Self-Service BI with Power Pivot and Power View

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Self-Service BI with

Angel AbundezRegional Practice Director, PacWest Business Intelligence/SQL

Excel &

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About Me

AngelAbundez

[email protected]

angelstreamline.com

@angelstreamline

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Agenda

The Ask

Typical Answers

Excel and Power BI

SharePoint BI

Fun Demo

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The AskHULK WANT

DATA!!!!

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Typical Answers

1. Submit a support ticket in writing to [email protected]. 

2. Specify a category and a priority.3. Don’t mark it Urgent unless its 

mission-critical.4. What data do you need? Maybe 

we’ll create a report for you in 1 week.

5. Maybe I’ll email you a csv file

and by the way…

YOU’RE WELCOME

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The Ask

Data ready to analyze, find correlations and patterns

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Typical Answers

Aw damn. I lost it.

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Don’t let this happen to you

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Excel and Power BI• Data blend large or small data sets

• Calculate Metrics w/ Excel-like formulas (DAX)

• In-memory xVelocity technology

• High compression

Power Pivot

• Pull data off the web• Web APIs• Web pages• Facebook• SharePoint• Hadoop

• Consolidate Multiple files

Power Query

• Interactive Data Visualization• Scatter Plots• Maps• Free form dashboard design

Power View

• 3D rendered Map imaging• Record time-lapse videos of how data changes in geographies

Power Map

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DemoExcel Power Pivot and Power View

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SharePoint BI

Excel Services• Don’t need Excel on your machine

• Drag and Drop in SP 2013• Manage Data Refresh in Power Pivot

• Put Workflows on analyses published by your team

• Viewable on Mobile Browsers

Power View•Analyze and Develop Dashboards from…•published Power Pivot workbooks

•Analysis Services via BISM or RDS•Embed in your site or portal•Currently on Silverlight with OnPrem

•HTML5 coming in SharePoint Online. OnPrem TBD

Reporting Services• Shared Data Sets• Shared Data Sources• Report Builder Web Parts• Self-Service User Alerts

Performance Point• Dashboards with standard look/feel

• Drill to Details• Change visualizations in the browser

• Decomposition Tree

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DemoPublish Excel workbooks to SharePoint

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SQL Server 2012

Import PowerPivot models into SQL Server Analysis Services

Tabular Model• PowerPivot in Visual Studio• Row-based security• Partitioning

Multidimensional OLAP• Can run Power View reports using RDS content type and SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU 4

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DemoMake tweaks to Tabular model in SSAS