Power BI is a tool which provides users with very intelligent statistical analysis of raw data and to derive beautiful reports out of it using hundreds of power Visualization. Not just it Power BI provides a build in advantage of Power Views and Power Queries derived from Excel as a base with a very easy process learning. I personally call it very Intelligently dumb tool, because its so easy for normal user to use it and make highly interactive reporting and Dashboards. The Dashboard which are created can be shared with multiple users with specific permission levels to access the reports.

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By: Apurva Ramteke
Business & Integration Arch Sr Analyst
BCS-ISEB, CCBA Certified
IDC Accenture India ||+91 9860696620|| apurva.Ramteke@accenture.com

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Power BI
• Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools
that deliver insights throughout a Enterprise
or organization.
• Connects to hundreds of data sources or
platforms, enables data modelling, and drive
ad- hoc analysis.
• Capable of producing beautiful reports, then
publish them for an organization to consume
on the web and across mobile devices.
• Everyone can create personalized
dashboards and customize reports created
originally with a unique, 360-degree view of
their business.
• And scale across the enterprise, with
governance and security built-in.
• In this ppt. deck you will go through the main
features and capabilities of Power BI using an
end-to-end scenario.

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A powerful new way to analyze and model data
Self-service business intelligence and analytics tool built on Excel with the power of the cloud.
Power BI dramatically simplifies and reduces the time it takes for IT to setup and manage the
complex infrastructure needed for an enterprise wide BI platform.

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A powerful new way to analyze and model data
Analyze
Visualize
Discover
Search, access, and transform
public and internal data sources
with Power Query
Easy data modeling and
lightning fast in-memory
analytics with Power Pivot
Bold new interactive data
visualizations with Power View
and Power Map
Share
Question
Q&A
Dashboar
d
Share data views and
workbooks refreshable from on-
premises and cloud based data
sources, with Power BI Sites
Ask questions and get
immediate answers with natural
language query.
Access through Dashboard
and touch optimized power tips.
Power BI enables Organizations to balance between the needs of business stakeholders working
in Excel and an IT department’s requirements for governance, monitoring and agility. It also
provides stakeholders the ability to search and access IT/Non-IT sanctioned corporate data
sources both on premises and in the cloud while monitoring query usage against their data.

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Experience the Data through Various sources
Get the Data through Various sources

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Experience the Data through Various sources
Get the Data through Various sources

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Experiences
1. Local: Through Power BI Desktop.
2. Cloud: Through Power BI Services after publishing.
3. Dataflow is as follows:
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Data Management Gateway
Power BI
Admin Center
Allows IT to
configure,
manage and
monitor access
to corporate data
sources.
Data Management Gateway
Connects to corporate data sources and
sends data to Microsoft cloud services
through a secure channel (Service Bus).
Corporate Data Sources
The Gateway can connect to
a variety of data sources.
Secure Credential
Store
All credentials used
by the gateway are
stored on-premises.
Encrypted backup
of credentials can
also be stored in the
cloud to enable
business continuity
scenarios.
Cloud
To Fetch data from various sources and then to have single point access to that
data through secured Gateway.

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Set up for Desktop Power BI
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/desktop/
Local
Published reports from Desktop
https://app.powerbi.com
Cloud
With Power BI Desktop, you get a powerful
report-creating Windows desktop app that jump-
starts your analytics. You can import Excel
workbooks, upload reports to the service, and
much more.
The Power BI service is the online software
service where users spend most of their time.
Here you'll find dashboards, content packs, and
all sorts of visualizations.
Start with getting the sample data from below URL:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-sample-datasets/
Initial set up

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Download custom
Visuals from
https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/
To Download Visualizations from:

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• Step 1: Download Desktop Power BI from:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/ . If not having account
already with Microsoft then open a one via “Sign up free”

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• Step 2: After download, open Power BI desktop by clicking on the icon
created on your desktop screen while downloading.

