RDX Insights Series Presentation focusing on Microsoft Power BI in the cloud. We begin with a high-level overview of the Microsoft BI product suite and discuss the SSIS/SSAS/SSRS tech stack and Power BI. The webinar continues with a deep dive into Power BI and includes instructions on how to use the product to capture, model, analyze and visualize business data. We end the webinar with a Power BI demo highlighting some of its most beneficial and interesting features.

1. INSIGHTS Presentation Series
Jeremy “BI” Frye – BI Product Team Manager
Chris Foot, VP Technologies and Strategies
Microsoft Business Intelligence Offerings
Power BI, SSIS/SSAS/SSRS
BI
POWER BI
Webinar
Video Inside

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Who We Are
The Largest Pure Play Provider of
Managed Data Infrastructure Services
20
YEARS OF
SERVICE DELIVERY
EXPERIENCE
Database Platforms
SQL Server
Oracle
PostgreSQL*
DB2
MongoDB*
MySQL*
Operating Systems
Unix/Linux*Windows
Edge Technologies
SQL Server BI
Oracle EBS
SharePoint
Exchange
Environment
450+ Customers
10,000 Servers
200+ DBAs
Fortune 100s
Startups
All Verticals
Cloud Systems
Amazon AWS/RDS
Oracle Cloud DB
DBPaaS
Msoft Azure
IaaS
Hybrid Cloud
* All distributions

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Microsoft Business Intelligence
Analysis Services
Reporting Services
Integration Services

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• Robust functionality
• Low initial cost entry point
• A complete product stack that includes all components
needed to create a full-featured, robust BI environment
• No third party tools required
• Compatibility
• Tight integration with the SQL Server database engine
• Toolset provides client and driver software to integrate
with other RDBMS/Non-RDBMS data stores
• Integrates with SharePoint, Excel and most major
Microsoft tools
• Support
• Support provided by one, single vendor. No “finger
pointing” between vendors
Microsoft Business Intelligence Advantages

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SSIS – SQL Server Integration Services
• Extraction - Captures data from disparate data sources
• Transformation - Translates different data formats into a common format
• Loading – Loads data into SQL Server for additional processing
INTEGRATION
SERVICES
OTHER
DATABASE
SOURCES
CUBE
ANALYSIS
SERVICES
• Integration Wizards captures data
from any heterogeneous data source
• Oracle, Teradata, DB2, ODBC, text
files
• Change Data Capture (high volume)
• Automated Workflows
• Schedule integration jobs
• Schedule transformation jobs
• Provides Auto-Transformations
• Data Conversions
• Union-All
• Sorts
• Aggregation
• Row Sampling
• Pivot
• Data Mining Model Training
• Derived Columns
• Lookups
• Merge joins
• ……. (and many more)
Operational
Data
Sources

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SSAS – SQL Server Analysis Services
INTEGRATION
SERVICES
OTHER
DATABASE
SOURCES
CUBE
ANALYSIS
SERVICES
Operational
Data
Sources
STAR
SNOWFLAKE
CUBE
DATA
ACCESS
AND
DISPLAY

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SSRS – SQL Server Reporting Services

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Design
Mobile Publisher
Visual Studio
Report Builder
Data Sources
SSRS – Architecture
Display
Browsers
Power BI Mobile
Custom Apps
Report Server
Web Portal
Web APIs
Processing
&
Rendering
Engine
Scheduling
REPORT
SERVER
DATABASE
Data Store
OTHER
DATABASE
SOURCES
ANALYSIS
SERVICES
OLE DB/ODBCCustom
Destinations
Power BI SharePoint
File
Share
Custom

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Microsoft Power BI

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Power BI
Service
Power BI Architecture
Other Cloud Systems
Dashboards
Reports
Datasets
OTHER
DATABASE
SOURCES
ANALYSIS
SERVICES
Files
Power BI
Gateway Provides access to
on-premises data
1 GIG LIMIT
Power BI
Content Packs
Jumpstart BI process
Publish visualizations
and data to Power BI
Cloud
Power BI
Desktop
Power BI
Mobile
Power BI
Desktop
Power BI
Web Dashboards
Power BI
IPAD

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Power BI Dashboards and Reports
Power BI
Report
Dataset
Power BI
Report
Dataset
Power BI
Report
Dataset
• One page
• Graphical displays
• Multiple data sources
• Not available in BI Desktop
• Can’t filter or slice
• Able to set alerts
• Can’t change visualization type
• Add widgets for visualization
Dashboards
• Multi-page
• Graphical displays
• Single data sources
• Create/view reports in BI Desktop
• Can filter and slice
• No alerting function
• Can change visualization type
• Many different ways of visualization
Reports
Power BI
Dashboard

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Power BI and Microsoft Excel
Power Pivot
Power Query
Power View
Data Access
Analyze
Display
Power BI
Desktop
Power BI
Service

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Power BI Service Data Sources

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Power BI Content Packs

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Power BI Content Pack Default Dashboards

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Power BI Apps vs Organizational Content Packs

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Power BI Desktop Data Sources

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Power BI Desktop Data Modeling
Creating Additional Data Relationships

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Power BI Desktop Data Manipulation

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Power BI Desktop Visualization Design

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Power BI Desktop Publishing

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Power BI Desktop Report Optimization Phones

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Power BI Service Report Creation

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Power BI Service Report Editor

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Power BI Service Dashboard Editor

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Power BI Service Q&A

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Power BI Service Quick Insights

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Power BI Desktop Report Insights
Providing Power BI
Desktop with Power BI
Service Quick Insight “like”
capabilities
Allows users to click on
bar in bar chart and
identify what caused
increase or decrease from
the previous bar

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Embedding Power BI

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Microsoft BI Future Roadmap
Analysis Services
Complementary
Functionality
Overlapping
Functionality
Integrating
Functionality
Enhancing
Functionality

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Demo
View Power BI Demo on YouTube

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Questions and Additional Information
jfrye@rdx.com
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SERVICE DELIVERY
EXPERIENCE
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Video recording of this presentation can be found
on RDX’s YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/ATnk1AHzjbA