This document provides an overview of Power BI and how it can be used to create fast and cost-effective dashboards and reports. It discusses the history of Power BI and how it allows users to visualize data in new ways. It also covers how Power BI can connect to on-premises data using the data gateway and live query capabilities. The document includes a demo and discusses the role of IT administrators in enabling self-service BI using Power BI. It provides a conceptual architecture of Power BI and how the different components like the Power BI portal, data sources, and data gateway interact.

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6. History of Power BI

7. Visualize your data in new ways

9. Connect to on-premises data
Live Query

10. Power BI Desktop

11. Power BI Portal

14. DEMO
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15. Data Gateway
Enabling On-Premises
Data Feeds
Enabling Data Source RefreshEnabling Discovery
in Power Query /
PBI Desktop
capabilities
Power BI Admin Center
Personal/Enterprise Data
Gateway

16. PERSONAL Data Gateway - Conceptual
Power BI Admin Center
Allows IT to configure, manage
and monitor access to corporate
data sources.
Personal/Enterprise Data Gateway
Connects to corporate data sources
and sends data to Microsoft cloud
services through a secure channel
(Service Bus).
Corporate Data Sources
The Gateway can connect to
a variety of data sources.
Secure Credential Store
All credentials used by the
gateway are stored on-premises.
Encrypted backup of credentials
can also be stored in the cloud
to enable business continuity
scenarios.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/gateway

17. Data Refresh from Power BI Sites
Personal Data
Gateway
Data Sources in PBI
Portal
Gateway
Cloud Service
(2) Connects to Gateway
Cloud Service
(3) Checks whether user
is authorized to perform
a refresh
(4) Sends command (SQL
statement, connection
string) to onpremise
Gateway
(5) Sends SQL to
SQL Server
(6) Return Results
(7) Compress, chunk
and return the data
(8) Returns data to Excel
Workbook

18. Power BI Gateway
Download and
install
Select a server
or workstation
machine that
never shuts
down
Configure
User(s) that
can run as a
service AND
connect to the
data sources
with read only
privileges

19. Role of the IT Admin in Power BI
• Enabler of Self Service BI
• Varying levels of control across data sources,
departments
• Oversight and monitoring of cloud data access
• Ability to make corporate data sources easier to
discover, and easier to access

20. Power BI – Conceptual Architecture
Power BI Portal
Corporate
Data Sources
IT Admin
Corporate
Data Catalog
Power BI
Admin Center
Data Management
Portal
SPO team sites,
BI Sites, Q&A
Cloud Data
Sources
Public
Data Catalog
Data Steward IW
(Author)
IW
(Consumer)
Manage Data
Publish raw
data
sources or
expose
them as
OData
feeds
Publish queries
Data Refresh
Data Refresh
Power Query
Power Pivot
Power View
Power Map
Publish reports &
create featured
questions, configure
scheduled refresh
Import data,
Publish queries
Excel,
Tablet/Mobile
,
Browser –
Silverlight,
HTML5
Consume interactive
reports, ask
questions
Configure
Import Data
Import Data
Import Data
Import Data
Public Cloud
Data Sources
Index
P/E Data
Management
Gateway

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