SQL Server Data Discovery with PowerPivot

SQL Server Data Mining and Power Pviot (Data Discovery)Level 300
Dr. Eduardo Castro Martinez
Arquitecto
ecastro@grupoasesor.net
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://tiny.cc/comwindows
Twitter edocastro

What Will We Cover?
•What is PowerPivot for SharePoint
•Managing PowerPivot for SharePoint

Agenda
Review
•Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint
•Working With PowerPivotWorkbooks

Evolution of BI
Self-Service BI
Traditional BI
Provision
Analysis
Reports
Dashboards & Scorecards
Data
Staging
Analysis
Cubes
Data Warehouse
ETL/Data Quality
Specialized Tools
End Users
Spreadsheets
Existing Data
IT Pro
?
LOB Applications
Data Marts
Files
IT has been busy keeping up with the growing demand for BI…
Harvesting existing data, cleaning it and staging it …
To provision reports, dashboards & scorecards to meet End User demand.
But business is outpacing IT and End Users are demanding Agility …
Rapidly breaking down the barriers of Control with Self-Service BI!
Is it possible to balance Control with Agility?

Evolution of BI
Self-Service BI
Traditional BI
Niche Startups

Microsoft Business Intelligence
Most Broadly adopted Productivity & Collaboration Tools
SharePoint
Scorecards
Excel
Workbooks
PowerPivot Applications
SharePoint
Search & Dashboards
Analysis
Services
Reporting
Services
Most widely deployed EIM & BI Platform
Integration
Services
Master Data
Services
Odata
Feeds
LOB Apps

Background Self-Service Business Intelligence
New paradigm
“Business intelligence for the masses”
“Managed self-service business intelligence”
Put simple, powerful BI tools in the hands of “knowledge workers”
Familiar tools: Excel
People who own the data
Excel spreadsheet, Access database or SharePoint list data
Reality: Office power users

PowerPivotTechnologies
Ability to easily create self-service BI applications using familiar tools (MS Excel)
Easy to update and modify without being a BI developer
Don’t need to install SQL Server 2008 R2

Analysis Services in VertiPaq Mode
In SQL Server 2008 R2, the VertiPaq storage engine is used for in-memory multidimensional databases within
Excel workbooks
Includes PowerPivot workbooks that have been published to a SharePoint site.

PowerPivot for Excel is the only client that is supported for creating and querying in-memory databases that use VertiPaq mode.
The multidimensional database that you create in PowerPivot tools is contained within the Excel workbook
You cannot access the VertiPaq storage engine by using traditional SSAS clients and tools

What is Microsoft PowerPivot?
PowerPivot for Excel: Free Technology
Excel add-in that enhances Excel’s capabilities for creating and editing PowerPivot applications. Requires Excel 2010
Runs best with lots of RAM and Windows x64
PowerPivot for SharePoint: Licensed
SharePoint 2010 extension that enhances SharePoint’s enterprise capabilities for sharing and managing PowerPivot applications. Requires SharePoint 2010

PowerPivot Applications
Appear to be ordinary Excel workbooks
Have a UI that looks like a collection of tabbed Excel spreadsheets
Can store 2-3 orders of magnitude more rows of data than a spreadsheet can store (100’s millions of rows vs. 1 million rows)
2GB File Size limit

DAX Calculated Columns

PowerPivot for Excel Architecture

VertiPaq
VertiPaq Storage Engine
Lots of cheap RAM => In-memory storage
Column-oriented data compression > 10:1
Support for column-oriented DAX queries

Demo
Using PowerPivot

PowerPivot for SharePointServer, Services, and Components
c2wts/proxy
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
App
Client
WFE
Content
Excel Calculation Services
Excel Web Access
SQL
Excel Services Application Proxy
MSOLAP
TCP
Excel Web Service
MSOLAP Driver
HTTP
Excel Calc Services
Channel
Data Sources
PowerPivot Web Service
PowerPivot Service Application Proxy
PowerPivot System Service
Excel Services
PowerPivot Services

Microsoft Business Intelligence Appliance
End-to-end, pre-configured stack quickly enables BI for Excel power users
Rich insight: Empower users to easily create PowerPivot workbooks from real-time business data for faster, more accurate insights
Reduced complexity: Overcome cost and complexity of BI; shift IT resources from running ad-hoc reports to innovation initiatives
Improved deployment & manageability : Appliance management dashboard and BI Center Getting Started Guide streamline deployment and simplify administration.

Power Pivot for SharePoint Components

Access to PowerPivot for SharePoint

PowerPivot for SharePoint Features

Demonstration: Configuring PowerPivot For SharePoint
•Install SQL Analysis Services and PowerPivot for SharePoint
•Configure SharePoint for Workbook Uploads
•Configure Excel Services

PowerPivot
What cannot be done with a workbook loaded in a browser window?
1.View the current data set
2.Refresh the data
3.Save changes to SharePoint
4.Change the view by selecting different slicers

PowerPivot
What cannot be done with a workbook loaded in a browser window?
3.Save changes to SharePoint

PowerPivot
SQL Server Analysis Services in VertiPaqmode provides what features?
1.Efficient data compression
2.Management of large data sets within memory
3.Real-time restructuring of data based on user requests
4.All of the above

PowerPivot
SQL Server Analysis Services in VertiPaqmode provides what features?
4.All of the above

Agenda
•Using StreamInsight

PowerPivot Document Sharing

Working With PowerPivot Worksheets

Demonstration: Sharing PowerPivot Workbooks
•Upload a Workbook to the SharePoint PowerPivot Gallery
•Access a SharePoint Workbook
•Manually Refresh the Workbook

Review
PowerPivot workbooks are uploaded, accessed, and managed in the…?
1.SharePoint Site Pages
2.PowerPivot Gallery
3.Document Library
4.SharePoint Customized Reports page

Review
PowerPivot workbooks are uploaded, accessed, and managed in the…?
2.PowerPivotGallery

Agenda
Review
•Using StreamInsight

Service and Administrative Accounts

Demonstration: Managing and Monitoring PowerPivot for SharePoint
•Examine Server Health
•Configure Usage Data Collection
•View Workbook Activity
•View Error Logs

Review
The Analysis Services service account for all servers in a SharePoint farm with PowerPivot installed must be…
1.The same user
2.A different user
3.A local Machine User
4.A domain user

Review
The Analysis Services service account for all servers in a SharePoint farm with PowerPivot installed must be…
1.The same user
4.A domain user

Agenda
Review

Session Summary
•PowerPivot For SharePoint is Part of SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services
•PowerPivot Enables Business Intelligence Collaboration for the Average User
•Easy Access To PowerPivot Workbooks Using a Web Browser or Excel 2010

What’s Next…
•Data Warehouse Scaling and Performance
–SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Warehouse Optimizations
–New Data Warehouse Scalability Features in SQL Server 2008 R2.

Preguntas?Q&A

SQL Server Data Mining and Power Pviot (Data Discovery)Level 300
Dr. Eduardo Castro Martinez
Arquitecto
ecastro@grupoasesor.net
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://tiny.cc/comwindows
Twitter edocastro

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