Power View Bringing your Data to Life!
Dan English Principal Business Intelligence Consultant
Superior Consulting Services, LLC [email protected]
Speaker Background
Dan English
http://denglishbi.wordpress.com
@denglishbi
• Microsoft SQL Server MVP
• Microsoft BI User Group MN Leadership Team Member
• Blog / Vimeo Screencasts / Twitter
• Published Author
SCS Background
• Founded in 1997, SCS is a technical consulting firm focused exclusively on Microsoft technologies to provide custom solutions
• Headquartered in Burnsville, MN • Microsoft Gold Partner since 2006 • Microsoft Managed Partner • Provide solutions in the areas of Business Intelligence,
Reporting, Application Development, Networking, SharePoint, and Special Projects
• Industry recognized authorities via books, speaking engagements, and direct assistance to Microsoft
Session Outline
• What is the BI Semantic Model
• PowerPivot & Tabular SSAS
– Demo
• What is Power View (“Crescent”)
– Demo
• What’s coming in SQL 2012 SP1 & Excel 2013
• Questions
Quick Audience Poll
How many are currently using Analysis Services?
How many have Office 2010 deployed?
How many have used PowerPivot? In production? With SharePoint?
Anyone using SQL Server 2012 yet?
How many have not seen a Power View demo?
BI Semantic Model
BI Semantic Model
One Model for all End User Experiences
Client Tools Analytics, Reports, Scorecards,
Dashboards, Custom Apps
Data Sources Databases, LOB Applications, OData Feeds,
Spreadsheets, Text Files
BI Semantic Model
Team BI PowerPivot for SharePoint
Personal BI PowerPivot for Excel
Organizational BI Analysis Services
Flexibility Richness Scalability
Third-party applications
Reporting Services Excel PowerPivot
Databases LOB Applications Files OData Feeds Cloud Services
SharePoint Insights
BI Semantic Model: Architecture
Feels like
Excel
PowerPivot for Excel BI Development Studio
Information Workers BI Developers
Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI
One file,
Save to
SharePoint
Optimized for Excel power user
Rapid
response to
business
problems Solutions live
for weeks or
months
IW and Pro Model Design Tools
Feels like Visual
Studio
Optimized
for BI Pros
Teams building BI
solutions
Source Control,
TFS
Large data
volumes
It’s a project
(business case,
budget, dates)
Deployment
scripts, versions
PowerPivot & Tabular SSAS
What is PowerPivot?
PowerPivot supports files up to 2GB in size. The 64-bit version of PowerPivot enables you to work with up to 4GB of data in memory, and the 32-bit version enables you to work with up to 2GB of data in memory (500 to 700MB files)
Excel 2010 (32-bit or 64-bit) is required to install PowerPivot for Excel.
PowerPivot for Excel is a free download that significantly expands the data analysis capabilities of Excel.
What can it do?
IW Tool
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Analysis Services
Microsoft PowerPivot
Microsoft PDW
Microsoft SQL Azure
Microsoft Access
Oracle
Teradata
Sybase
Informix IBM DB2
ODBC / OLEDB
ATOM datafeeds
Azure DataMarket
Microsoft Excel
Reporting Services
Text Files
Personal BI
Team BI
DAX
PivotTables
PivotCharts
Self-service
Agile
Slicers
Sparklines
Data Bars
Measures
Calculated Columns
Relationships
What’s new in PowerPivot (v2)?
What’s Tabular Analysis Services?
POWERPIVOT & TABULAR SSAS Demo
Power View (Project “Crescent”)
What is Power View?
Power View is an interactive data exploration
and visual presentation experience.
Highly Visual Design Experience
Presentation-ready at all times
Rich metadata-driven interactivity
Power View
• Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into persuasive information
• Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint • Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom session and
ability to export to interactive PowerPoint slidedeck
• Fully integrated with PowerPivot and Tabular SSAS • Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying • Zero configuration highlighting and filtering • Animated trending and comparisons
• Interactive, web-based authoring, and sharing of information • Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns • Powerful data layout with banding, callout, and small multiples
visualizations
Report Designer Power View Report Builder
Embedded Operational Self-Service
POWER VIEW Demo
Power View Demo Screenshot
What’s coming next in SQL 2012 SP1 & Excel 2013?
Power View in Excel 2013!
New Chart Types Pie Charts
Maps
KPI support
Hierarchy support
Drill up/down
More style and theme options
Backgrounds and images
Hyperlinks
And more
QUESTIONS
THANK YOU! [email protected]