This document discusses PowerPivot for SharePoint. It covers configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint, working with PowerPivot workbooks, and managing PowerPivot for SharePoint. PowerPivot allows users to easily create self-service BI applications using Excel. It stores large datasets in memory for fast analysis. PowerPivot workbooks can be uploaded, accessed, and managed through the PowerPivot Gallery in SharePoint.

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

3. Agenda Review •Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint •Working With PowerPivotWorkbooks •Managing PowerPivot for SharePoint

4. 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?

5. Evolution of BI Self-Service BI Traditional BI Niche Startups

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Analysis Services in VertiPaq Mode 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. DAX Calculated Columns

14. PowerPivot for Excel Architecture

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

16. Demo Using PowerPivot

28. 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 Analysis Services in VertiPaq Mode PowerPivot Services

29. 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.

30. Power Pivot for SharePoint Components

31. Access to PowerPivot for SharePoint

32. PowerPivot for SharePoint Features

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

34. 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

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

36. 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

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

38. Agenda •Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint •Working With PowerPivotWorkbooks •Managing PowerPivot for SharePoint •Using StreamInsight

39. PowerPivot Document Sharing

40. Working With PowerPivot Worksheets

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

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

43. 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

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

45. Agenda Review •Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint •Working With PowerPivotWorkbooks •Managing PowerPivot for SharePoint •Using StreamInsight

46. Service and Administrative Accounts

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

48. 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

49. 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

50. Agenda Review •Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint •Working With PowerPivotWorkbooks •Managing PowerPivot for SharePoint

51. 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

52. 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.

53. Preguntas?Q&A

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