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Hosted PowerPivot Information

Pivotstream | www.pivotstream.com | info@pivotstream.com | 330.460.0090

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Why choose Hosted PowerPivot over running

your own PowerPivot for SharePoint farm?

Ready in Hours, Not Months

Begin sharing and securing your PowerPivot reports

TODAY.

We handle the complexities of SharePoint & Power-

Pivot server. You keep you focus where it belongs:

understanding and improving your business.

Much More Than “Out of the Box”

Pivotstream’s software platform extends the “out of

the box” product from MS, addressing commonly

unmet needs and improving performance/flexibility.

Share with your customers and partners as easily as

sharing with your own team.

Customize your URL and brand your portal. Project

insights to the world as YOU, not as someone else.

Refresh workbooks more than once per day. Even

refresh “on demand” or in response to events!

Affordable

The hidden costs of deploying your own PowerPivot

server environment are many time greater than the

cost of the hardware and software.

Everything is covered as part of one low monthly fee

at a fraction of the combined “do-it-yourself” cost.

Speed Where it Matters Most

Pivotstream custom-built hardware delivers insights

at the speed of thought: literally 4-10x faster than

ANY server or appliance on the market.

Traditional server hardware is NOT designed to keep

up with PowerPivot’s unique computational power.

Pivotstream matches PowerPivot’s revolutionary

power with truly revolutionary hardware.

Pivotstream

covers your BI

needs —

regardless of

budget, data

complexity, or

IT assets.

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Why choose Hosted PowerPivot over running

your own PowerPivot for SharePoint farm?

Attractive, Customizable Web BI Portal

Pre-built, easily customizable templates for your portal’s homepage and PowerPivot report pages.

Multiple customization options ensure your portal looks like you want it to.

Hosted PowerPivot design provides an interactive Web application experience, rather than a Microsoft Excel

experience.

Customized Hosted PowerPivot Home Pages

Customized Hosted PowerPivot Report Page

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Hosted PowerPivot 30-Day FREE Trial

Get your own site, upload your workbooks,

and share your URL. It’s that easy!

Enjoy 30 days of Pivotstream’s Manual Refresh Hosted PowerPivot offering absolutely FREE!

What Is Included

1 BI Portal Web Site with Pivotstream’s streamlined BI Portal UI

100 MB of Workbook Space

5 Consumer Logins for sharing out

2 Admin Logins for workbook authors to upload to your site

Options for Ending Your Trial

Cancel at any time through day 30 and owe nothing. No complex requirements, you can even cancel by email.

As your trial comes to an end you will automatically continue with your Manual Refresh Hosted PowerPivot

offering at just $500 a month.

Upgrade to another Hosted PowerPivot plan at any time.

Add on “a la carte” features and upgrades to any of our Hosted PowerPivot plans.

Get Started Today!

Email trials@pivotstream.com

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Hosted PowerPivot Offerings

Add-On/Upgrade

Custom URL

Custom Budget Skin

Full Custom Skin

Addtnl. 100 MB Workbook Space

1 GB SQL Server Space*

Each Additional Login

Each Additional Hub Site

Anonymous Site

Remote Training @ $250/hour

On-Site Training @ $4000/day

Set-Up Fee

$750

$1000

Priced by Pivotstream partner

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$150

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Monthly Fee

$10

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$80

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$20**

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Workbook Publishing Sites

No Auto Refresh

100 MB of Workbooks

Upload Only

1 Hub Site

Includes 5 Consumer Logins

Includes 2 Admin Logins

$0 Set-Up Fee

$500/Month

Automatic Refresh A

Direct Refresh

500 MB of Workbooks

VPN Direct Refresh

Includes 5 Hub Sites

Includes 25 Consumer Logins

Includes 5 Admin Logins

$1000 Set-Up Fee

$1800/Month

Automatic Refresh B

Database Mirroring

500 MB of Workbooks

VPN Replication

Includes 5 Hub Sites

Includes 25 Consumer Logins

Includes 5 Admin Logins

1 Authoring Workstation

12 GB SQL Server Space

$2000 Set-Up Fee

$2800/Month

Add-On and Upgrade Options

Hosted PowerPivot Product Offerings

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Hosted PowerPivot from Pivotstream

Technical Specifications and Options

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Hosted PowerPivot Data Refresh Options

Workbook Publishing Sites — No Auto Refresh

Least expensive Hosted PowerPivot option overall.

Author and refresh workbooks on your desktop, then upload to your PowerPivot site.

Re-upload new workbook versions as often as you wish.

Get started with a 30-day free trial!

Workbook Publishing Sites Diagram

Automatic Refresh Sites

Includes all the features of Workbook Publishing Sites.

