A walkthrough fo the possebilities with Power BI 2.0 which is currently available in public preview. I will go through the latest functions and give and overview of the tools included in the application combined with a demo of the designer and Power Query tool. These slides do also cover Datazen - Microfts latest Business Intelligence Acquisition which now enables them to deliver on-premise mobile bi.

1. Power BI 2.0
MsBIP #28
28. april 2015

2. Who am i?
Bent Nissen Pedersen
• bnp@kapacity.dk
• Twitter @Bent_N_pedersen
• Senior BI Consultant at Kapacity
Blog
• http://biblog.dk

3. Agenda
Power BI as is
Power BI 2.0
Licensing
Datazen
News and informations
• Blogs
• Twitter

4. Power Pivot
Combination of Excel & SSAS
•5 years old
•Dimensions and cubes is replaced by tables
•MDX is replaced with DAX
•Excel-functions becomes part of DAX
•From Harddrive based to MEMORY-based

5. Power View
Combination of Excel and SSRS
• Approx. 4 years old
• Modern visulization
• Not a fullblown replacement of Reporting Services
• Was original created in Silverlight

6. Power query
Self-service ETL
• Formerly known as data explorer
• Officially realeased 1½ year ago
•Based on M

7. Power Map
Formerly know as project GeoFlow
• Approx. 2 years old
• 3D data visulization
•Plot data with Bing Maps

8. Licensing
Power BI to Office 365
MS Excel 2013 Professional Plus
Addon to existing Office 365 subscription
Share-Point online (to share)
• Data-refresh
• Size issues
• Cloud

9. Power BI 2.0
Dashboard Designer release in december
• Apps which can be installed on windows
• Not a port of excel
• Many new sources
• API
Tools still a part of Excel
• Time-to-market
• Power Query integrated in Excel 2016

10. New functionality
Applications to mobile devices
• Iphone
• Ipad
• Windows Phone
Power Pivot
• 1-1 relations
• Many-to-Many relations
• Hierarchies

11. Power BI API
Allows creation of customer data connectors (Future release)
Create, Push and delete data
Define a series of packaged reports created when you connecto
to a data source

12. Latest (Last week)
New licensingsmodel
OData 4.0 support
Alternative Windows Credentails
Excel 2016 (Native functionality)
Excel 2016 support for undo/redo
Power Query in Excel to get regularly updates

13. Demo

14. Licensing
Availability
Power BI Pro
Pris Free $9,99
Power BI Pro
Data Capacity 1 GB/user 10 GB/user
Data Refresh
Power BI Pro
Scheduled Data Refresh Daily Hourly
Support for Streaming Data 10K rows/hour 1M rows/hour
Live interactive connectivity to data sources ●
Data Management Gateway ●
Data Refresh
Power BI Pro
Share refreshable team dashboards and
reports
●
Create and publish customized content
packs
●
Use of Active Directory groups for sharing &
managing access control
●
Shared data queries through the Data
Catalog
●

15. Datazen
Microsoft On-Premise BI

16. What just happened?
Datazen
As such, it will complement Power
BI, Microsoft's cloud-based
business analytics service.
Our team will continue to develop
and evolve the product. We have an
exciting roadmap and are really
looking forward to bringing new
features to market.
Microsoft
Datazen technology and
solutions will complement
Power BI

17. Content elements
KPI’s Dashboards

18. Native app for all platforms

19. Extensive Drill-Downs and Drill-Throughs
Another Datazen dashboard
To a custom URL

20. Simple Publishing
Windows publisher
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows 7 (beta)
Fit layout to device
• Landscape
• Portait
• Mobil phone

21. Application Features

22. Data sources
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Azure
Microsoft SharePoint Lists
Excel documents in network shares
Generic Excel Web Service
Generic OleDB Data source
Generic ODBC data sources
OData

23. Data flow
Server-side caching
Application-side caching
Online mode

24. Enterprise infrastructure
Active Directory authentication
Active Directory Federation
Services (ADFS) authentication
Granular permissions controls for
all dashboards and data views
Secure device-server
communication through SSL
Data encryption at rest on
Datazen Server
Data encryption on the client in
case of device loss
PIN lock screens in all mobile
client

25. Getting started
Premium
SQL Server Enterprise Edition
customers with version 2008
or later and Software
Assurance
Download Datzen
https://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-
editions/sql-server-enterprise.aspx
Freemium
Use the designer locally
without all the fancy features
and publishing

26. Demo

27. Henvisninger og links
Officielt site
• http://www.powerbi.com
Power BI API
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/power
bi
Support
• http://support.powerbi.com/know
ledgebase
Chris Webb
• https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com
Datazen
• http://www.datazen.com