Office 365 BI Capabilities – Power BI #SPSSTHLM13 Jethro SEGHERS January 25 th , 2014 SharePoint Saturday Stockholm
Jan 15, 2015
Office 365 BI Capabilities – Power BI
#SPSSTHLM13Jethro SEGHERSJanuary 25th, 2014
SharePoint Saturday
Stockholm
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Who am I
Twitter: @jseghersE-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]: http://blog.j-solutions.beBlog: http://www.office365tipoftheday.com
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AGENDA What is B(usiness) I(ntelligence)
BI – The Microsoft Vision
What is Office 365
Tools for BI with Office 365
Demo
Power BI (Preview)
Demo
Q & A
Business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes.
Microsoft’s BI platform
END USER TOOLS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS
Excel PerformancePoint
BI PLATFORM
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Analysis Services
SQL Server DBMS
SQL Server Integration Services
SharePoint Server
DELIVERY
Reports Dashboards Excel Workbooks
AnalyticViews Scorecards Plans
• Outlook and Exchange – Email, Contacts, Calendar• Lync - IM, Presence, Voice, Video• SharePoint Online – one public website and multiple intranet
site collections• My Site – newsfeed, about me, blog, tasks• SkyDrive – personal cloud storage• Offie Web Apps and Client Tools – client Excel, Word, require
higher licensing• Power BI – new! (preview only)
What is Office 365
• Corporate BI vs Self Service BI
• Corporate BI is structured, company driven, slow, not always containing the necessary information
• Self Service BI based on own documents, own data structure, multiple data feeds, private & public
• Self Service BI can consume Corporate data sources.
• Self Service BI can become Corporate BI
BI features evolution
Self Service BI
• Created by End Users
• Combination of difference datasources, formal & informal
• Created via Excel
• Power Pivot
• Power View
• Power Maps
• Power Query
• Publishing via Power BI & Excel Services
Self Service BI
• In short: Creates Cubes in memory
• Integrated in Excel 2013, Add In for Excel 2010
• Up to multiple billion rows
• Multiple different type of data sources available, even local files
• Easy Interface make relationship between Dimensions vs Measures
• Easily to collaborate and share through SharePoint Online
• Only needs Excel Web App to publish
Power Pivot
• Visualization layer in Excel 2013
• Includes basic BI objects, like graphs, charts, filters, slicer, KPI’s, …
• Ideal to create dashboards
• Needs a Data model to work upon, e.g. power pivot, SQL Server, …
• Easily to collaborate and share through SharePoint Online
• Only needs Excel Web App to publish
Power View
• Codename: GeoFlow
• Plots Data on a Globe in a timeframe
• Generates a Interactive “Tour” around the data
• At this time not visualize in Office 365
Power Maps
• Simplifies Data discovery and access
• Find and connect data across a wide variety of sources.
• Merge and shape data sources to match your data analysis requirements or prepare it for further analysis and modeling by tools such as Power Pivot and PowerView.
• Perform data cleansing operations.
• Perform Online Search for data from a large collection of public data sources including Wikipedia tables, a subset of Windows Azure Marketplace, and a subset of Data.gov.
• Only needs Excel Web App to publish
Power Query
• Corporate Driven
• DataWarehouse
• DataMart
• Published in SharePoint On Premises: Performance Point
• Performance Point not available in Office 365
• Publishing in SharePoint Online through Excel Web Apps
Corporate BI
Self Service BI
Power BI For Excel
• Only in preview, some features only works with the sample data
• Easy to write, understand Query Language
• Visualization of Power View
• Data Management Gateway
• Power BI Admin
• Data Steward
• Windows 8 App
Power BI in Office 365
Using the O365 Power BI Site
• Manage gateways and data sources• View system health and logs• Manage co-administrators
Power BI Admin
Power BI Demo
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