What’s New in Power BI

Unlock your data and get insights!

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Dan English

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@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 v2 Overview

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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

Demo – Power BI Service

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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)

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Data Sources Galore!

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/

Demo – Power BI Desktop

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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/

Demo – Power BI Mobile

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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-

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• Power BI Twitter• @mspowerbi• #PowerBI

Questions

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Thank You!

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