This document discusses Microsoft's Power BI tools. It notes the challenges of unlocking data insights, including integration with existing tools, security and manageability issues, and lack of skills. It then outlines the evolution of business intelligence from niche startups to corporate BI to self-service BI. The rest of the document focuses on Power BI's powerful yet familiar tools for reporting, dashboards, and analysis across devices and environments. It emphasizes empowering users with self-service capabilities in Excel and Office 365 while also providing enterprise-grade governance and control. Advanced analytic tools are available for data scientists and business analysts. The conclusion promotes Power BI's position as a leader in business intelligence and analytics with a complete, consistent data platform.

1. Enabling Familiar, Powerful Data
Insights with Power BI
David J. Rosenthal
CEO, Atidan
March 24, 2014 – Microsoft MTC Charlotte, NC

2. Source: Big Data & CIO Adoption Quantitative Research, Sept 2012, Microsoft
Challenges to unlocking data
insights
Integration with
existing tools
41%
Security &
manageability
37%
Lack of skills
& knowledge
59%
Connected
devices per adult
4.3

3. Self-service BICorporate BI
Evolution of BI

4. Evolution of BI
Niche Startups
Self-service BICorporate BI

5. 15 years of innovation

6. Powerful, familiar BI tools for
everyone

7. Powerful, familiar BI tools for
everyone

8. Data Quality
Master Data
Data
Integration
Powerful, integrated BI tools for
IT professionals
Reporting
Dashboards
Analysis

9. Connect your data across
premises, cloud, and devices

11. Powerful, familiar BI tools for
everyone

12. Q&A
Self-service BI
The familiarity of Office and the power of the
cloud

13. Empower users with self service
in Excel

14. Connect and collaborate in
Office 365
Q&A

15. Enterprise grade governance
and control
• Monitor self-service BI content creation
and usage.
• Analyze data usage patterns across the
organization with the Data Catalog.
• Discovery and Risk Assessment of
spreadsheets across the organization.
• Nonintrusive auditing of changes made to
Excel Spreadsheets.

17. Give people powerful, familiar
BI tools
Demo

18. Powerful, familiar BI tools for
everyone

19. Advanced analytic tools for
data scientists
• Advanced descriptive analytics
(e.g. clustering algorithm in SQL Server
Analysis Services)
• Predictive analytics
(Neural Nets, Regression, Decision Tree,
Time Series, Naïve Bayes algorithms
in SQL Server Analysis Services)
• Further advanced analytics
(Semantic Search and Geospatial Data
and functions in SQL Server 2012)
• Big Data analytics
(Hadoop integration)

20. Data mining add-in for business
analysts
• Ease of use
• Rich data mining
• Scalable

22. Leader in business intelligence
and analytics

23. The
Microsoft
Data
Platform


24. Complete and consistent data platform

25. Call to action
• microsoft@Atidan.com
• 1-215-825-5045 x5001
• Free Power BI Trial!