SharePoint 2013 Business Session at European SharePoint Conference 2014 on Business Intelligence.

1. SharePoint 2013 BI Scenarios
Andreas Rudolf ASCHAUER
Alegri International

2. About me..
Andreas Aschauer
Software Architect
SharePoint
Trainer / Consultant
Alegri International
Austria
Head of Consulting

3. Agenda
Business Intelligence
Definition
Goals
Pitfalls
Benefits
Evolution of BI
Data Analysis
Power BI
BI in SharePoint 2013
Technologies
Tools

4. What is…Business Intelligence
• Applications analysing raw organization data
• A set of activities including
– Data Mining
– Online analytical processing (OLAP)
– Querying
– Reporting

5. What is…Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Information Management
DWH
…
ECM
BPM DMS

6. Goals
Improve (Enable)
decision making
Improving processes

7. Pitfalls
• Poor data leads to poor results
• Lack of business process knowledge
• Choose the right processes / data to analyze

8. Benefits
• Identification of flawed processes or interactions
• Discovery of missing or „dirty“ data
• Higher accessibility of data for business users
• BI can transform organisations

9. A tale of Beer and Diapers
Using Data Mining a major retailer found unknown correlations between
purchases

10. A tale of Beer and Diapers
Time
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Demographics
Males 25-35
Purchased Items
Beer
Diapers
…

11. A tale of Beer and Diapers
+ 20 %

12. BI in SharePoint 2013
Team / Self Service
• Excel / Excel Services
• Power View
• Power Pivot
Corporate
• Performance Point Services
• Reporting Services
• Visio Services
• BPM Components

13. Considerations
Governance
• Who are the users
• Where are the results
stored
• How to make sure data is
accessible
• How to make sure data is
correctly interpreted
Scope
• Organizational Scope
• Purpose
• How to handle conclusions

14. Excel / Excel Services
• Users: End Users
• Location: File Systems, SharePoint
• Scope: Team Level
• Little governance
• Little control over access and data integrity/interpretation
• How to improve: Excel >> Excel Services

15. Power View
• Interactive Dashboards
• Maps
• Presentation-Ready data analysis
• Embedded in Excel Sheets

16. Power Pivot
• In-Memory analytic data modelling engine
• Embedded in Excel
• Allows definition of relationships between datasources

17. DEMO
PowerView & PowerPivot

18. Visio Services
• “Static” diagramming engine
• Data-Connected diagrams
• SharePoint – Hosted
• Governed by SharePoint Service Administration
• Ability to create “Mashups”

19. DEMO
Visio & Visio Services
Mashups & Connected Diagrams

20. Reporting Services
• “Static” reporting engine
• Report designer
• Export functionality for printing
• Governed by SharePoint Service Administration

21. Reporting Services
• Users: ITPro / Developers
• Location: File Systems, SharePoint, SQL Server
• Scope: Department / Corporate Level
• Strict governance
• Full control over access and data integrity/interpretation
• How to improve: ??

22. Performance Point Services
• Designer (Stand-Alone Client Software)
• Design of interactive dashboards
• Definition of Scorecards, KPI’s, Metrics and Thresholds
• Integration of multiple data sources
• Purely web (SharePoint) based
• Mobile access
• Governed by SharePoint Service Administration

23. Performance Point Services
• Users: IT Pro / Analyst
• Location: SharePoint
• Scope: Department/Corporate Level
• Strict governance
• Full control over access and data integrity/interpretation
• Clean layer to integrate data from disparate sources

24. Performance Point Services
Performance Point
Excel Services
Excel
Datasources
Excel Sheets
SQL
Server
Analysis
Services
Web
Services
..

25. BPM & Workflow Components

26. Procedures vs. Practices

27. Process Data
• Analysis of process bottlenecks
• Identification of people involved
• Measures on duration and throughput

28. Onward to Data Analysis
• Microsoft Power BI
– Cloud-Based
– In-Memory Modeling and Analysis
– Collaborative
– Mobile Access
– Q&A > Ask your data

29. Power BI Overview
Discover &
Combine
Model & Analyze Visualize
Share
&
Collaborate

30. Discover & Combine
PowerQuery in Excel
•Web page
•Excel or CSV file
•XML file
•Text file
•Folder
•SQL Server database
•Windows Azure SQL Database
•HDInsight
•Access database
•Oracle database
•IBM DB2 database
•MySQL database
•SharePoint List
•OData feed
•Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
•Windows Azure Marketplace
•Active Directory
•Facebook
•SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

31. Analyze
PowerPivot in Excel
• Build data models
• Create KPI‘s
• Create hierarchies
• Load 100‘s of millions of rows into memory

32. Visualize
PowerView &
PowerMap

33. Collaborate
Power BI Sites in SharePoint

34. Ask your data..
Ask questions in natural
language

35. Microsoft BI Solution Builder
• What BI capabilities are available to me?
• What do I want to achieve?
• What do I need for that ?
http://bisolutionbuilder.com/

36. Wrap up
• Identify approaches to Business Intelligence
• Identify capabilities
• Choose to right set of tools
• Different scenarios might require different approaches (Team BI / Corporate BI)

37. Next steps
& enjoy ESPC 14

38. Thank you !
Andreas Aschauer
aaschauer@Alegri.eu
@aschauera
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