The Brave New World of Power BI and Hybrid Cloud Bhavik.Merchant@nec.com.au 27 th August 2015
Agenda Intro Session Goals Short History Lesson Overview of Power BI Components + Demos Transitioning and Future Functionality Pitfalls & Other Info Q&A
Speaker Introduction Delivery Manager: Analytics, Collaboration & Content at NEC Certified End-to-End Microsoft BI practitioner Trainer Microsoft PTSP Co-organiser of Perth Modern Excel & Power BI User Group page 3
Session Goals Understand landscape prior to Power BI 2.0 See where Office 365 and Azure fit it Learn how to leverage on-premises assets Explore functionality and learn deployment process Understand how to transition Know what to watch out for page 4
A Walk Down Memory Lane Self-Service (2010) Team Enterprise Cloud (2014) Power Map Power Query Q&A Power View Power BI for Office 365 PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 (SQL 2008 R2) PowerPivot for Excel 2010 (Add-in) SSAS Tabular (SQL 2012) PowerPivot in Excel 2013 & SharePoint 2013 page 5
Power BI Represents Further Shifting in Paradigm 2 nd wave Self-service BI 3rd wave End user BI Everyone Analyst to end user 1st wave Technical BI IT to end user page 6
Power BI 2.0 Power BI Desktop Free, thick client Power components integrated in standalone designer Power Query Power Pivot Power View (v3?) Use it to source, cleanse, mashup, enrich, visualise, publish DEMO: Power BI Desktop Intro page 7
End-to-End Demo Scenario Our Yoga Studio I need insights FAST! hot yoga r ed efi ned... Concerned wife needs performance numbers Data required for Analysis - Excel - Azure - Web page 8
Power Query a.k.a Get Data in Power BI Desktop Fetch data from a HUGE variety of sources Transform with point and click, or advanced (M script) DEMO: Getting the data in page 9
Power Pivot a.k.a Modeling in Power BI Desktop In-memory, columnar database engine Add calculated columns, calculated measures Relate disparate data sets DEMO: Connecting up and adding value page 10
Power View a.k.a Report in Power BI Desktop MUCH improved from Excel/SharePoint/Office 365 Easier controls, more formatting options, more visuals DEMO: Obligatory eye candy page 11
Power BI Cloud Service Login via powerbi.com, or use App Launcher in Office 365 Lets business users leverage published data Create independent cloud hosted reports Dashboards let us pin individual components, then drill Create Group Workspaces, share with others DEMO: Publishing to Power BI page 12
Q & A Ask questions in natural language Machine learning reads fields, data and applies semantics Then customise and pin result DEMO: Quick Insights page 13
Other Features The Personal Gateway Allows scheduled refresh (on-prem sources) Windows service on always on computer creates bridge Uses Azure Service Bus No firewall port opening Not required for online sources DEMO: Refresh from on-prem to cloud page 14
Other Features Content Packs Organisational Bundle a set of visuals, data etc and publish. Leverages Office 365 Groups Prebuilt Dynamics CRM, SQL Database Auditing, SalesForce, Google ang more page 15
Other Features Native Mobile Apps Windows, Android, ios DEMO: Mobile Experience page 16
Other Features Connect to SSAS On-Prem Install Power BI SSAS Connector on Tabular Server Similar to personal gateway Live connections page 17
But, I LOVE Excel! Transitioning Still getting much love Excel 2016 has all Power BI components natively integrated You can import Excel PowerPivot models into Power BI Desktop Model, data sheets, Power View work. Excel pivot table reports don t. Nice improvements: non destructive editing, field search What will this mean for feature parity? page 18
Many Architectural Options this is a subset! PowerPivot/Power BI Structured Data SharePoint External (Web, Odata, JSON etc) Spreadsheets SSAS Tabular On Premises Most sources can be refreshed directly in Power BI Cloud (not shown) page 19
Tiers and Pricing Free Pro ($12.70 user/month) Data Volume 1GB Data per user 10GB Data per user Refresh Daily, 10k rows/hr Hourly, 1M rows/hr Live Source Interactive - Yes Gateway Support - Yes Office 365 Group share - Yes Org. Content Packs - Yes Security via AD Groups - Yes (coming) Data Catalog use - Yes (redir. to old version) page 20
Pitfalls, Gaps, Other Info Still no Power Map anywhere but Excel Cant create hierarchies or KPIs in Power BI Desktop.. yet Excel Import fails on dummy tables SQL Azure refresh can fail, but is workaround Gateways rely on ADFS same user in Power BI and On-prem Only 1 Personal gateway at a time Power BI for Office 365 is around till 31 Dec. 2015 page 21
Wrapping Up and Question Time Thanks for your valuable time! Thanks to NEC for pizza sponsorship Go TRY IT, and do come chat to me page 22