Transcript Report Like a Rock Star

Report Like a Rock Star
What is Power BI?
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Introductions
Mark Jensen, Director of Product Management,
InterDyn BMI
• Started w/GPA for DOS Tech Support at Great Plains Software
• Dynamics GP experience since V0.5 (Support, Training, Product
Mgmt)
• Software Product Management/Marketing for past 20 years
• Fargo for 27 years; now based in Minneapolis
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A Quick Look at InterDyn BMI
160
Team Members and growing!
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30
U.S. Locations
Years in Business · Since 1985
2000+
GOLD
Active
Clients
Active
Clients
Certified Dynamics ERP & CRM
Session Objectives
• Improve your understanding of:
• How Power BI can help you
• Pricing/Packaging
• Learn how to:
• Connect datasets
• Create visualizations
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What?
What is Power BI?
Benefits
Pricing/Packaging
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What is business intelligence?
“Business intelligence is essentially
timely, accurate, high-value, and
actionable business insights, and
the work processes and
technologies used to obtain them.”
BI for Dummies, Swain Scheps
• Timely
• Accurate
• High-value
• Actionable
WHAT IS MICROSOFT POWER BI?
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Suite of business analytics tools
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Focus on what matters
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Accessible from Web, Desktop, Mobile
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Works with ERP to web analytics apps
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Office 365 users to share with colleagues
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Differentiating Features
Data access, mashups, and
transformation in Power BI
Desktop
Pre-built dashboards and
reports for popular SaaS
solutions
Real-time dashboard updates
Intuitive data exploration using
natural language query
Secure, live connection to your
data sources, on-premises and
in the cloud
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Connects to the Data That Matters
Data sources include
Microsoft apps & SaaS
e.g. Dynamics, Office 365, Visual
Studio Online, System Center, …
3rd party apps & SaaS
e.g. Salesforce, Marketo, Zendesk,
Adobe, Quickbooks, Custom
Microsoft databases & data
services
e.g. SQL Server Stream Analytics,
SQL Data Warehouse, Excel, HDI, …
3rd party databases and data
services
e.g. Oracle, Teradata, DB2,
PostgresSQL, Hadoop, MySQL
Power bi: freeMIUM PRICING
FREE
POWER BI PRO
• $9.99 / user / month
• Not a trial
• Premium Features:
• Not “adware” or “nagware”
• 10 GB/User Data capacity limit
• Schedule content refresh
• 1M rows/hour of streaming data
• Share reports and dashboards
• Feature Limitations:
• Consume live, interactive data sources
• 1 GB/User Data capacity limit
• Create and Publish Organizational
Content Packs
• 10K rows/hour of streaming data
• 1 a day content refresh
For details, visit: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/; Every user consuming Power BI Pro content must also have a Power BI Pro License
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POWER BI BENEFITS
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What?
What is Power BI?
Benefits
Pricing/Packaging
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Demo
Connecting
Creating
Collaborating
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Considerations
• Security
• Customer Data?
• Access Rights
• Data Management
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Market leadership recognized by analysts
• “Microsoft Power BI leads the Agile BI
pack.” – Forrester
• “BI leaders can now consider Power BI
ready for broad deployment without
waiting for a change in corporate
policy for Office.” – Gartner
• “Microsoft’s new, partner-friendly
approach to Power BI expands the
Microsoft ecosystem, giving BI users
improved functionality and options for
mobile and prebuilt solutions.” –
Gartner
Forrester Wave: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2015
Gartner: New Microsoft Power BI Is an Enhanced Offering at a Compelling License Price
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WHAT IS MICROSOFT POWER BI?
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Suite of business analytics tools
•
Focus on what matters
•
Accessible from Web, Desktop, Mobile
•
Works with ERP to web analytics apps
•
Office 365 users to share with colleagues
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Questions?
• [email protected]
• Direct: 651-746-1677
• @markdjensen
• www.interdynbmi.com
Thank you for attending!
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