Not just one but TWO live blogs from Radacad running so you won’t miss anything!
Reza is also blogging here https://radacad.com/microsoft-data-insight-summit-2017-keynote-live-blog
5 mins to go.
Sitting between Chris and Alberto.
We are delayed due to the massive influx of attendees queuing to get in.
James Phillips speaking now
- Summit sold out 5 weeks early
- 2500 people in the room
- Hat-tip to the community
- 18000 cities
- 235 countries
- 43 languages
- 19 MS datacenters
- 11.5M data models
- 30k new models oer day
- 450+ user voice ideas shipped
- 2Million report/dboard queries per hour
Power BI Premium notes
Siri Sun (Snr Program Manager)
- Diamond icon for premium
- easy to push to Premium
- Demo of admin screens for Premium
- up to 48 refreshes per day of Premium
- Demo using 2 billion rows (15 years of NY Taxi rides)
- Unlimited distribution
- Jon Townsend (Dir of tech UK National Trust)
- demo of custom visual
Nice timeline custom visual showing key milestones
Amir Netz (Technical Fellw)
- EM1 and EM2 SKUs starting at $625 per month
- 2000 ISV’s building Apps
- IF you have app already then all good, but you don;t need it
- Embed using new SKU’s into SharePoint
- Embed using MS Teams – easy to add
- New Visio diagram control – auto mapping to data model entities
- Can paste Power APP into Power BI – writeback functionallity
- New Quick Measure quick measure (star rating)
- Data Bars in the new preview matrix
- new button to install custom visuals from store
- UK Trust custom visual available in the store
- Word Cloud (remove stop words
- Drill through page settings on on Page Settings
- Can define a page as a drill through page
- Bookmark pane to allow us to save state (all current filter settings)
- Use Bookmarks to tell a story to walk through
- Can now spotlight a visual
- Can show/hide visuals visuals on page when building story
- Turn a button into a link
- Use buttons to show/hide visuals
Pat Baumgartner
- Right click, explain the increase!!
- nice mix of new features
- right click to find additional insights
- improved version of waterfall (aggregate other to 1)
- Further integration with Cortana
- Using names in Cortana to find PBI sharing
- iPhone Q&A as conversation – refine answer with further questions
Phil is Microsoft Data Platform MVP and an experienced database and business intelligence (BI) professional with a deep knowledge of the Microsoft B.I. stack along with extensive knowledge of data warehouse (DW) methodologies and enterprise data modelling. He has 25+ years experience in this field and an active member of Power BI community.