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SharePoint Saturday Boston
December 2010Chris McNulty
See Beyond the Numbers:Data Visualization in SharePoint 2010
About Me• Working with SharePoint technologies since 2000/2001• 20 years consulting and financial services technology
(Santander, John Hancock, GMO, State Street)• MBA in Investment Management from Boston College
Carroll School of Management• Write and speak often on Microsoft IW technologies • Microsoft MCSE/MCTS/MSA/MVTS
About KMA• Full-service IT consulting firm established in 1995• 29 employees: Partner, PM, Analyst, Developer, QA • Microsoft technology focus:
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner / Working with SharePoint technologies since 2001
• Specialties in • Collaboration: Portals, Communities and Content
Management• Insight: Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence• Productivity: Forms and Office Client
Customization, Mekko Graphics (ISV)
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Agenda• Goals, Terms & Surrounding Technology• Complexity Levels• Technology Overview and Demos
– Simple List and Chart– Excel Services– Power Pivot– Pivot– BCS & SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)– Performance Point 2010– Mapping
• Summary• Resources• Questions and Answers• Contact Information
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 … the bright frontier
Eastern Long Island, July 4, 2010
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Complexity Levels of These Solutions
Time
Cost
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Goals for BI Design
• Answering the known questions about our business
• Allowing users to self-discover patterns and answers to questions we haven’t yet been asked
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Terms
• BCS – Business Connectivity Services• SSRS – SQL Server Reporting Services• Cube – a prebuilt matrix of data aggregations, hosted in SQL
Server Analysis Services• Windows Azure DataMarket (fka Project Dallas) –
Microsoft initiative to create publicly subscribed data services hosted on Azure and accessed via WCF, PowerPivot, etc. (http://www.sqlazureservices.com)
• Pivot - Interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of a massive collection of information
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SharePoint BI Evolution
Chart Web Part
Excel Services• Excel Web
Access• PowerPivot
Enabling technologies• Business
Connectivity Services
• SQL Reporting Services
• Pivot• Dallas
Performance Point• Dashboards• Analysis
Services
Custom Solutions• Mapping• Web Parts• Etc.
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SharePoint Charting
• Native to SharePoint (Web Part)
• Code-free solution – uses web part and native lists
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SharePoint Charting
• Data sources– Other Lists (Site Collection)– BCS/Business Data Catalog– Excel Services
• Standard Types– Bar, Area, Line, Bubble, Financial, Pie, Radar, Polar, Gantt,
Range, Error Bar, Box Plot, Funnel, Pyramid
• Typical use - quick visualization of SharePoint data• Quick tip – use the wizard
DEMO – Chart Web Part
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Excel Services
• Use the world’s #1 BI modeling tool
• Render data, charts, interface using native Excel components (e.g. Slicers)
• Data stored in Excel
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Excel Services
• Host a presentation layer using Excel Services– Closely related to Excel Web Access
• Use native SharePoint Status Indicators (KPIs) – Can also work with lists
• Render Excel 2010 functions (e.g. Slicers) without Excel 2010 on all clients
• Use when users are skilled in Excel modeling and charting and data lives in spreadsheets
• Quick tip: understand SSA’s
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PowerPivot
• “Project Gemini” – host 1-10MM row datasets
• Excel and SharePoint components
• Data doesn’t live in spreadsheet
• Released with SQL Server 2008 R2 but doesn’t explicitly require the R2 Engine
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PowerPivot• Like Excel Web Access except underlying data can be sourced from:
– SQL, Analysis Services Cube, SSRS Report– Access– Power Pivot/Excel– Data Feeds (XML, Atom, Azure, WCF OData, Dallas)– Oracle, Teradata, Sybase, DB2– ODBC– Text files
• Excel optimized to handle data management and memory cache locally• SharePoint builds cache and optimizes for server web access• Use when Excel modeling skills are high but data is too large or too
heterogeneous to keep in multiple Excel spreadsheets• Quick tip: www.powerpivotgeeks.net
DEMO - PowerPivot
Pivot
• “Interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun”
• Interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web
• Create a “collection”- underlying schema is CXML or Collection XML.
• View in SharePoint via Silverlight viewer• Complexity: Excel tool available • Tip: http://getpivot.com
DEMO - Pivot
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Business Connectivity Services
• Read write access to external data sources in SP2010 (aka Business Data Connectivity)
• Pull data into SharePoint user interface
• Push data into external sources
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Business Connectivity Services
• Native Support for data from SQL, .NET, Windows Communication Frameworks (e.g. Dallas)
• Configured through SharePoint Designer 2010• Republish data to consuming applications (e.g.
Outlook 2010)• Use when key data lives outside SharePoint direct
control – e.g. accounting systems• Quick tip: Secure Store Service is needed
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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• “Code free” but requires development tools
• Designed using Business Intelligence Developer Studio
• Host in SQL Server or SharePoint
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PerformancePoint 2010
• Dashboard Designer (browser downloadable)
• Integrates Excel Services, SSRS, and Performance Point Elements
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PerformancePoint 2010
• Sophisticated self service modeling• Decomposition Tree• Ideal for SSAS but also work with standard data
sources (lists, SQL)• Requires true SQL development to build and
maintain SSAS cubes for KPIs and scorecards
DEMO – PerformancePoint
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Mapping
• IDC reports that nearly 80% of business data has a location component
• Make business tools as engaging as what’s on the web
• Use cases: – Customer base / trade areas– Routing and shipping– Targeted marketing– Supply chain & disruption resolution
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Mapping
DEMO - Mapping
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SummaryTechnology Pros Cons Sample Use Case
SharePoint Lists and Charts
Simple code free solutions
Simple data aggregations Users understand how to chart their own data
Excel Services User familiarity Limited to Excel data sources
Users love Excel charts!
PowerPivot Large datasets Requires some Excel 2010 Data is too big for Excel
SQL Reporting Services Commonly used SQL query techniques
Not an end user tool; entry level development skills
Need to print large multipage reports; export to Excel
Performance Point and Analysis Services
Rich scorecard and reporting environments, aggregates other elements like SSRS
Requires more development sophistication
On screen data exploration of prebuilt analyses
Pivot Large datasets, can be built by Excel plugin for the power user or by developer
Image collection time-consuming to build/standardize
Each data item has visual component
Mapping Varying solution levels, user familiarity
Potential licensing complexity
Each data item has location component
Custom solutions More complex solution More effort Mapping!
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2010 BI Solutions in SharePoint
Printing or exporting
Visual NavigationLarge Datasets
Small Datasets
Mapping
Pivot
SQL Reporting Services
PerformancePoint
Excel Services
Chart Web Part
PowerPivot
SharePoint list
KPI / Status Indicator
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Resources - General• From Microsoft:
– Business Intelligence: http://www.microsoft.com/bi/ – SharePoint 2010 site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com– SharePoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx– BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/
– From KMA– Webinars, white papers and blogs at www.kma-llc.net
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Resources: Mapping• Bing Developer Center & Bing Maps Customer Gallery:– http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers/
• Bing Maps Blog:– http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/
• GIM International – online magazine of geomatics:– http://www.gim-international.com/index.php
Resources: Pivot• Microsoft Live Labs Pivot site– http://www.getpivot.com/
• Pivot Viewer control for Silverlight:– http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/
• Pivot Collection Gallery: http://www.getpivot.com/collections/
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• Questions?• Evaluations• Contact Me• Ask the Experts• Prizes!
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