Power BI Overview

Gal Vekselman

January 9th, 2018

Gartner Magic Quadrant

2014 2015 2016 2017

Tableau

Power BI

Qlik

First, some History

Project

“Gemini”

2009

2009

Power

Pivot

Power

Pivot began

to gain

traction

2010

2012

Power

View

Data

Explorer

2012

2012

Power

Query

2015

Microsoft

announced a new

Power BI service

Microsoft

announced

Power BI Desktop

Power BI Tools

• Use Query functionality to connect to data

from a variety of sources

• Transform data to fit your needs using

intuitive UI

• Build semantic layer: Ability to automatically

find related tables when connecting to

database sources

• Easily create measures using DAX

language

• Add calculated columns to tables

• Define hierarchies

• Explore data in a variety of ways and across

multiple visualizations

• Select, transform and mashup data via a

freeform, drag-and-drop canvas

• Visualize data and author reports

• Change color, format and customize

Prepare Build Explore\Report

Power BI

Power Query Power Pivot Power View

Prepare

Power BI Ecosystem

• Power BI

• SQL

• SSIS

• Custom API

• R Language

Visualize

Model

• Power BI

• SSAS

• Excel Power Pivot

• Power BI

• SSRS

• D3

• Excel

• Custom Visuals

Share

• Power BI

• Power BI Report Server

• Power BI Premium

• Power BI Mobile

• Power BI Embedded

• Connectors

• Power Apps

• Microsoft Flow

It’s a New BI World Out there

IT to end user

Analyst to end user

Everyone

3rd waveEnd user BI

1st waveCorporate BI

2nd waveSelf-service BI

IT Governance – Build Enterprise Business Models, Measures and Logic

Analyst and Power User querying BI

models

IT, analysts, managers

interact with the data

For Analysts

Who is being Empowered?

Quickly go from data to insight to action. Connect to hundreds of sources,

prep data with ease, and create beautiful reports all in minutes

• Extract your data with APIs

• Enrich your data with analytics tools

• Out of the box machine learning

For IT

For Business Users

Always be in the known. View dashboards on the web or on your phone,

get alerts when data changes, and drill into details

• Consume data anywhere any time

• Take decisions in a click

• Define alerts

Simplify management, achieve compliance, and keep data secure while

giving people access to the reports they need

• Manage permissions

• Monitor reports and measures usage

For Developers

Bring your apps to life with data. Easily embed interactive data visuals and

deliver compelling reports

• Build your own custom visual using D3

• Embed dashboard in applications

Beyond BI: From Hindsight to Foresight

Descriptive

Analytics

Diagnostic

Analytics

Predictive

Analytics

Prescriptive

Analytics

What

happened?

Why did it

happen?

What will

happen?

How can we make

it happen?

POWER BI Likes and Dislikes

▪ Rapid release cycles

▪ Microsoft office look and feel

▪ Q&A

▪ Bookmarks

▪ Quick insights

▪ Alerts

▪ Can be stored on local hardware

▪ Analyze in excel

▪ Custom connectors and visuals

▪ Usage metric report

▪ DAX

▪ DMV

▪ No Global Filters

▪ Look and feel when hovering an object

▪ No traditional Pivot Table

▪ No CRUD

▪ Real time collaboration environment

▪ In memory technology – data latency

Likes Dislikes

Appendix

Pricing

Author Share and collaborate Scale large deployments

Power BI Desktop Power BI Pro Power BI Premium

Free 9.99$ user/month Capacity Pricing node/month

• Connect to hundreds of data sources

• Clean and prepare data using visual tools

• Analyze and build stunning reports with custom visualizations

• Publish to the Power BI service

• Embed in public websites

• Build dashboards that deliver a 360-degree, real-time view of the business

• Keep data up-to-date automatically, including on-premises sources

• Collaborate on shared data

• Audit and govern how data is accessed and used

Starting 5,000 a month

Power BI Report Server

Enterprise license

Data

Generation

Storage

Data

Processing

Data Distribution

Better Together!

Excel WorkbookXLSX

Power Query

Power Pivot

Pivot tables

Charts

Formulas

Power BI Desktop PBIX

ETL

MODEL

Dashboards

Drill throw

Custom Visuals

SSRS

Cube

Store Proc

Paginated

Reports

Data Driven Document

D3

D3 libraries

Java Script base

Interactive Chart

Out-of-the-box

visuals

Analytical reportsInteractive

Reports

Paginated

Reports

Reporting Ecosystem

Interactive

Reports

Useful links

• First Experience Using Power BI Desktop

• Power BI General Availability: Features

• Introduction to Power BI

• Excel to Power BI webinar

• Custom Power BI Visualizations