Sydney SharePoint User Group
Business Intelligence with SharePoint
Nazish Qasim Sr. SharePoint ConsultantWebVine
Agenda
»Understand BI offerings from Microsoft
»Comparison
»Walkthrough
»Demo
History of BI
Source:http://de.slideshare.net/perficientinc/business-reporting-with-sharepoint-and-selfservice-bi-with-powerpivot
Microsoft’s BI Stack
» Connect and Empower People
» Cut costs with a unified infrastructure
» Rapidly response to business needs
Excel Services
• Load, calculate, and display Excel workbooks on SharePoint.
• Reuse and share Excel workbooks on portals and dashboards.
• Control what data is displayed
• Maintain a single version of your Excel workbook
• Capitalize the power of Excel in your applications
PowerPivot
• Powerful data mashup and modeling• In-memory technologies analytics• Bring self-service and team BI to everyone• Work with over a million rows of data in
seconds• Integrate reusable data from
heterogeneous data sources• Connect everyone with rich integrated
features• Comes in two flavours
PowerView
• Tool for visual data analysis• Tool for creating highly interactive,
presentation-ready reports• Intuitive data exploration• Encourages ad-hoc reporting• Comes in two versions• Data visualization of PowerPivot
models and SQL Server Analysis Services databases
PerformancePoint
• Tool to create interactive, context-driven
dashboards with balanced scorecards, key
performance indicators, analytic reports, and filters.
• Leverages SP2010’s security
• 100% synchronized content integration between
the BI Center and Dashboard Designer
• Dashboard, dashboard components, and reports are
available for immediate use in web parts
Reporting Services
• Tools and services to help you create, deploy, and manage reports for
your organization
• Programming features that enable you to extend and customize your
reporting functionality
• Create interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from
relational, multidimensional, or XML-based data sources.
• Reports can include rich data visualization, including charts, maps
• Publish reports, schedule report processing, or access reports on-
demand.
• Native mode or SharePoint mode
BI - Technology View
RelationalDatabases
BusinessApplications
Files OData Feeds Cloud ServicesDeployedBI Semantic
Models
Third-PartyReportsExcel PowerPivotPower ViewPerformance Point
SQL ServerData Warehouse
SQL ServerIntegration Services
SQL ServerAnalysis Services
SQL ServerReportingServices
SharePoint Server
Excel Services
Search
Visio Services
PerformancePoint ServicesPowerPivot Add-In
Reporting Services Power View
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Levels of BI
On-Premise and Cloud
Personal BI
You create your own workbook
and use the rich features of Excel to interact with
the workbook and the data it contains.
Self-Service BI
You create your workbook and publish it to
SharePoint for wider
consumption.
Corporate BI
“Professionally” authored using
SharePoint, Reporting
Services, and PerformancePoint. Has lasting power.
Comparison
Source:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg537617(v=office.14).aspx
Comparison
PowerPivot PerformancePoint
Data
SQL/OLTP, view all imported data XML feeds, tabular, Reporting Service
Analysis Services SQL, Tabular, PowerPivot XML Feeds, cannot view detailed data
Data Manipulation
UI: Relationships, calculated columns/measures with auto-fill, automated PivotTable conversion to DAX Language(s): DAX, MDX, T-SQL
MDX No UI manipulations
Data RefreshScheduled (SP) Manual (Excel)
Live connection / upon browser request/refresh
Visualization
PowerPivot tables & charts All other features available in Excel Scorecard, Strategy Maps, Extendable Pivot Table/Chart areas, web pages
KPI’s, Charts, Data Grids, Scorecards, Extendable Dashboards, Strategy Maps, External Reports, Web pages What-if Analysis, some visualization types available only to Analysis Services
Slicing & Dicing
PivotTable & Charts Slicers All other filter, find, and sort features available in Excel ‘Native’ Multidimensional drilling
Drill up/down, Top/Bottom N & value filters, Decomposition Tree, Independent reusable filters Multidimensional drilling for non-OLAP
Performs at its Best / Pros Supports Does Not Support / Cons
Taken from http://www.slideshare.net/VeriPoint/ms-powerpivot-performancepoint-2010-introduction
Summary
• Balance between Data Management vs Analytics• Reporting Services/Excel for operational managers• Excel PowerPivot/View for analysts and mid-level
managers• PerformancePoint/Reporting Services for
Corporate/Executive managers
