# Excel will be able to connect to #PowerBI data models directly - like a big #SSAS server - @AmirNetz #msdatasummit - Hope #PBIDesktop ext

Sitting in @awsaxton’s #PowerBI Performance session at #NACS & i just noticed that he is using PBIDesktop to present instead of PowerPoint… stealing this for the future. Better reason not to use conference pptx templates than “because I don’t wanna” ;)