POWER BI New BI feature in EXCEL 2013/365

- Marylyn Pandit & Hamid Jallis

AGENDA

• What’s new in Excel 2013/365?

• What is Power BI

• Features of Power BI

• Components of Power BI

• Architecture

• Limitations of Excel

WHAT’S NEW IN EXCEL 2013/365

• Powerful Business Intelligence.

• Is light weight and secure

• Apps For Excel

• Cloud Capabilities (Skydrive)

• Quick to setup. Add – Ins available

• No size limitations.

ANNOUNCING POWER BI IN EXCEL

Power BI

Power Pivot

Power View

Power Query

Power Map

Discover and connect to external data

Explore, analyse and visualise data

Create dashboard in minutes

WHO CAN USE POWER BI??

ANYONE CAN USE IT …

• SMBs or large companies

• Data Analysts

• Decision makers

• BI Developers

• Even my boss!

FEATURES OF POWER BI

• In-built Data Model

• Ability to create / detect relationships

• Share datasets securely

• Manage data connections

• Data in the reports is refreshable

• New Timeline control

COMPONENTS OF POWER BIPOWER QUERY

• Formerly known as “Data Explorer”

• Import and combine data from multiple/

external datasets, mash it with internal

data, etc.

• Aggregate, drill down, …

• Merge, expand, append and refresh

• Isolation of data sources

POWER QUERY

COMPONENTS OF POWER BI

POWER VIEW

• Relational & cross-filtered visualizations and reports

• Interactive dashboards like widgets• Consumes data model • Can also be hooked up to external data models

POWER VIEW

COMPONENTS OF POWER BI

• Builds pivot table/charts from billions of records

• Independent pivot charts

• Create dashboards by linking table and charts

• Separate calculation area for KPIs and calculated fields

• Create KPIs based on calculated fields

POWER PIVOT

POWER PIVOT

COMPONENTS OF POWER BI

• Formerly known as “Geo-Flow”

• View data geographically in 3D interactive map

• Best suited for demographic data.

• Can drill down up to Longitude and Latitude

POWER MAP

POWER MAP

Architecture - How does Power BI do it all?

• xVelocity Engine ( next generation of Vertipaq)

• In memory analytics

• Columnar storage

• Compression technology

HOW CAN YOU GET POWER BI

Available in 2 options:

• Office 365 Pro Plus

• Office 2013 Professional Plus

LIMITATIONS OF POWER BI

• Limited backward compatibility for Excel 2010

• 250 megabytes (MB) per file upload in Excel Web App in Office 365

• Student edition does not have these powerful features

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