Power BI Q&A: Take your data analysis to the next level Are you bored on spending your days creating reports for the business users? Do you dream on the day the user will simple use a search box and ask what they want and the magic will happen and the report will show up on their screen? Wait no more, this day is today! Let's see on this session how to use this powerful new tool to transform our BI solution in a true self-service BI Session Level: Beginner

1. Power BI Q&A: Take your data analysis to the next level
Felipe Ferreira

2. Thanks to Our Sponsors!
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3. Who am I?
Felipe Ferreira
SQL Server Consultant at Pythian, SQL Server MVP, Friends of RedGate, speaker, nerd, skydiver, a little crazy.. that's me :)
Twitter: @SQLBoy
Email: ferreira@pythian.com
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4. Agenda
What’s our problem today
What is Power BI
What is Power BI Q&A
Demos

5. Current Scenario
Knowledge is Power –Francis Bacon, 16thcentury
User has no idea of what they want
IT don’t have people/time to deliver what they need

6. Current Scenario
When we want to find something:

7. Current Scenario
When we develop
an app for the
customer to find
something:

8. And what is this Power BI thing?
A cool marketing name to talk about a set of different products:

9. POWER QUERY
“Self-service ETL”
Allow simple and
easy data
manipulation and
transformation

10. POWER PIVOT
“Self-service Data analysis”
Allow in-memory
Data modeling and
analysis

11. POWER MAP
“Self-service awesome interactive visualization”
Maps
Custom maps

12. POWER VIEW
“Self-service awesome interactive visualization again”

13. POWER BI SITE
“Self-service
collaboration site”

14. POWER BI Mobile Apps
Windows 8 App
Windows RT App
Apple iOS Apps (soon)
Other platforms can use the preview HTML5 version of the power bi power view

15. And FINALLY…. Power Q&A!
Natural language query system
Reads and interpret your data
Allow a google/bingstyle report generation style
Enough of text… I WANT TO SEE IT!

16. DEMOS

17. Thank You
For attending this session
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