The Brave New World of

Power BI and Hybrid Cloud

Bhavik.Merchant@nec.com.au

27th August 2015

• Intro

• Session Goals

• Short History Lesson

• Overview of Power BI Components + Demos

• Transitioning and Future Functionality

• Pitfalls & Other Info

• Q&A

Agenda

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• 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

Speaker Introduction

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• 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

Session Goals

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A Walk Down Memory Lane…

Self-Service (2010) Team Enterprise Cloud (2014)

Power View

Power QueryPower Map

PowerPivot for Excel 2010 (Add-in)

PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010(SQL 2008 R2)

SSAS Tabular (SQL 2012)

PowerPivot in Excel 2013

& SharePoint 2013

Power BI for Office 365

Q&A

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Power BI Represents Further Shifting in Paradigm

Everyone

Analyst to end user

IT to end user

2nd wave

Self-service BI

1st wave

Technical BI

3rd wave

End user BI

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• 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

Power BI 2.0 – Power BI Desktop

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• Our Yoga Studio

• Concerned wife

needs

performance

numbers

End-to-End Demo Scenario

hot yoga r edefi ned ...

I need insights… FAST!

Data required for Analysis

- Excel

- Azure

- Web

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• 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

Power Query

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• 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

Power Pivot

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• 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

Power View

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• 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

Power BI Cloud Service

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• Ask questions in natural language

• Machine learning reads fields, data and applies semantics

• Then customise and pin result

• DEMO: Quick Insights

Q & A

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• 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

Other Features – The Personal Gateway

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• Organisational

• Bundle a set of visuals, data etc and publish. Leverages Office 365 Groups

• Prebuilt

• Dynamics CRM, SQL Database Auditing, SalesForce, Google ang more…

Other Features – Content Packs

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• Windows, Android, iOS

• DEMO: Mobile Experience

Other Features – Native Mobile Apps

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• Install “Power BI SSAS Connector” on Tabular Server

• Similar to personal gateway

• Live connections

Other Features – Connect to SSAS On-Prem

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• 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?

But, I LOVE Excel! Transitioning…

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Many Architectural Options… this is a subset!

On Premises

SharePoint

SSAS Tabular

Structured Data

External (Web, Odata,

JSON etc)

PowerPivot/Power BI

Spreadsheets

Most sources can be refreshed directly in Power BI Cloud (not shown)

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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)

Tiers and Pricing

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• 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

Pitfalls, Gaps, Other Info

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• Thanks for your valuable time!

• Thanks to NEC for pizza sponsorship

• Go TRY IT, and do come chat to me

Wrapping Up and Question Time