Bringing your data to life using Power BI - SharePoint Saturday London 2016

1. Bringing your data to life using Power BI
London
SharePoint Saturday
09 July 2016
#spslondon @SPS_London
Chirag Patel @techChirag

2. Thanks to the Sponsors!

3. About
Chirag
• SharePoint Installation & Configurations
• SharePoint Upgrade & Migrations
• Office 365 Migrations
• SharePoint Business Solutions
• Design & Implement Intranets
• SharePoint Workflows and Forms
• Project Online Implementations
• SQL Reporting Services & Power BI
• SQL Database Design
techChirag.com
@techChirag
chirag@patelconsulting.co.uk

4. Session Overview
Power BI Service
Dashboard Anatomy
Workspace & Office 365 Groups

5. Power BI Mechanics
Business Analysis Tools
Excel
Power BI Desktop
On-Premises Data
SQL Server Databases
SQL Server Analysis Services
Other Data Sources
Microsoft Cloud
Power BI Service
Microsoft Cloud
Office 365
Azure Data Services
Other Services
Non-Microsoft
Cloud
SaaS
Web Browser
Mobile Apps
iOS
Android
Windows

6. Power BI – What?
Power BI Desktop (FREE)
• Data Capacity 1GB/user
• Scheduled Refresh Daily
• Content Authoring
• More advanced tool than
Power BI Pro
• Combines Power Query, Power
Pivot and Power View
Power BI Pro (£6.20 per month)
• Data Capacity 10GB/user
• Scheduled Refresh Hourly
• Access on-premises data via
data connectivity gateways
• Office 365 Groups integration
• Organisational content packs

7. Power BI Approach
Connect easily
to various data
sources
Data > Report >
Dashboard
Add features
• Custom questions
• Videos, other web
content
Build & Distribute
Organisation
packs

8. Power BI: Get Data & Services - DEMO

9. Publish to Power BI

10. My Workspace & Office 365 GroupsOffice365Group
• Conversations
• Calendar
• Files
• Notebook
• Connectors
Power BI Artefacts
 Dataset per workspace
 Data refresh per workspace
 Co-create artefacts in O365 Group
 Manage access per workspace
 Distribute content as Group entity
My Workspace

11. Dashboard Tiles
Tiles
Report Tile
Direct or Live
Connection
Cloud Model
Reporting
Services
Excel Tiles
Excel Charts
and Visuals
Excel Ranges
Q&A and
Insights
Widgets
Text
Video &
Images
Web
Tile Actions
 Focus - Maximise
 Navigate to source or custom URL
 Export tile data to .csv
 Scope Insights
 Alerting

12. Power BI – Dashboard DEMO

13. Power BI – Quick Insights DEMO

14. Power BI – Asking the big ask!

15. Power BI – Pin tiles to dashboard

16. Power BI Publisher for Excel - DEMO

17. Power BI – Featured Questions - DEMO

18. Power BI Mobile App

19. Useful Resources
• Power BI Governance and Deployment Approaches
http://techchir.ag/29ohgIx
• Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI – Free Course
http://techchir.ag/29xDlaD
• Good Power BI Documentation
http://techchir.ag/29DjbOK
• Custom Visuals from Power BI community
http://techchir.ag/29uutAV
• Guy in a Cube
http://techchir.ag/29xsCQc
• Free Power BI ebook
http://techchir.ag/29OPiuD

20. slideshare.com/techchirag

21. Thank You!