to deliver rich, comprehensive views of business operations.
What that means is, with Power BI, you can see all of your data through a single pane of glass, and create an analytics environment in minutes to monitor data and share reports. Live dashboards and reports show visualizations and KPIs from data that reside both on-premises and in the cloud, providing a consolidated view across your business regardless of where your data lives.
There are several capabilities that are unique to Power BI – these include:
Pre-built dashboards and reports for popular SaaS solutions such as Marketo, Salesforce, GitHub, ZenDesk, Dynamics CRM, and many others
Dashboards and visualizations that support real-time updates
Secure, live connection to on-premises data sources to drive insight across the entire range of organizational information (Analysis Services, Azure SQL Database, SQL Database Auditing, Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
Automated scheduled refresh to keep your Power BI data in sync with on premises data sources
Native mobile applications for keeping users connected on the go
Easy integration with other Microsoft offerings, from Excel to Azure services
Intuitive data exploration, which enables users to ask questions of their data in plain English
To summarize, Power BI is a SaaS offering that enables anyone to easily connect to their data, create live operational dashboards and explore data via interactive visualizations
Connect live to on-premises Analysis Services models
Realize the benefits of a cloud based BI solution without having to move your data. With the new Power BI connector for Analysis Services you can create a secure connection to SQL Server Analysis Services from Power BI. When users view and explore dashboards and reports the system will interactively query the on-premises cube to fetch the data using the user’s credentials. With this hybrid solution, you can continue to manage and secure your data on-premises, removing the need to have data reside in the cloud.
FAQ:
How does security work with the new SQL Server Analysis Service connector?
Power BI customers can now benefit from the role level security in SQL Server Analysis Services. The Power BI user name is passed through to on-premises Analysis Services and appropriate role-based security. Analysis Services resolves the user name to an authorized user via Azure Active Directory (more info:: http://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/505323-why-you-need-dirsync-to-connect-to-on-premises-ana) and then applies appropriate role-based security to restricted access.
How does data transfer work between Power BI and SQL Server Analysis Services?
Data is transferred between on-premises Analysis Services and Power BI through the Service Bus (which uses a secure SSL channel).
Does the Power BI connector for Analysis Services add security risk by opening a port on the firewall?
Service Bus (which is the underlying transport/relay service used in this scenario) only uses an outbound port -- it does not require an inbound port to be opened on the on-premises firewall. It uses a shared secret mechanism to create a secure channel between cloud and on-prem.
Will the SQL Server Analysis Service connector work in IaaS as well?
Yes, as long as the IaaS VM is domain-joined and Azure Active Directory DirSync is set up.
Excel is the world’s most flexible and widely used data analysis tool, providing familiarity and flexibility when working with data, and optimized for data gathering / shaping / modeling / and analysis in the context of the Excel grid and native charts and graphs. Excel and Excel Online are fully supported by Power BI. You can publish your workbooks into Power BI to build dashboards and reports. You can also open your workbooks and view them with the full fidelity of Excel Online (note this requires that the customer own a subscription for Excel Online).
Power BI Desktop – currently known in preview as the Power BI Designer – is a powerful new visual data exploration and interactive reporting tool available for free at PowerBI.com. It provides a free-form canvas for drag-and-drop exploration of your data and an extensive library of interactive visualizations, while streamlining report creation and publishing to the Power BI service.
There is more….
3. Power BI Desktop is a visual data exploration tool that enables you to analyze data and create stunning reports. With Power BI Desktop, you are able to:
Acquire and prepare data using extensive query capabilities
Manipulation and consolidation of multiple data sources is performed in Power BI Desktop – this enables Power BI service users to use data from multiple sources in a single report
Establish data structure, then transform and analyze data
Visualize and explore your data in new ways through a freeform drag-and-drop canvas
Author reports with a broad range of modern data visualizations
Publish beautiful, interactive reports directly to powerbi.com
Securely share reports through unique, curated content library approach
4. Finally, the Power BI REST API library allows you to customize nearly every aspect of Power BI, including connecting to custom data sources, enabling real-time data streaming from your data source to Power BI, and integrating other applications with Power BI
Key message:
Power BI Desktop is a visual data exploration and interactive reporting tool, providing a free-form canvas for drag and drop exploration of your data, an extensive library of interactive visualizations, and an authoring experience for ease of report creation for the Power BI service.
Talking points:
A freely downloadable 32/64bit desktop application optimized for use the Power BI Service
Combines the Power of Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View
Specializing in Interactive Visualization and Analysis
Main output: Interactive Reports
Effortlessly publish interactive visual reports to users of Power BI
Updated regularly
Excel 2013 is Microsoft’s premier business analyst tool – it includes rich business intelligence features (Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map) fully integrated with the powerful ad hoc analysis capabilities and familiar features of Excel – like Pivot Tables and Excel Charting. With Excel 2013, analysts can publish Excel Workbooks to Power BI, sharing data, analysis and reports with users of Power BI.
For customers who don’t have access to Excel 2013, the new Power BI Desktop can be used to import and model data, then author and publish Power BI Reports to the Power BI service. While lacking the rich analytical features of Excel, it does provide a simple solution expressly design for Power BI content creation.
