Microsoft Azure - Analytics & Power BI intro

Azure Analytics

1. Create an engine for business-changing insights with Azure Analytics & Power BI

2. Microsoft is here to help you effectively utilise data and analytics to build a resilient business Analytics & AI play a pivotal role for organisations in times of crisis

3. Where do you find yourself on the curve? Hindsight Insight Foresight Value Difficulty Optimisation Information What happened? Descriptive Analysis Why did it happen? Diagnostic Analysis What will happen? Predictive Analysis How can we make it happen? Prescriptive Analysis

4. Where do you find yourself on the curve? Hindsight Insight Foresight Value Difficulty Optimisation Information Why did it happen? Diagnostic Analysis What will happen? Predictive Analysis How can we make it happen? Prescriptive Analysis BI What happened? Descriptive Analysis

5. BI + Analytics unlock the door to AI, machine learning and real-time insights Value Difficulty Optimisation Information BI Analytics What happened? Descriptive Analysis Why did it happen? Diagnostic Analysis What will happen? Predictive Analysis How can we make it happen? Prescriptive Analysis Hindsight Insight Foresight

6. Bring together the best of both worlds with the market-leading BI service and the industry-leading analytics platform BI Power BI can analyse and visualise massive volumes of data Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics provides a scalable platform to enable real-time BI

7. Bring together the best of both worlds with the market-leading BI service and the industry-leading analytics platform BI Power BI can analyse and visualise massive volumes of data Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics provides a scalable platform to enable real-time BI Machine learning Azure Machine Learning natively integrates with Azure Synapse & Power BI to democratise AI across your business

8. BI tools are critical for visualizing data, but when you use all your data it becomes the engine for business-changing insights Level-up BI tools Current investments in BI platforms are often under-utilised by most companies because it lacks a single source of authoritative data and semi-structured signals that come from digital processes Incorporate powerful analytics Maximise the utility of BI tools with cloud analytics that bring speed, security and accelerated time-to-insight. A single well architected service that combines the needs of big data and data warehouse. Drive more business value Dashboards and reports are helpful, but today’s world demands advanced analytics and predictive models that drive new opportunities for increased business value

9. Customers doing this today experience accelerated time-to insight & improved business results “With Synapse Analytics and Power BI, we can provide powerful, customisable, self service data analytics. This helps people move from fixed PDFs to interactive data visualisations that deliver more insights and better answers, leading to improved business results.” “I could push data to Azure by myself and produce reports without going through a formal process... I would say that we built about 90% of the solution without IT help... The learning curve is almost non-existent.” “By moving to Azure and consolidating data into a single source of truth using Azure Synapse Analytics, we’ve got visibility across our global business.”

10. Business agility requires seamless data collaboration across the entire organisation Business analysts IT professionals Data scientists Frictionless collaboration

11. A modern analytics platform delivers ground-breaking value to your business Democratise powerful insights and provide accelerated query performance at no additional cost Maximise the utility of BI tools with cloud analytics that bring speed, security and accelerated time-to-insight Turn data into intelligence with advanced analytics and predictive models that drive next-level business value Native integration

12. Microsoft Azure is the only cloud provider to unify AI, BI and Analytics creating accelerated time-to-insight Cloud data SaaS data On-premises data Devices data Azure Synapse Analytics Store Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Machine Learning Power BI

13. Accelerate business value with a powerful analytics platform Business value Unified analytics platform Advanced analytics and AI Powerful visualisation and reporting Unmatched capabilities Business analysts IT professionals Data scientists Frictionless collaboration Azure Synapse Analytics Power BI Powerful and integrated tooling Azure Machine Learning Common Data Model on Azure Data Lake Storage Unified data

14. Accelerate business value with a powerful analytics platform Respond instantly Enable instant response times with Power BI Aggregations on massive datasets when querying at the aggregated level Get granular with your data Queries at the granular level are sent to Azure Synapse Analytics with DirectQuery leveraging its industry-leading performance Visualise and report Power BI Model & serve Azure Synapse Analytics CDM folders Azure Data Lake Storage Save money with industry-leading performance Azure Synapse Analytics is up to 14× faster and 94% cheaper than other cloud providers View reports with a single pane   of glass Skip the configuration when connecting to Power BI with integrated Power BI-authoring directly in the Azure Synapse Studio

15. Built-in Power BI authoring

16. BI + Analytics paves the path for using emerging technologies, incorporating the latest innovations Business analysts No code, low code IT professionals, Data scientists Low to high code Model & serve Azure Synapse Analytics Train & predict Azure Machine Learning Azure Data Lake Storage Power BI Visualise & report On-premises data Cloud data SaaS data Streaming data Ingest Seamlessly innovate

17. Customers using Azure Synapse & Power BI today are transforming their business with purpose 271% Average ROI 60% Increased customer satisfaction 27% Faster time to insights 26% Lower total cost of ownership * Forrester, October 2019, ‘The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Azure Analytics with Power BI’

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