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Agenda What is PowerPivot? How does it work? Pros & Cons Competitors PowerPivot vs. Excel Demo

What is PowerPivot? “Self-Service Business Intelligence” An add-in used to perform powerful data analysis in Microsoft Excel 2010 Top Features Import millions of rows of data from multiple data sources Enjoy fast calculations and analysis Virtually unlimited support of data sources "PowerPivot will bring a lot more freedom to our information workers because they will have powerful, easy-to-use data analysis tools right on their PCs…without having to come to the IT department for help..." Ayad Shammout, Lead Technical Database Administrator, CareGroup Healthcare System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URy_uQYS49s http://www.powerpivotpro.com/what-is-power-pivot/ PowerPivot first appeared around May 2010 as part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 product line. It included "PowerPivot for Excel" and "PowerPivot for SharePoint"[2] While the product was associated with SQL Server, the add-in for Excel could be used independent of any server, and with various types of data sources. SQL Server 2012 contained the add-in PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010, this was also made available as a free download for Microsoft Excel 2010.[3] Sometime after that, the PowerPivot followed its own release cadence, separate from SQL Server. In Excel 2013, Power Pivot is only available for certain versions of Office.[5] In Excel 2016, it is included natively in the application in the data tab on the ribbon. A Power Pivot feature named Power Query, in Excel 2010 and 2013, was renamed to Get & Transform in Excel 2016. Prior to the release of Power Pivot, Microsoft relied heavily on SQL Server Analysis Services as the engine for its Business Intelligence suite. PowerPivot complements the SQL Server core BI components under the vision of one Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM), which aims to integrate on-disk multidimensional analytics previously known as Unified Dimensional Model (UDM), with a more flexible, in-memory "tabular" model. As a self-service BI product, Power Pivot is intended to allow users with no specialized BI or analytics training to develop data models and calculations, sharing them either directly or through SharePoint document libraries.

“The Brains and Heart of Microsoft’s Power BI Suite” It brings “self-service business intelligence to your desktop”

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Pros & Cons Cons Pros Learning Curve (No “point and click”) Convenient Runs in memory Manual dashboard Office Pro Only available on Windows Pros Convenient Large data sets Multiple data sources Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) No cost Easy to share

Competitors Excel itself Tableau QlikView TIBCO Spotfire More data source connections QlikView Higher implementation speed TIBCO Spotfire Unlimited scalability Many of the data visualization tools have similar functions and capabilities. For MS powerPivot, we have identified 4 competitors. “By far, the biggest “competitor” to Power Pivot is… Excel itself. In other words, lack of awareness that Power Pivot even EXISTS is still the biggest “competitor” to Power Pivot today.” PowerPivot for Excel provides significantly different functionality from what is available in an Excel worksheet Scalability is the capability to make a software application available to those who need it and want it

PowerPivot vs. Excel PowerPivot Excel Advanced formulas Excel formulas Create enhanced & interactive data models Create basic data models Create KPIs Does not support KPIs Create Perspectives Does not support Perspectives Essentially, PowerPivot can generate more sophisticated data models Advanced formulas with the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) expression language Make enhancements such as identifying default fields, images, and unique values Create KPIs to use in PivotTables and Power View reports Create Perspectives which can help users to easily navigate large data sets

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