Introduction to Microsoft Power BI
- 1. Microsoft Power BI Bring your data to life with Microsoft Power BI By Harinda Dias
- 2. Business intelligence Business intelligence (BI) can be described as a set of techniques and tools for the acquisition and transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes -Wikipedia-
- 3. What is Power BI Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that gives you a single view of your most critical business data. Monitor the health of your business using a live dashboard, create rich interactive reports with Power BI Desktop and access your data on the go with native Power BI Mobile apps. It’s easy, fast, and free.
- 4. Market Position Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader, for the ninth consecutive year, in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.* For the first time, Microsoft is placed furthest in vision within the Leaders quadrant. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en- us/blog/gartner-positions-microsoft- as-a-leader-in-bi-and-analytics- platforms/
- 5. Demo • PowerBI Account creation • PowerBI Desktop • Different data sources • Importing data • Creating data model • Creating Columns and Measures • Creating Reports • Publishing To Web • Schedule Synchronization • On premises data connectivity – Enterprise gateway • Sharing with users • Publishing to web • Integrating with other systems • SAAS Model • PAAS Model • Custom visuals
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Editor's Notes
- #5: Execution Models. Provides three different execution models—virtual machines (VMs), web applications, and cloud services, for running applications o Windows Azure Identity Management. Includes Windows Azure Active Directory and Access Control services to help manage identities, authentication, and authorization in a web application. o Data Management. Includes services to host and manage relational database and Blob content o Business Analytics Solutions. Includes services that helps perform business information analysis by using SQL Server Reporting Services and Apache Hadoop. Business analytics solutions support all the data stores distributed across multiple Windows Azure data centers. o Networking Services. Includes services that provide networking capabilities to securely connect multiple services in Microsoft data centers. o Messaging with Service Bus. Includes services that enable applications to communicate on Windows Azure. o Media Management. Includes services that bring content geographically closer to users and help store large volumes of content outside the web application. Storing content outside the application helps improve the performance of the application.
- #6: Question: What are the benefits of using Windows Azure cloud services? Answer: You can use Windows Azure cloud services to enable Microsoft to manage the entire application. If the application fails on the cloud, Windows Azure cloud services allow you to move the application to other VMs. The following list summarizes the benefits of cloud services: Cloud services provide administrative access to the VM of your application. This access allows you install software that your application needs. Cloud services offer both web-role and worker-role VMs, which is better for multi-tier applications that need separate VMs for their business logic. Cloud services provide separate staging and production environments that allow developers to fully test the application before delivery to ensure that the application is fully functional. Cloud services support the use of Windows Azure Virtual Network and Windows Azure Connect.