7 Ways to Integrate Excel with Power BI

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Slides from my presentation “7 Ways to Integrate Excel with Power BI”.

Power BI is gaining a momentum but Excel still rules the corporate world. Fortunately, Power BI and Excel are not exclusive choices. Join me to learn how you can preserve your Excel investment in Power BI. I’ll start by explaining the value Power BI brings to different types of users in your organization. Then, I’ll discuss and demo seven options for integrating Excel with Power BI:

  • Import Excel files in Power BI Service
  • Build self-service data models from Excel data
  • Deploy Excel models to Power BI
  • Convert Excel models to Power BI
  • Connect to Excel reports
  • Analyze Power BI datasets in Excel
  • Add Excel reports to Power BI dashboards

Embed Interactive Reports in Your Apps

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Slides from my presentation for Atlanta Code Camp 2016 on Power BI Embedded.

You have the app. You have the data. What if your app could put the power of analytics everywhere decisions are made and allow your customers to gain insights? Modern apps with data visualizations built-in have the power to inform decisions in context—for any user and on any device. Thanks to Power BI Embedded, you can now embed data analytics in any app and on one device.

Slides from Formulate Power BI Strategy Seminar

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A year ago Microsoft unveiled the new Power BI platform consisting of the PowerBI.com cloud service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile. Since then, Prologika has helped organizations of all sizes to plan and adopt Power BI. Packed with features, Power BI supports a dizzying variety of features and integration scenarios but it might be difficult to understand how Power BI fits in your data analytics ecosystem.

Join Prologika and Microsoft for a 3-hour free seminar on Wednesday, August 31th, 8:30 AM -12 PM ET, at the Microsoft Office in Alpharetta, when Teo Lachev (CEO of Prologika) and Brian Jackson (Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft) share practical knowledge and experience to help you to formulate a Power BI enterprise strategy. If you’re considering Power BI but you’re not sure how it fits within your organizational data strategy, this event is for you.

Key Takeaways
Understand how Power BI changed the way users (information workers, data analysts, BI pros, and developers) gain and share data insights.
Learn 10 areas where Power BI excels compared to other popular BI tools, such as Tableau, Qlik Sense, Sisense, Domo, and others.
Plan a data access strategy for:
Importing data
Connecting live to cloud sources with content packs and solution templates
Connecting live to on-premises data sources
Implementing real-time dashboards
Embedded reporting
Taking a deep dive to learn how Prologika designed and implemented a hybrid architecture solution for a Fortune 50 organization and meet security requirements that prevented exporting data to the cloud
Join in a discussion about other business use cases and gaps between Power BI and other BI products, and find how to address them. Get your questions answered.
You won’t want to miss this educational and engaging event! Please register today as seating is limited at https://prologika.com/event/formulating-a-power-bi-enterprise-strategy/