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• Step 3: Click on “Get Data”. Select the source: In our case source is simple
excel file

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• Step 4: You can customize, update or edit the data before loading
by clicking on edit button, else directly load the data.

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• Step 5: If in case you click on Edit button then “Query Editor” will open up as
shown below. This feature provides following options:
- To add custom/conditional columns
- Sorting
- Apply statistical calculation on columns loaded.
- Split columns etc.

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• Step 6: After editing just click on “Close & Apply” button at the top in File
Menu.

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• Step 7: It will open up a blank Canvas at the center to create reports.

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• Step 8: To change the names of data sets: Just right click on the Fields
section and say Rename.

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• Step 9: To manage the relationships. Click on “Manage Relationships” option
at the top.

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• Step 10: Finally start creating reports on blank canvas.

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• Report 1: IR ID Count

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• Report 2: TeamWisePriority
Note: All the other reports can be explored from pbix file given in the
attachments. To open the pbix file, one need to install Power BI desktop App.

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• Step 11: Once the reports are created, now its time to publish them. Click on
“Publish Icon at the top right corner.

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• Step 12: Login into your Power BI account created for same.

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• Step 13: Select the destination where you want to publish the same and
publish all the reports.

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• Step 14: After publishing – login into https://app.powerbi.com

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• Step 15: Create your own Dashboard by pinning the reports into newly
created or already existing dashboard. To Pin the report, you just need to do
two steps.

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• Step 16: Once the dashboard is created fully, you can share it with any
number of users or limited number of users by created groups or else share it
with whole organization.

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• Step 17: Lastly, you can also create a whole “Content Pack” including
Dashboard that is created, Reports that are published and Datasets that gets
created automatically at the backend while publishing the reports.

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• Step 18: Finally to for other users to access the content pack which you have
created, they can just click on “Get Data” link at the bottom left corner of the
screen.

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Power BI vs. the other competitors
Feature Power BI Tableau Qlikview
Data Visualisation Power View is not as rich as
competitors in dashboards
and visual analytics. However,
competitors do not have an
equivalent tool to Power Map
Very strong visual analytics and
dashboards
Similar level to tableau but not
as easy to create dashboards but
are regarded as better quality
than tableau, may require
scripting
Data Modelling Strong data modelling and
analytics/ easier to use than
competitors
Basic data modelling tools Does have a data modelling tool
but may require an IT specialist
and is known for taking time to
perfect data model
Combining data Ease of access to
public/corporate data sources
including tables from the web,
merge and append
Large list of data source support
and feeds
Ease of connection to
proprietary data sources may
struggle with others
ETL Power Query is easy to use
powerful ETL tool, Q&A
unique to Power BI
Does not have an ETL tool, ETL
needs to be done in a database or
via Excel
Does have an ETL tool but may
not be included in standard
package

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Licensing FAQ
Do I need any other products to use Power BI for Office 365?
Yes. Power BI for Office 365 requires SharePoint Online Plan 2. It also is recommended but not required that
Power BI for Office 365 customers have Office 365 Pro Plus or Office 2013 Professional Plus for additional
Business Intelligence capabilities, including Power View, Power Query, Power Pivot and Power Map Preview.
SharePoint Online Plan 2 and Office 365 Pro Plus are both included in Office 365 Enterprise Plans E3 and E4 as
well as Office 365 Education Plans A3 and A4. SharePoint Online Plan 2A (Academic) also satisfies the
SharePoint requirement. SharePoint Online Plan 2 is also included in Power BI for Office 365 Standalone offers
but not in Power BI for Office 365 Add-on offers.
Are Government and Academic pricing available for Power BI for Office 365?
Yes. Government and Academic pricing are offered through the MOSP/Direct, EA and Open licensing programs.
Government pricing is also available in Syndication, but Academic pricing is not.
Can Power BI for Office 365 be purchased as an add-on to Office 365 Small or Medium Business plans?
No. Power BI for Office 365 requires SharePoint Online Plan 2 which is only available in Office 365 Enterprise E3
and E4 or as a separate subscription.

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