Power BIPower Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map

Stéphane FréchetteThursday Septembre 19, 2013

Who am I?

My name is Stéphane Fréchette

I’m a Database & Business Intelligence Professional and Founder | CEO of I have a passion for architecting, designing and building solutions that matter.

Self proclaimed Open Data Hacker/Advocate I founded Gatineau Ouverte a citizen led initiative which aims to promote open access to civic data of the city of Gatineau.

Twitter: @sfrechetteBlog: stephanefrechette.comEmail: stephanefrechette@ukubu.com

Session Outline

• Microsoft Business Intelligence (The Stack)• Self-Service Business Intelligence in Excel – Power BI• Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View, Power Map• Demos

• Power BI for Office 365• Power BI Sites• Data Management• Power BI for Mobile

• Summary• Resources

Analysis Services

Reporting Services

Integration Services

Master Data Services

SharePointCollaboration

Excel Workbooks

Power Pivot Applications

SharePointDashboards &

Scorecards

Data QualityServices

ODataFeeds

Line of Business Applications

Hadoop Big Data

Microsoft Business Intelligence

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Access

Clean

Mash-up

Explore

Visualize

Share

What Do Users want to Do?

Self-Service Business Intelligence

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Access

Clean

Mash-up

Explore

Visualize

Share

Excel 2013: Complete and Powerful Self-Service BI Tool

Self-Service Business Intelligence in Excel 2013

Report creator

Data steward

Report consumer

Self-Service BI in Excel 2013

• Excel delivers powerful, intuitive capabilities for self-service BI

Power Query (codename Data Explorer) Power Pivot (previously PowerPivot) Power View Power Map (codename GeoFlow)

(That’s A Lot of Power!)

Power Query

Power Query Preview for Excel is an add-in that enhances the self-service Business Intelligence experience in Excel by simplifying data discovery and access.

Enable self-service data discovery, query, transformation and mashup experiences for Information Workers, via Excel and Power Pivot

• Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources, spanning volume as well as variety of data.

• Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries over any data source, any size.

• Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources.• Joins across different data sources; ability to create custom views over data that can then

be shared with team/department.

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Mashup largevolumes of data from various sources

Perform rapid data analysis with extreme performance

Rapidly create compelling analytical applications

Access and mashup data from virtually any source to create powerful reports

Power Pivot

Power Pivot

• Power Pivot enriches Excel by compressing storage and provide fast querying and reporting from tabular data• xVelocity in-memory analytics engine (formerly VertiPaq)• Highlights;• Load data from a variety of sources• Extremely large volumes can be stored• Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)• Can be enriched with Hierarchies, KPIs, Perspectives and Reporting metadata

• First introduced as an add-in with SQL Server 2008 R2

Power Pivot – Key New Features

• No longer requires separate install add-in• Basic data model functionality now built in Excel 2013• Calculated fields (‘Measures’) created automatically when field is numeric• In-memory analytics engine native to Excel • Excel and PowerPivot now have a single, uniform Field List• Data categorization and suggestions from DataMarket• Support for more languages (40 languages)• Support for larger file sizes in 64-bit Excel (*unlimited)

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Visually discover and share insight across all levels of the organization

Perform rapid visual data exploration

Easily create interactive visualizations

Effortlessly present and share reports

Power View

Power View

• Power View provides an interactive data exploration, visualization and presentation experience• Strong visual design experience (WYSIWYG)• Rich meta-driven interactions

• First introduced with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services in SharePoint Mode (BI and Enterprise editions)

• Now part of Excel 2013 (need to enable add-in)• Power View sheets can be added to Workbook• Can be based on a Workbook Data Model, or SSAS Tabular Data Model,

*SSAS Multidimensional Model (SQL Server 2012 SP1 CTP3)

• Requires Silverlight 5 to be installed

Power View – Key New Features

• Power View sheets can connect to different data models in one workbook• Modify the internal Data Model without leaving the Power View sheet• Power View in Excel Services, Excel Web App and Office 365• SharePoint Server

• Pie charts• Maps• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)• Hierarchies• Drill up and drill down• Hyperlinks

Power Map

Power Map Preview for Excel 2013 allows you to plot geographic and temporal data visually, analyze that data in 3D, and create interactive tours to share with others.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38395*Requires Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office 365 ProPlus.

Demos

Power BI for Office 365

• Power BI Sites • Quickly create a collaboration hub to share workbooks. Create, and enable users to

take full advantage of the Power BI for Office 365 collection of online offerings. • A Visual Home for Workbooks

• Large Workbooks – up to 250MB• Sites without Power BI are limited to 10MB

• Share Your Work• Built-in from the beginning• Share Power Query (queries)

• Manage Data• Track and analyze share queries and data sets

• Go anywhere with the Power BI App

Demos

Summary

Self-service BI in Excel, Power BI provides the tools you need to find data, shape and filter it how you want, model it, and visualize it.

Resources

• Power BI for Office 365 https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/power-bi-FX104080667.aspxRegister and read the Power BI – Getting Started Guide

• PowerPivotPro http://www.powerpivotpro.com/• Analysis Services & PowerPivot Blog (MSDN) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/• Kasper de Jonge PowerPivot Blog http://www.powerpivotblog.nl/• Chris Webb’s BI Blog https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/category/powerpivot/• SQLBI – Marco Russo http://www.sqlbi.com/• PowerPivot-info.com http://powerpivot-info.com/

What Questions Do You Have?

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