This document summarizes a presentation about improving business intelligence (BI) systems with geospatial visualization techniques using SharePoint. The presentation discusses visualizing geographic data through SharePoint fields, Reporting Services, Excel apps, Power View, Power BI sites, and Power Map. It provides examples of visualizing data on maps and with geographic heat maps. The document concludes with a demo of using Power Map to identify the best location for a new restaurant.

1. Geolocation: Improving Our
BI Systems With SharePoint
Rubén Pertusa López (rpertusa@solidq.com)
Data Platform Architect, SolidQ
MAP, MCT, MCSA, PASS Spain
Sergio Carrillo Vila (scarrillovila@gmail.com)
Senior BI Developer, S&G Consulting
MAP, MCSA
@rpertusa
@scarrillovila

2. Ruben & Sergio
• Conference Speakers
• Based in Spain
• Book Authors
• Phd Candidate on Data Mining.
• Project Managers
• Microsoft Certifed Professional

3. Goals
• This session will help us understand many geo
visualization techniques.
• Share experience and challenges from SolidQ
projects during this year in the geo visualization
field.
• Demos, Demos, Demos! Let’s enjoy! 

4. Agenda
• Overview of GeoSpatial Analysis
• Visualization
– Sharepoint
– Reporting Services
– Excel Apps
– Power View
– Power BI Sites
– Power Map
**Special DEMO**
• Conclusion & Questions

5. OVERVIEW OF GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

6. GeoSpatial Analysis

7. GeoSpatial Analysis… How?
• Sharepoint geo native field type
• Reporting Services
• Excel Apps
• Power View
• Power BI Sites
• Power Map

8. Types of Visualization (I)
Sharepoint
• Geolocation field type

9. Types of Visualization (II)
Corporate BI
• Reporting Services

10. Types of Visualization (II)
Personal BI
• Excel Apps
• Power View
• Power Map

11. Types of Visualization (III)
Team BI
• Power BI in Office 365
– Power View
– Q&A

12. Last year’s experience @ SolidQ
• POC Worldwide Energy Company
– SSRS Maps + HDInsight + Multidimensional Cubes
• Datanomics Project
– HTML5/Jquery Maps + BigData + Sentiment Analysis +
Multidimensional Cubes
• New deployments in clients
– Power View Maps + Tabular cubes
In conclusion: Maps, Maps, Maps…

13. GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATION

14. Native in Sharepoint (I)
PROs
• New feature in SharePoint 2013
– On Premise and Office365!
• Libraries and Lists
– New type of view
• Latitude and Longitude
– Geolocation Accuracy 100%

15. Native in Sharepoint (II)
CONs
• Excel import/export is not supported
• Need Bing API Key
– 90 free days
• Not available from UI 
• Latitude and Longitude?

16. DEMO
Geolocate your Sharepoint lists

17. Reporting Services (I)
• Possibility of grouping layers in a map
– Line
– Point
– Polygon
• Some other features
– Subscriptions
– Export the map
• XML, CSV, PDF, Excel..
– Integrated with Sharepoint

18. Reporting Services (II)
• Optional connection to Bing
– May use an ESRI Shapefile map
– Create a map using T-SQL geospatial queries
• Importing our maps
– Shape2Sql tool
http://www.sharpgis.net/page/sql-server-2008-spatial-
tools.aspx

19. Navigation in SSRS Maps
• Drill-Down through actions
– Data Regions
• Data Sources
– GeoSpatial data: Relational Engine
– Aggregated Facts: Analysis Services Engine

20. DEMO
Geometric Shapes in SQL and Maps + Big Data

21. Excel 2013 Apps
• Not so popular but powerful
• Based in Javascript/HTML5
• Linked to a data range
• Some current free examples:
– Bing Maps
– Geographic Heat Map
• Totally compatible with Mobile devices and
Sharepoint

22. DEMO
Using Excel Apps to visualize data in maps

23. Get the most of Power View
Through SSRS in Sharepoint Mode
• Power View for Sharepoint
– Multidimensional cubes are supported (depends on SQL Version)
– BISM file
Through Excel
• Power View for Excel 2013
– Integrated Add-in, Limited
– Multidimensional cubes aren’t supported
• Power View Sheets in Excel for Office 365
– HTML5 compatibility, Limited
• Power View Sheets in Excel for Sharepoint
– Not HTML5, Limited

24. Versions of SQL Server
Current status of SSRS Engine for Power View
• SQL Server 2012 SP1
– New features: Maps, Pie charts, KPIs, themes, hierarchies.
• SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU4
– Compatibility with Multidimensional models (only
Sharepoint)
• SQL Server 2014 RTM
– Compatibility with Multidimensional models (only for
Sharepoint)

25. Maps in Power View
• Visualize series of data
– Bubbles
– Pie charts
• Polygon visualization isn’t supported
• Must have connection to Bing Maps
– Proxy issues

26. Geocoding in Power View
• Latitude/Longitude
– More exactly
– Store in the model as decimal data type
• With geocoding: Bing Maps
– Less exactly
– Data Category
• Country, City, Region, Postal Code, Lat, Long,etc.
– Hierarchies / Full location
“Madrid”

27. DEMO
Improving our Power View reports

28. Power BI Sites
• Collaborative visualization
• Power BI for Office 365
– Power BI Site
– Favorite reports
– Q&A (Natural language query)
• Share queries
• Save queries

29. DEMO
Colaborative visualization using Power BI for Office
365

30. Power Map
• Excel Add-in for 3D Visualization
– 32bit/64bit
– Only PowerPivot Data model or Excel data
• Visualization
– Heat map chart
– Region chart
– Bubble chart
– Column chart

31. Power Map (II)
Geocoding in Power Map
• Similar to Power View
• Needs connection to Bing Maps
• Shows % of conficence
Other features
• Create and export data tours
– Tell your story!

32. AND THE SPECIAL DEMO…

33. Ramsey! Here I am!
New chefs

34. 4 Key elements in a sucessful
3*** Michelin Restaurant
• Strong personality
• Delicious raw material
• Motivated working team
• Best location

35. DEMO
Picking up the best location for our restaurant

36. Conclusion
• Choose the best technology that fits our geospatial
requirements
• Download:
• Power Map Preview:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=38395

37. QUESTIONS?

38. Contact us!
• Rubén Pertusa López (rpertusa@solidq.com)
Twitter: @rpertusa
• Sergio Carrillo (scarrillovila@gmail.com )
Twitter: @scarrillovila
THANK YOU!