36. “It has to stay in Excel. We just won’t use another tool.”
“We don’t know what is OLAP and dimensional modeling and we don’t care to
know. Even relational modeling is a bit too hard.”
“Don’t ask us to design or model anything in advance. We should just be able to load our data in
and work. Exactly as do in Excel.”
“This ‘PowerPivot’ has to be simple, fast, intuitive and straight forward, else I will
simply continue to use Excel as before”
37. “old Excel” PowerPivot
Pivot
Pivot
Calculations
Calculations
Data Data
38. Pivot
Calculations
Data
Corporate
data Local data Cloud data
39. Dashboard
Excel
Calc
Data
Reporting Power View
49. +31205002032 / 0205002032 / (020)5002032
Format Consistent formatting
+31(0)205002032
Consistent definition and Gendercode = M, F, U in one system
Standard
understanding Gendercode = 0,1, 2 in another system
Consistent Consistent meaning $/€
Blank last name,
Complete Missing data
01-01-9999 as birth date
Supplier A is listed as ‘active’, but went out of business
Accurate Representation of reality
six years ago
Valid Data value incorrect Salary should be between 40.000 and 120.000
Duplicate Data appears more than once John Smith / Jack Smith
50.
51. Manage – Master Data
Species Loxodonta Africana
Habitat Southern and West Africa
Society In herds
Feeding Up to 450 kilograms per day.
Size and weight Approx. 6 meter in length, 3 meter tall. Approx. 3500 kg.
Age Maturity at 12 years, can become 60-70 years old
Reproduction 1 at the time (20 months carriage period)
60. Successfully Design
a new system using
Level 1: General Guidance
HW/SW Guidelines Reference Workloads best practices
Successfully Buy
Level 2: Vendor-Specific Configurations
a new configuration
HW/SW SKUs +App Benchmarks with known abilities
Level 3: Appliance Products Successfully Deploy
a new solution with
HW/SW Bundles +Benchmark “Warranty” proven performance
61. Control Rack Data Rack
Compute Nodes Storage Nodes
Control Nodes SQL
Active / Passive
SQL
SQL SQL
SQL
Dual Fiber Channel
Management Nodes
Dual Infiniband
SQL
SQL
SQL
Landing Node
SQL
SQL
Backup Node
SQL
Spare Compute Node
Private Network
Control rack Data racks
