Self-Service BI with SQL Server 2012

Self-Service BI with SQL Server 2012

Dan English Principal Business Intelligence Consultant

Superior Consulting Services, LLC [email protected]

Speaker Background

• Developing with Microsoft technologies for over 14 years

• Focused on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence since 2004

• Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)

• Architect and develop dashboard solutions for enterprise reporting and monitoring

• Experienced in ETL and Analysis Services development, requirements gathering, and data modeling

• Microsoft MN BI User Group 2011/2012 – Leadership Board

• Twitter – http://twitter.com/denglishbi

• Vimeo Videos - http://vimeo.com/denglishbi

• PASSMN 2009/2010 – Executive Board Chair (President)

Dan English http://denglishbi.wordpress.com @denglishbi

New Book!

Unlock the power of Microsoft Power View and build rich BI reports with just a few clicks

http://tinyurl.com/powerviewbook

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, speaker engagements, and direct assistance to Microsoft

Session Outline

• Microsoft Business Intelligence Overview

• What’s new in PowerPivot & DAX

• PowerPivot Demo

• What is Power View (“Crescent”)

• Functionality in Power View

• Power View Demo

• Questions

Quick Audience Poll

How many are from the IT side of the house? Information workers / business side?

How many have Excel 2010 deployed?

How many are currently using PowerPivot? In production? With SharePoint?

Anyone currently using or deploying SQL 2012?

How many have not seen a Power View (“Crescent”) demo?

Microsoft BI Overview

Microsoft Business Intelligence Overview

Analysis Services

Reporting Services

Integration Services

Master Data Services

SharePoint

Collaboration Excel

Workbooks PowerPivot Applications

SharePoint Dashboards &

Scorecards

Most widely deployed EIM & BI Platform

Most Broadly adopted Productivity & Collaboration

Tools

Odata Feeds

LOB Apps

Seamless Transition Across BI Spectrum

PowerPivot For Excel PowerPivot For SharePoint Analysis Services

Our Context

BI Solution created by

power user. Context is

for a small team & it’s

managed on a server.

My Context

BI solution created by

user. Context is only for

user & exists as

document.

The Org’s Context

BI Solution created by IT,

Established corporate

context & is reusable,

scalable and backed up.

Empowered Aligned

State of Business Intelligence

Agile BI Out of The Box, Forrester Research, Inc., April 22, 2010

32% of Excel users are comfortable with using it for “Advanced Analysis”

e.g., PivotTables

Only 28% of potential BI users have any meaningful access

31% of all BI initiatives partially meet or don’t

meet the business goals originally set

Knowledge workers spend too much time looking for, not enough time analyzing the information.

Lines between producers and consumers of information have largely disappeared.

Requirements change way too fast for IT and traditional technology to keep up.

PowerPivot & DAX

What’s new in PowerPivot?

What’s new in PowerPivot?

What’s new DAX?

POWERPIVOT 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

Styles

Functionality in Power View

Drag and Drop to Canvas

Charts

Sorting

Multiple measure support

More than 20 series allowed

Color (series) support in scatter charts

Image support

DirectQuery support

Show items with no data

Number formatting on tables and matrix

Slicers cross filter

Filters

Measure Filters

Data Region Filters

Search

Multiple pages (views)

Printing support

Export to PowerPoint

Styles

POWER VIEW Demo

Power View Demo Screenshot

Summary

• Microsoft BI provides end-to-end solution • personal -> team -> organizational

• PowerPivot in Excel provides comfortable

environment for individual data mashups & analysis

• Power View is a highly interactive data exploration tool

Resources

• Microsoft Business Intelligence • http://tinyurl.com/msftbi

• PowerPivot • http://tinyurl.com/msftpowerpivot

• PowerPivotPro (Rob Collie) Blog • http://www.powerpivotpro.com

• Power View Overview • http://tinyurl.com/mspowerview

• Power View Samples – 6 samples to test out • http://tinyurl.com/msbitryit

QUESTIONS

THANK YOU! [email protected]