Plus, your workbooks refresh automatically and always reflect the latest data. No human intervention required.

Several “data plumbing” options are available for connecting your hosted workbooks back to their original data

sources.

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Hosted PowerPivot Data Refresh Options

The two most popular automatic refresh options are:

Automatic Refresh A — Direct Refresh

Least expensive auto refresh option.

We create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection to your PowerPivot data source(s) on your existing

corporate network.

You author your workbook on your desktops against those data sources, then upload them to your PowerPivot

site.

Your workbooks automatically pull the latest data from the data sources on your network, on a schedule you

specify.

Automatic Refresh A — Direct Refresh Diagram

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Hosted PowerPivot Data Refresh Options

Automatic Refresh B — Database Mirroring

Best option for updating larger quantities of data, such as those exceeding 25 Million rows.

We create a VPN connection to replicate your SQL Server* database to a private “mirror” database in our

hosting environment.

This “mirror” database automatically stays up to date with the contents of the original database(s) on your own

network.

We provide you with one or more authoring workstations in our hosting environment to create your PowerPivot

workbooks.

Your workbooks automatically refresh against your “mirror” database in our hosting environment.

Automatic Refresh B — Database Mirroring Refresh Diagram

* We currently only have the capability to offer the replication option for SQL Server databases.

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Additional Hosted PowerPivot Options

In addition to deciding which refresh will work for you, Pivotstream offers several other ways to make your Hosted

PowerPivot BI portal meet your needs.

Custom URL

Every Hosted PowerPivot offering includes a URL that begins with “https://insights.hostedpowerpivot.com/

sites/”, where you choose a custom identifier after “sites”. However, for an additional set-up fee, we can

provide you with any available fully custom URL.

Customized UI Skins

Hosted PowerPivot offers three levels of skin customization: Standard, Budget, and Full Custom, to ensure

your BI portal looks the way you want it to.

Our Standard Customization option allows you to update several site colors, as well as, site images and

content.

If you need more customization to your site to adequately reflect your company’s branding or other stylistic

needs, you can opt to add on Budget Customization or Full Customization.

Budget Custom Skin—For a low set-up fee, we can give you some additional color, design, and font

options.

Fully Custom Skin—If you would like to create a user interface that requires layout changes or complex

design changes beyond what is offered with the Budget Custom skin, one of Pivotstream’s partners will

work with you to produce any visual style you require.

Standard Customization Report Page Standard Customization Homepage

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Additional Hosted PowerPivot Options

Additional Authoring/Admin Logins

If you want to give more team members the ability to author reports on your Hosted PowerPivot portal or ad-

minister your site, we can offer you additional logins for a small monthly fee.

Additional Consumer Logins

Pivotstream’s policy allows for one user per site login, but we offer you the ability to purchase additional logins

as needed. Bulk discounts available.

Anonymous Site

If you do not want to require your site consumers to log in to your site, we can set up anonymous access for

you for a small one-time fee.

Remote Training

We will gladly provide you with the remote training that helps make you as successful as powerful with Hosted

PowerPivot. We can help you with email, phone, or online training or project assistance on time basis.

On-Site Training

The fastest way to get up and running with PowerPivot for your business is to have one of our expert trainers

come and teach your power Excel users how to be successful with PowerPivot using your data. We have two

training price points depending on how much help you need.

Custom Solutions

We realize that companies have very unique business intelligence needs and that our standard Hosted Power-

Pivot offerings may not meet your needs as they stand. We are very open to learning about your specific needs

and working on designing a custom solution that is right for you.

Additional Workbook Space

As your need for workbook space increases, we offer additional space in 100 MB blocks for a low monthly fee.

Additional Hosted PowerPivot Hub Sites

You already have the flexibility to create as many sub sites under your primary Hosted PowerPivot hub site, but

get additional top-level hub sites for a small monthly fee.

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Cost Comparison: the Pivotstream Advantage

Do-It-Yourself Hosted PowerPivot

$40,000—$70,000 Selecting and purchasing

hardware

IT resources spent on capac-ity planning and infrastruc-ture design

Allotting for failure/replacement scenarios

$0 Hardware &

Infrastructure

$50,000—$100,000 6-12 months of SharePoint

in-house personnel/consulting

Production enviroments’ initial config phases often run several months beyond plan

Debugging and tuning continues for additional months

$0 SharePoint

Platform

$75,000—$100,000 On-demand and event-

triggered data refresh

Automatic refresh of “satellite” workbooks

Clean and simplified reporting portal develop-ment

Starts at $500 a Month

Coverage for

Gaps in the

PowerPivot

Platform

$165,000+ for first

year

$6,000 for first year

First Year

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