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Integrating SSRS with SharePoint

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Application Development

Dec 6 12:00pm (GMT-07:00)

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Virtualization Q&A with Brent Ozar

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What is Power BI?

Self Service BI with the familiarity of Office and the power of
the cloud

A BI portal for sharing workbooks and reports with colleagues.

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What is self-service BI?

End users designing and deploying their own reports and
analysis inside a tool that is familiar (Excel).

Power Q & A Demo

Note: Q&A works with sample data only at this time

Power Q&A
Uses natural language query technology to provide you with
immediate answers in the form of interactive charts and
graphs based on the questions you type into the speech
bubble.
Cloud only feature for now but if successful will make it into
On Prem versions of the software.

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Power BI for Office 365

Insights and visualizations are better when shared. Power BI excels
at making insights available to everyone who should see them,
securing those reports, and enabling them to be seen from
anywhere in the world:
Data Management when you create a great query in Excel, you
can share it with others, manage its availability, and see how
much it gets used. With the data management features of Power
BI, not only can you share your own query-creating genius, you
can find other queries easily, too. Youre collaborating from within
Excel, and sharing your efforts online. Its powerful.
Power BI for Mobile See the latest reports posted to your
Power BI site from a rich, immersive app on your mobile device.
Power BI Sites this is the heart of your collaborative Power BI
experience. Quickly create collaborative Power BI sites for your
team to share and view reports. Larger workbook viewing is also
supported (up to 250MB) so that users can view and interact with
larger workbooks through the browser.
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Power BI sites for Office 365

Power BI for Office 365 offers the Power BI sites application,
which transforms a SharePoint Online site into a more robust,
dynamic location to share and find Excel workbooks and
provides a visual, interactive view tailored to BI. It also gives
you easy access to other BI features available in Power BI for
Office 365.

The Power BI sites app is available when you subscribe to

Power BI for Office 365 Preview. You can apply it to a new or
an existing site in SharePoint Online Enterprise.

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Power BI Sites for Office 365

You can see the same workbooks in your standard SharePoint
Documents library and in the Power BI site the Power BI site
is just another, richer view of those workbooks. If you delete a
workbook from the Power BI site, youre deleting it from the
SharePoint Documents library, too.
The Power BI site currently only shows Excel workbooks stored
on the site. If you have other files on the site, you can see
them in the SharePoint Documents library, but not in the
Power BI site view.

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Setup
Register for the Power BI trial at powerbi.com or add the app
from the office app store if you are a current office 365 user.
Setup can be a bit frustrating.

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Tools used for Power BI

Power Pivot:For creating and customizing flexible data
models within Excel.
Power View:For creating interactive charts, graphs and
other visual representations of data.
Power Query:Enables customers to easily search and access
public data and their organization's data, all within Excel
(formerly known as "Data Explorer").
Power Map:A 3D data visualization tool for mapping,
exploring and interacting with geographic and temporal data
(formerly known as product codename "Geoflow").

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Power Query Demo

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Data Management Gateway

Setup a Data Management Gateway for access to on prem
data.
Manually refresh data for report.
Schedule refresh for report
Data refresh of Power Query connections is not supported in
the preview.

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Mobile Power BI
Reports are viewable on tablets and smart phones. Uses
HTML5 instead of Silverlight so the reports will work crossplatform
Power BI app is available for Windows 8 in the Windows App
Store.
Not supported by Windows 8.1 *

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Sharing Data
With Power BI sites, sharing is built in from the beginning. Any
users with permission to access the site can see workbooks as
theyre displayed on the site, unless permissions are further
restricted for a particular workbook or folder.

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View Query Usage

Get information on what queries are being used the most

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Power Map Demo

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Licensing and Cost

Should be available soon for general release. Pricing model
will be per user, per month.
Currently available as an app in the office.com store available
with the trial.
Rumors are it will be available as a stand alone product.

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Resources
PowerBI.com sign up
Getting Started with Power BI - http://
office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/power-bi-download-add-in-F
X104087144.aspx
PowerBI Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/
Power Pivot Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/
Power BI Forum - http://
social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=p
owerbi
Power BI Contest www.powerbicontest.com
chance to win an Xbox One console, a Surface Pro 2 or a PASS
BAC 2014 VIP experience
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Questions?
Jason Burton
Burton IT Consulting, LLC
Evansville PASS President
Twitter - @jasonburton
Email - Jason@burtonitconsulting.com

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