Key message:
1) Data preparation…. Get data, then transform and model
2) Exploration: Free form data exploration, canvas experience.
3) Report … Create interactive reports
4) Share and collaborate with Power BI
Talking points:
Power BI Desktop is a free desktop companion application for the Power BI service. It enables visual data exploration and report-authoring.
With Power BI Desktop, you can:
Acquire and prepare data using extensive query capabilities
Manipulation and consolidation of multiple data sources is performed in Power BI Desktop – this enables Power BI service users to use data from multiple sources in a single report
Establish data structure, then transform and analyze data
Visualize and explore your data in new ways through a freeform drag-and-drop canvas
Author reports with a broad range of modern data visualizations
Publish beautiful, interactive reports directly to powerbi.com
Securely share reports through unique, curated content library approach
Key message:
Power BI Desktop allows you to connect to data sources beyond what powerbi.com supports
Talking points:
The four major categories of data source are Files, Databases, Azure Services and Other
Navigate data quickly with in-memory processing that optimizes performance
Pare down datasets to only what’s needed by editing queries before data is loaded to Power BI Desktop
Key message:
Prepare and explore data intuitively
Adjust, or shape, data into the form and format that fits your needs
Combine data from different types of data sources to ensure consistent query semantics
Mashup data across multiple data sources into a single table to support advanced analysis and reporting
Talking points:
A few examples – you can adjust data type, remove columns, change table names
Use the Applied Steps view in Query Settings to precisely tune how the data is shaped - e.g. adjust the order of data-shaping steps, or remove steps if needed
Power Query records your sequence of data exploration activities, making it easy to re-apply them to additional sets of data
Modify data types to support specific calculation requirements – some calculations require data in a specific format
Key message:
Power BI Desktop enables extensive data analysis, enabling you to produce rich data models using formulas and relationships
Talking points:
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
Develop advanced analytics using a combination of measures and relationships
Uncover correlations, highlight exceptions and understand business outcomes
Key message:
The reporting step is where the visual data exploration enabled by Power BI Desktop really comes to life
Talking points:
Note: you can move directly from connecting to (importing) data to reporting – data preparation, modeling, and analysis are optional intermediate steps. Because Power BI Desktop automatically creates a data model for you upon data import, you can immediate generate reports
Power BI Desktop enables you to visualize data in a number of ways and easily author reports
Depict data in compelling reports that tell stories using a range of interactive visualization
Use data from different sources in a single, consolidated report – create relationships between different data sources to create a data model, that you can then use in a report
You can select, transform and mashup data via a freeform, drag-and-drop canvas
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
Key message:
The reporting step is where the visual data exploration enabled by Power BI Desktop really comes to life
Talking points:
Note: you can move directly from connecting to (importing) data to reporting – data preparation, modeling, and analysis are optional intermediate steps. Because Power BI Desktop automatically creates a data model for you upon data import, you can immediate generate reports
Power BI Desktop enables you to visualize data in a number of ways and easily author reports
Depict data in compelling reports that tell stories using a range of interactive visualization
Use data from different sources in a single, consolidated report – create relationships between different data sources to create a data model, that you can then use in a report
You can select, transform and mashup data via a freeform, drag-and-drop canvas
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
Key message:
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
Talking points:
Save the Power BI Desktop file, then go into the Get Data interface on powerbi.com to upload the report and share it with others
This enables you to give Power BI users access to richer data models and reports than they could create on their own
Big Data – City of Barcelona
To help design and deploy its Big Data solution, the city teamed with Bismart, a Microsoft Big Data partner and Microsoft Business Intelligence Partner of the Year. Bismart and Barelona created new services designed to improve efficiency and transparency. These include an Open Data service that collects and centralizes all public information from Barcelona’s City Hall. Another service uses a dashboard with key performance indicators that measure data from 100 systems about topics such as public transportation, the economy, and population demographics. And Barcelona also used the Big Data platform to streamline the planning for Spain’s largest festival, La Mercé, by analyzing petabytes of real-time data from social media feeds, financial transactions, GPS, traffic, and weather data, parking records, web site visits, and more.
Machine Learning – Ziosk
Predictive analytics to do targeted marketing and promotions on the Kiosks based on user behavior and historical data. With Power BI each manager would see a different slice of the data, based on his or her role. A Ziosk marketing manager might see an aggregation based on the company’s 77,000 (as of early 2015) devices. A corporate restaurant manager might see data for the entire chain, with breakdowns by region and restaurant. A manager in the restaurant might see data to show where and when to redeploy resources, such as moving a waiter from one section to another to reduce guest wait times.
IoT – Montgomery Water
Streaming data into Power BI from sensors across the water system to help optimize operations and cost efficiencies.
Thanks for taking the time to walk through the main capabilities of Power BI.
If you’re ready to start exploring what Power BI can do for you and your organization, please visit powerbi.com.
Thanks for taking the time to walk through the main capabilities of Power BI.
If you’re ready to start exploring what Power BI can do for you and your organization, please visit powerbi.com.
Thanks for taking the time to walk through the main capabilities of Power BI.
If you’re ready to start exploring what Power BI can do for you and your organization, please visit powerbi.com.