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SharePoint Fest Seattle

Name: SharePoint Fest Seattle
Start: 2017-08-08T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-08-11T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Washington State Convention Center

August 8, 2017 - August 11, 2017

Full Day Workshop 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.

Level: Experienced

Analytically shiny and new: A guided tour of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence toys

Having trouble keeping up with all of the changes in the BI space around SharePoint & Office 365? Feel like every time you think you understand what is going on Microsoft pivots (pun intended) yet again? You are not alone.

Join Rackspace Microsoft MVP, Jason Himmelstein, for a journey through the Microsoft story around BI and how the latest changes are making it all more cohesive & something worth investing your time (and money) into. He will cover Power BI, what changes as a result of SQL Server 2016 for SharePoint, the Excel story, and help you understand the integration story with Office 365.

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.

Details

Start:: August 8, 2017
End:: August 11, 2017
Website:: http://www.sharepointfest.com/Seattle/

Organizer

: SharePoint Fest LLC

Venue

: Washington State Convention Center
: 800 Convention Place
Seattle, WA 98101-2350 United States + Google Map
Phone: +1 (206) 694-5000
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