Self-Service BI with SQL Server 2012
Dan English Principal Business Intelligence Consultant
Superior Consulting Services, LLC [email protected]
Speaker Background
• Developing with Microsoft technologies for over 14 years
• Focused on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence since 2004
• Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
• Architect and develop dashboard solutions for enterprise reporting and monitoring
• Experienced in ETL and Analysis Services development, requirements gathering, and data modeling
• Microsoft MN BI User Group 2011/2012 – Leadership Board
• Twitter – http://twitter.com/denglishbi
• Vimeo Videos - http://vimeo.com/denglishbi
• PASSMN 2009/2010 – Executive Board Chair (President)
Dan English http://denglishbi.wordpress.com @denglishbi
New Book!
Unlock the power of Microsoft Power View and build rich BI reports with just a few clicks
http://tinyurl.com/powerviewbook
SCS Background
• Founded in 1997, SCS is a technical consulting firm focused exclusively on Microsoft technologies to provide custom solutions
• Headquartered in Burnsville, MN • Microsoft Gold Partner since 2006 • Microsoft Managed Partner • Provide solutions in the areas of Business Intelligence,
Reporting, Application Development, Networking, SharePoint, and Special Projects
• Industry recognized authorities via books, speaker engagements, and direct assistance to Microsoft
Session Outline
• Microsoft Business Intelligence Overview
• What’s new in PowerPivot & DAX
• PowerPivot Demo
• What is Power View (“Crescent”)
• Functionality in Power View
• Power View Demo
• Questions
Quick Audience Poll
How many are from the IT side of the house? Information workers / business side?
How many have Excel 2010 deployed?
How many are currently using PowerPivot? In production? With SharePoint?
Anyone currently using or deploying SQL 2012?
How many have not seen a Power View (“Crescent”) demo?
Microsoft BI Overview
Microsoft Business Intelligence Overview
Analysis Services
Reporting Services
Integration Services
Master Data Services
SharePoint
Collaboration Excel
Workbooks PowerPivot Applications
SharePoint Dashboards &
Scorecards
Most widely deployed EIM & BI Platform
Most Broadly adopted Productivity & Collaboration
Tools
Odata Feeds
LOB Apps
Seamless Transition Across BI Spectrum
PowerPivot For Excel PowerPivot For SharePoint Analysis Services
Our Context
BI Solution created by
power user. Context is
for a small team & it’s
managed on a server.
My Context
BI solution created by
user. Context is only for
user & exists as
document.
The Org’s Context
BI Solution created by IT,
Established corporate
context & is reusable,
scalable and backed up.
Empowered Aligned
State of Business Intelligence
Agile BI Out of The Box, Forrester Research, Inc., April 22, 2010
32% of Excel users are comfortable with using it for “Advanced Analysis”
e.g., PivotTables
Only 28% of potential BI users have any meaningful access
31% of all BI initiatives partially meet or don’t
meet the business goals originally set
Knowledge workers spend too much time looking for, not enough time analyzing the information.
Lines between producers and consumers of information have largely disappeared.
Requirements change way too fast for IT and traditional technology to keep up.
PowerPivot & DAX
What’s new in PowerPivot?
What’s new in PowerPivot?
What’s new DAX?
POWERPIVOT Demo
Power View (Project “Crescent”)
What is Power View?
Power View is an interactive data exploration
and visual presentation experience.
Highly Visual Design Experience
Presentation-ready at all times
Rich metadata-driven interactivity
Power View
• Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into persuasive information
• Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint • Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom session and
ability to export to interactive PowerPoint slidedeck
• Fully integrated with PowerPivot and Tabular SSAS • Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying • Zero configuration highlighting and filtering • Animated trending and comparisons
• Interactive, web-based authoring, and sharing of information • Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns • Powerful data layout with banding, callout, and small multiples
visualizations
Report Designer Power View Report Builder
Embedded Operational Self-Service
Styles
Functionality in Power View
Drag and Drop to Canvas
Charts
Sorting
Multiple measure support
More than 20 series allowed
Color (series) support in scatter charts
Image support
DirectQuery support
Show items with no data
Number formatting on tables and matrix
Slicers cross filter
Filters
Measure Filters
Data Region Filters
Search
Multiple pages (views)
Printing support
Export to PowerPoint
Styles
POWER VIEW Demo
Power View Demo Screenshot
Summary
• Microsoft BI provides end-to-end solution • personal -> team -> organizational
• PowerPivot in Excel provides comfortable
environment for individual data mashups & analysis
• Power View is a highly interactive data exploration tool
Resources
• Microsoft Business Intelligence • http://tinyurl.com/msftbi
• PowerPivot • http://tinyurl.com/msftpowerpivot
• PowerPivotPro (Rob Collie) Blog • http://www.powerpivotpro.com
• Power View Overview • http://tinyurl.com/mspowerview
• Power View Samples – 6 samples to test out • http://tinyurl.com/msbitryit
QUESTIONS
THANK YOU! [email protected]