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European SharePoint Conference 2017
November 13, 2017 - November 16, 2017
Monday Nov 14th – 9:00 AM-5:00 PM – Everything You Wanted to Know About Power BI (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Power BI is the gold standard for cloud based report delivery. It’s very approachable – you can get up and running with it in minutes, but it’s also very robust, secure and extensible. As you might expect, it has many pieces and nuances, and it’s important to understand what is possible, even if you may not take immediate advantage of some features, in order to understand what to use when.
This tutorial will help to guide you in building a complete analytical solution, using all the features of Power BI. We will start from nothing, and create queries that import and integrate data from many different sources. You will also learn how to refresh data using the on-premises data gateway and the personal gateway to connect to existing on-premises data from a variety of sources In addition, you will see an overview the many other additional features available in Power BI.
At the end of this seminar you will be ready to not only start using Power BI for your projects, but you will also understand which approach is best for different situations. Bring your questions, and we’ll do our best to answer them.
Tuesday 14th November at 16:45 – What’s new for the BI workload in SharePoint 2016 and SQL Server V.Next
There are a number of significant changes to the BI workload in SharePoint 2016. Excel Services has been deprecated, and SQL Server Reporting Services has been significantly enhanced. Power BI is a big factor, but where does it fit? What do all of these changes mean for your new and existing BI investments?
This session will walk through the various changes, and call out the good the bad, and the ugly of these changes. It will highlight what can still be done, what has been enhanced, and what is no longer possible. Finally, it will provide a BI migration strategy for any existing investments.
Wednesday 15th November at 10:15 – Power BI – What’s the Fuss All About
In less than two years, Power BI has gone from non-existent to being the pre-eminent tool for doing self-service analytics. Power BI is the tool that is allowing Microsoft to democratize Business Intelligence, bringing Power (BI) to the People. This session is an introduction to what Power BI is, and how to work with it. We will demonstrate a number of its capabilities with real world examples. At the end of this session, you will be able to see how Power BI can help bring your data to life.