Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation 2012 Jen Stirrup MVP CopperBlue Consulting
Jan 13, 2015
Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation 2012
Jen StirrupMVPCopperBlue Consulting
Who am I?
Jen Stirrup Specialist in Data VisualisationMicrosoft SQL Server MVPTwitter: @JenStirrup @thinkcopperblueE: [email protected]: www.copperblueconsulting.comW: www.jenstirrup.com
‘Traditional’ BIUpsides Downsides
Flexible:Can model anything
Powerful:Enterprise scale
Secure:Fine grain control
Near real time:15 minute refresh
Control:Process & versions
Rigid:hard to change
Hard:MDX isn’t easy
Familiar:Lots of expertise
Downsides
End User BIUpsides
Easy to Use:users get it
Mashups:make your own
Agile:Deploy in a click or 2
Collaboration:Between IW & IT
Chaos:IT can’t manage it
Refresh:Could be a day out
No Downsides
End User BI in SQL Server 2012Upsides
Easy to Use:users get it
Mashups:make your own
Agile:Deploy in a click or 2
Collaboration:Between IW & IT
Secure:Fine grain control
Control:Process & versions
Powerful:Enterprise scale
Cool:End user analysis
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Design tools..
BI Development Studio
Report Builder
Power View
PowerPivot
Data Mining for Excel
SQL Server
Dashboard Designer
Excel Services
Visio services
SharePoint Chart
SharePoint
Excel
Access
Visio
Office
What is PowerPivot?
PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI
solutions using familiar Excel Interface
What is PowerPivot?
Subversive: Business Intelligence in the hands of users, not 18-month plus projectsWhat is PowerPivot?Two types:
Free Excel add-inSharepoint presentation layer
Strength: Vertipaq column-oriented data storeScaleability
What is PowerPivot?
Diagram View
Advanced Tab – Perspectives
Show Details
Demo
What is Power View
Power View is an interactive data exploration and visual
presentation experience.
Architecture
RS Shared Service
SharePoint Farm
Crescent client
App Server
Data sources
Analysis Services SP Integrated
PowerPivotSystem Service
AS Server
Web Front End
SSRS Addin for SharePoint
PowerPivotWeb Service
Excel PowerPivot Model
SQL Server BIDSBISM Model
Architecture
Crescent only works from Tabular BISM for now
Crescent and alerting depend on SharePoint
Silverlight based
Yet….
Demo
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Trellis Chart
Motion Chart
Parallel Co-Ordinates
Pie Charts
Power View
Efficiency - Power View does not get all of the information in one goIf the underlying data isn’t joined together, then the ‘missing’ tables are greyed out.Web client based on a tabular model in SharePoint Server 2010
PowerPivot workbookSSAS Tabular model
Power View
Highlight and filter dataSort dataBased on Dimensions and MeasuresAutomatically synchronises axis
Reporting Services
Sharepoint Integrated mode is, well, more integrated!
Rsreportserver.configReport Server logs now stored in Sharepoint hiveSOAP API is no longer supported
Reporting Services Design Future
White Space – use ConsumeContainerWhitespace
Rendered page by page
Nested Sub Report preserved in Excel
Questions
Get in touch!
Jen Stirrup Specialist in Data VisualisationMicrosoft SQL Server MVPTwitter: @JenStirrup @thinkcopperblueE: [email protected]: www.copperblueconsulting.comW: www.jenstirrup.com