BUSINESS ANALYTICS WEBINAR MARATHON

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1 BUSINESS ANALYTICS WEBINAR MARATHON DECEMBER 10 Moving From Excel to PowerBI.com A Business Analyst's Perspective Matt Allington ExceleratorBI.com.au

2 May 2-4, San Jose, California Get the essential business and data analytics skills and technologies to stay ahead of the curve Uncover new information and value to remain competitive 4 tracks designed to follow the Analyst s Journey Register at passbaconference.com today! (Use discount code BAMARATHON by Jan 1 for $100 off registration)

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4 Matt Allington 25 year career at Coca-Cola working in both Sales and Information Technology Now running a Power Pivot start up consultancy in Australia Self Service BI Consulting Power Pivot/Power BI Training Blogger Author of newly released book Learn to Write 4

5 Why Power BI is so Great Power BI Is self service BI Is SSAS An evolution and A revolution Has cloud & desktop versions Has an open visualization development framework Has weekly and monthly updates What makes it so great is Accessible to business users Great user experience Enormous capacity Blistering performance It is Microsoft - familiar and robust Build locally, share easily Community growth/speed Rapid continuous improvement 5

6 Why Self Service BI is Such a Game Changer The Old BI Way The Self Service BI Way BA documents the requirements IT Interprets, prioritizes, select/design BA thinks through requirements Solution doesn t meet needs IT builds and delivers Solution does meet needs BA gets more requests than ever before BA builds solution in Power BI BA gives up, builds own solution in Excel BA exports data to Excel for further analysis BA shares the solution - people are amazed BA learns by doing and improves the solution 6

7 Differences Between Excel and Power BI A Business Analyst s Perspective Excel Very familiar spreadsheet paradigm Power Pivot has multiple versions 2010 / 2013 / 2016 Various levels of polish Difficult to share large files Limited to 32 bit in some companies. Power BI Unfamiliar reporting DB paradigm All in 1 package written from scratch Power Query Power Pivot Power BI - Data Acquisition - Data Modelling - Data Visualisation Easy to share large files (online) You can install 64bit Power BI even if you only have 32 bit Excel.

8 Analysis & Reporting that is Perfect for Power BI Any reporting over tables of data that need aggregating and/or summarizing For reporting where you are currently Writing VLOOKUP (or INDEX/MATCH) Spending repetitive manual hours refreshing your traditional spreadsheets with new data When you can t get help from IT due to Their capacity to deliver Their inability to meet time horizon The cost of an enterprise strength solution is prohibitive 8

9 BUSINESS ANALYTICS WEBINAR MARATHON DECEMBER 10 Hands on Demo 9

10 Key Points to Take Away The future is here now for those that want to accept the challenge Get your hands dirty and get started Desktop is free and there is a free cloud version too You can t learn to play the game by watching from the side lines Learn to think in tables Columns and rows, not cells of data Take a clean slate approach Don t ask How do I replicate this Excel Workbook in Power BI? Instead you should ask How can I use the available tools to tell my story? Learn to write DAX DAX is a formula language that is accessible to Excel users, but you have to learn it. Make friends with IT Work together for mutual benefit

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