Speaker: Tomislav Piasevoli
Microsoft SharePoint Server is a collaboration platform that in its Business Intelligence (BI) part relies on Microsoft SQL Server platform from where both the Power View, a tool for visual data analysis, and PowerPivot, a tool for data modeling originate. This session shows how to create a PowerPivot data model in Excel 2013, and how to analyze that model in Power View installed as a part of SharePoint 2013 BI platform.
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PowerPivot, Power View and SharePoint Server
1. PowerPivot, Power View and
SharePoint 2013 Server
TOMISLAV PIASEVOLI, PIASEVOLI ANALYTICS LTD
SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS
ZAGREB, 11/28/2012
3. Tomislav Piasevoli
• Business Intelligence (BI) Specialist
• 10 years of experience - Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
• Book author: „MDX with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services:
Cookbook„, Packt Publishing Ltd., 2011.
• Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
for SQL Server since 2009.
4. Abstract
• Microsoft SharePoint Server
• Business Intelligence (BI) part relies on Microsoft SQL Server platform
• Power View, a tool for visual data analysis
• PowerPivot, a tool for data modeling
• This session shows how to:
• create a PowerPivot data model in Excel 2013
• analyze that model in Power View
• installed as a part of SharePoint 2013 BI platform
11. PowerPivot
• analytical engine for self-service and team BI
• extracted from SQL Server Analysis Services
• to work as part of Excel or SharePoint
• comes in two flavors:
• Excel (self-service BI)
• part of Excel 2013
• add-in for Excel 2010
• SharePoint add-in (team BI)
• installed using SQL Server 2012 (+ SP1) for SharePoint 2013
• installed using SQL Server 2008 R2 for SharePoint 2010
12. Power View
• a tool for creating highly interactive, presentation-ready reports
• intuitive data exploration
• encourages ad-hoc reporting
• comes in two flavors:
• Excel (self-service BI)
• part of Excel 2013
• Excel 2010 or previous don’t have it
• SharePoint add-in (team BI)
• installed using SQL Server 2012 (+ SP1) for SharePoint 2013
• installed using SQL Server 2008 R2 for SharePoint 2010
13. The idea behind
• SCENARIO 1 – Self-service BI
• create a PowerPivot data model in Excel 2013
• analyze the data in Excel 2013 using Excel Pivot Tables and Power
View
• refresh the data on demand
• enhance the data model as you go
• save the model, data analysis and visualization in the same file
14. The idea behind
• SCENARIO 2 – Team BI
• create a PowerPivot data model in Excel 2013
• publish the data model to SharePoint 2013 and create connections to it
• analyze the model using:
• Excel Services and/or Power View on SharePoint
• Excel (Pivot Tables and/or PowerView)
• enhance the model locally, then publish again (be careful –
dependency)
• collaborate
• data refresh is scheduled on a periodical basis
• maintenained by SharePoint
15. The idea behind
• SCENARIO 3– Enterprise BI
• move the once created PowerPivot data model in Excel 2013 to SQL
Server Analysis Services as a Tabular model
• create a connection for it in SharePoint 2013
• analyze the model using:
• Excel Services and/or Power View on SharePoint
• Excel (Pivot Tables and/or PowerView)
• model is enhanced on a server (SQL Server) by IT
• collaborate
• data refresh with even finer grain (less than a day)
• support and maintenance by IT department or 3rd party
18. Summary
• SharePoint as the platform for Microsoft BI
• Easy to start with:
• PowerPivot for data modeling
• Pover View for visual data exploration
• Excel and Excel Services for data analysis
• Later:
• SQL Server 2012 and/or PowerPivot
• Excel, Excel Services, Power View, Reports, Dashboards, ...
• Models are upgradeable (PowerPivot -> SQL Server)
19. References
• „Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View” by Brian Larson,
Mark Davis, Dan English, Paul Purington; May 2012, McGraw-
Hill Osborne Media
• „Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning”
by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari; October 2010, Microsoft
Press
• „Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: Tabular
Modeling” by Teo Lachev; February 2012, Prologika Press