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Dan English
http://denglishbi.wordpress.com
@denglishbi
• Microsoft Data Platform MVP
• Microsoft BI User Group MN
Leadership Team Member
• Chapter Leader for PASS BA VC
• Published Author / Contributing Editor
- Power BI v2 Overview
- Power BI Service
- Power BI Desktop
- Power BI for Mobile
- Questions
Agenda
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Audience Poll
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• How many IT Professionals?
• How many Business/Information Workers?
• How many are using Power BI features in Excel?
• How many are using Office 2016?
• How many have used Power BI Desktop?
• How Many are using the Power BI Service?
Gartner Magic Quadrant
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http://www.fredrikhedenstrom.com/2016/02/16/gartners-bi-magic-quadrant-visualized-in-power-bi/
Why Microsoft for your business
intelligence and analytics platforms?
Industry analysts have taken note of
our efforts and we are excited to share Gartner has positioned
Microsoft as a Leader, for the ninth
consecutive year, in the Magic
Quadrant for Business
Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. For the first time,
Microsoft is placed furthest in vision
within the Leaders quadrant.https://info.microsoft.com/CO-PowerBI-CNTNT-FY16-05Feb-PowerBIGartnerMQ_Registration.html?wt.mc_id=US_CE_BI_OO_MS_NONE
What Happened Since Last June?
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Power BI Service
• No more Excel, SharePoint, or
Office 365 dependencies
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Hybrid Solution• on-premise or cloud data sources
• HTML5 Reports and Dashboards• Mobile app support too
• Real-time and streaming data
source support & APIs
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What’s New Power BI Service• Ability to add custom URLs to Tiles
• New report canvas (with Q&A too)
• Visualizations, Filters, and Fields panes
• Organizational Content Packs
• Lots of new 3rd Party Content Packs• New Samples
• Drill support for Power BI Reports
• Choose which dashboard to pin items to or create a new one
• Add shapes, textbox, widgets
• Full screen, fit to screen, in-focus mode (pop-out)• See last refresh for tiles, ability to refresh as well
• Duplicate report page or dashboard
• Quick Insights
• Power BI Integration with Cortana
• Change visual interactions• Pin Live Report Pages to Dashboard
• Export Tile and Report Data
• Generate QR Codes
• Print Dashboards
• Publish to Web and ability to Share Outside Organization© 2016 Constellation. All rights reserved.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/powerbi-service-whats-new/
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Custom Visuals• Extend Power BI with more high
quality data visualizations developed
by Microsoft and the Community
• Build visuals with D3, WebGL,
Canvas, or SVG
• Power BI Developer Center
• https://powerbi.microsoft.com/de
velopers
• Project available on GitHub• https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerB
I-visuals
• Playground area to test visuals• http://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-
visuals/playground/index.html
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Power BI Desktop
• Download application (Free)• Decoupled from Excel• Training Resources
• Videos• Tutorials• Forums• Power BI Blog• Community
• Provides• Query (Power Query)
• Model (Power Pivot)
• Report (Power View)
• Data sources galore• Including Live Connections
• Relationships• Cross filter (bidirectional)
What’s New Power BI Desktop• New Data View & Relationships views
• Publish Directly to PowerBI.com
• Import Excel Power BI artifacts – Data Model, Power Queries, Reports
• Add shapes, textbox, images, and background image
• Drill Up/Down on charts• Visualizations, Fields panes (includes Search)
• Add Custom Visuals
• Modeling within Fields pane (easy rename)
• Enable Preview Features
• Lots of Formatting options• Visual Interactions
• Play Axis for Scatter Chart
• Horizontal Slicers
• Control Z-Order
• Duplicate Pages• Improved Tooltips
• Format Painter
• R Integration
• Create Measures in DirectQuery mode
• Add borders to visuals© 2016 Constellation. All rights reserved.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-latest-update/
© 2016 Constellation. All rights reserved.
Power BI for Mobile
• Download for iOS, Android, Windows• iPad and iPhone• Windows• Android Phone
• HTML5• Ability to
• add annotations• share insights• favorites
• Data Alerts (iPhone)• QR Scanner
What’s New Power BI Mobile• Support for Android Phone
• Windows 10 Universal App
• Support for group workspaces
• New Navigation
• Data Alerts (iPhone)• Notifications
• iPhone – landscape mode for dashboards
• Data Labels in charts
• QR code scanner
• SQL 2016 SSRS and Mobile Report support (iPhone and iPad)• R tile and web widget support
• Access cached data (no longer expires)
• Offline indicators
• Real-time data support
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https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/powerbi-mobile-whats-new-in-the-mobile-apps/
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Resources• Power BI site
• http://powerbi.com
• Power BI Team Blog• http://powerbi.com/blog
• Power BI YouTube• https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi/playlists
• edX Course – Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI• https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-
power-bi-microsoft-dat207x-0
• Power BI Twitter• @mspowerbi• #PowerBI
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