Microsoft Self Service BI Daire Cunningham – Spanish Point Technologies

Spanish Point Technologies and Microsoft Compliance Enforcement 2 Financial and Professional Services B2B Connectivity Government / State Agencies & Not For Profit Mainframe IntegrationManufacturing & Logistics Compliance Enforcement Retail and DistributionB2B Connectivity

PROGRAM 6:15 – 7:15Part 1 – Introduction to Microsoft BI & PowerPivot 7:15 – 7:30Break and Refreshments 7:30 – 8:30Part 2 – Data Exploration and Visualisation with Power View – Requirements – Features by Versions 8:30 – 8:45Q&A and Summary Prize Draw!

COMPLETE BI SOLUTION Built-in BI solution for data warehouse needs—out-of-the-box MOST BROADLY ADOPTED PRODUCTIVITY and COLLABORATION TOOLS DATA FEED S LINE OF BUSINESS (LOB) APPS ORACL E

? EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) Self-service BI Traditional BI IT Professional End Users Existing Data LOB applicationsFilesData marts ETL/Data Quality AnalysisReports Dashboards and scorecards Provision Analysis cubes Data warehouse Data Staging Spreadsheets Specialized tools IT has been busy keeping up with the growing demand for BI…Harvesting existing data, cleaning it and staging it…To provision reports, dashboards, and scorecards to meet end user demandBut 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 and agility?

SELF SERVICE BI DEMONSTRATION Creating and Deploying and Model

PRIZE DRAW Win a Free Place on Our Next BI BootCamp A one-day training event in Spanish Point’s Dublin offices covering traditional and self- service BI with hands-on labs. Leave your business card or write your details on a slip to enter the draw at the end of this session!

Stunning, interactive data visualizations, Power View Familiar tools built on Excel and SharePoint Mashup data, PowerPivot “Only 28% of potential users are using the standard BI platform of choice in organizations¹” ¹ Gartner, “The Consumerization of BI Drives Greater Adoption,” James Richardson, June 3, 2011 RAPID DATA EXPLORATION AND VISUALIZATION

RAPID DATA EXPLORATION AND VISUALIZATION Empower end users with new insights Familiar Excel Experience Powerful Data Mash-ups In-memory Performance Highly Visual Design Experience Rich Metadata-driven Interactivity Presentation-ready at All Times Easily Access Reports and Dashboards Create Alerts from Published Reports Collaborate on BI Insights

MANAGED SELF-SERVICE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Increase IT efficiency by delivering and managing a highly available, secure, and interoperable BI platform

SELF SERVICE BI DEMONSTRATION Using the Model – Self-service Reporting

What’s New in SQL 2012 PowerView is part for SSRS for SharePoint PowerPivot “V2” includes extra features such as Hierarchies Diagram View Multiple Relationships Sort by Other Column What You Will Need - Software For local PowerPivot only… Excel 2010 PowerPivot for Excel – freely available at For sharing model and Excel reports… SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition Or SharePoint 2013 And SQL Server 2008 (R2) Enterprise Edition Or SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or BI Edition

Farm can be scaled out if multiple SharePoint servers. E.g. 1 web server and 1 or more application servers for running PowerPivot, Excel and other services If using SSAS tabular an application database server will be required running SQL Recommended to be separate from SharePoint DB server What You Will Need - Hardware SharePoint farm can be 1 to many servers but at least 2 is recommended: 1-2 SharePoint and one SQL for SharePoint DBs.

What’s New in Excel/SharePoint 2013 PowerPivot Data Modeling now built-in to Excel. No need for Add-in although this will still be available for advanced users Power View now in Excel 2013 and includes KPIs, Decomposition Tree and other drill-down facilities and mapping SQL 2012 add-ins for SharePoint 2013 do not have to be installed within SharePoint farm (with SP1)

What’s Next? me at to arrange a planning session to help identify a Pilot / Proof of Pilot / Proof of Concept Project Follow us on for details of upcoming events and webinars

Upcoming Spanish Point Events and Webinars If you are interested in attending any of these events please contact or go to SharePoint Bootcamp - Forms and Workflows - 17/01/13 BI Bootcamp - 10/01/13 Training SQL Server Enterprise Information Management - 20/11/12 Service Bus and Workflow Manager with Microsoft’s Azure Cloud - 6/12/12 SQL Server and Big Data - 12/12/12 Webinars

PRIZE DRAW And the Winners are…