An overview of the Power BI offering from Microsoft as of the November 2013 Preview. Presentation covers the components that make it up, how they interact and function, and the role of the Power BI in the market.

1. November 23rd, 2013
Power BI
What It Is
How It Works
Why It Matters
John P White
Chief Technical Officer
UnlimitedViz Inc
jpw@unlimitedviz.com
@diverdown1964
whitepages.unlimitedviz.com

2. Thank you to all of our Sponsors!!

4. Q&A

5. End to End with Power BI

6. Power
Q&A
OData feeds
Power
Query
Power
Map
Power
View

7. Share
queries

8. Power Query demo
NOAA Raw data
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-basedstation-data/land-based-datasets/global-historicalclimatology-network-ghcn

10. Easy to
build and
share

13. Power Map demo

15. OData
endpoints for
on-premises
data

17. Data Management Gateway demo

20. Power Q&A demo

23. Maximum
workbook size

27. Feature
Interaction with Embedded Models
PowerPivot for
SharePoint
Power BI
Yes
Yes
Yes (with export)
Yes
Use embedded model as data source
Yes
No
Auto refresh
Yes
Yes (limited)
Model size limit
2Gb
250 Mb
Thumbnail gallery
Yes
Yes
Pre-optimize workbooks
No
Yes
Publish Odata feeds
No
Yes
Natural language query
No
Yes
Mobile client
No
Yes
Power View rendering

29. http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel/power-bi-FX104080667.aspx
http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com
http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=powerbiforoffice365
http://pbishowcase.azurewebsites.net/

30. Q&A

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