Building the Perfect BI Semantic Model

for Power View

Ashish Singh Scalability Experts

Introduction to BISM & Power View

Building a BISM model

Optimizing the model for Power View

Tips and tricks how to develop the right model

Set reporting properties

Consuming BISM from SharePoint

Power View reports

One Model for all End User Experiences

Client Tools

Data model

Business logic

and queries

Data access

Team BI PowerPivot for SharePoint

Personal BI PowerPivot for Excel

Organizational BI Analysis Services

Power View is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience Highly visual design

experience

Rich meta-driven interactivity

Presentation-ready at all times

Provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers

A Power View report must be based on a deployed tabular BI Semantic Model PowerPivot workbook in a SharePoint library

Tabular model hosted on a tabular instance of Analysis Services

DAX Tabular Queries are used to query the model

Ordinarily, the tabular BI Semantic Model needs to be optimized for the Power View experience

Server(s): SharePoint Server 2010 SP1

SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint

Client: Supported browsers:

Windows Vista: IE7 32-bit, FireFox 4

Windows 7: IE8 32-bit, IE9 32-bit, FireFox 4, Safari

Note the InPrivate browsing feature of IE is not supported

Silverlight 4 (Silverlight 5 by RTM)

Ashish Singh

Demo Power View on a perfect Tabular Model

Demo Power View on a PowerPivot model

Move PowerPivot workbook to Tabular model

Create a connection to the Tabular model in SharePoint

Optimize the model for Power View

Multiple Views in a Single Report

Export to Power Point

PowerPivot Gallery Preview Images

Multiple View Navigation

Sorting

More Chart Features

Chart Highlighting Enhancements

Number Formatting for Tables and Matrix

Slicers Cross Filter Other Slicers

Per Data Region Filtering

Measure Filters and Filter Restatement

Search in Filters

Drag Your Data to the Canvas

Print it!

Support for DirectQuery mode

Database Image Support

Show Items with No Data

Measures as Non-Measures

All New Canvas Look

Overlap

Summary

Introduction to BISM & Power View

Building a BISM model

Optimizing the model for Power View

Tips and tricks how to develop the right model

Set reporting properties

Consuming BISM from SharePoint

Power View reports

Q & A