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Microsoft PowerPivot for SQL Server, Excel 2010, and SharePoint 2010 Michael Herman Syntergy, Inc.

Michael Herman Principal Consultant Syntergy, Inc. SharePoint Architect and Developer 11+ years of SharePoint Experience 5+ Years at Microsoft SharePoint Product Group Leading Enterprise Class Replication Solution for Microsoft SharePoint

Full Presentation on Nov. 23,

SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence: Corporate BI vs. Self-Service BI

Corporate Business Intelligence ETL, Fact Tables, Dimensions, Cubes, Data Marts and Data Warehouses Expensive, highly-specialized BI data analysts and developers Data quickly becomes disconnected and unrecognizable from its sources

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

MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management – Integrated management environment for managing SQL server “farms” consisting of many servers Steam Insight – Ability to support complex processing and analysis of stream-based data – “click data” / “event streams”

MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Many new features including… PowerPivot Technologies – 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

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

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) Version 1 Limitation: 2GB XLSX file size

PowerPivot Applications PowerPivot tables (spreadsheets) can be joined across related columns – Can be used as data sources for Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts PowerPivot data and metadata stored (embedded) in.XLSX files using new storage extensibility feature called Custom Data Parts (CDP) introduced in Excel 2010

PowerPivot for Excel Architecture

PowerPivot for Excel

PowerPivot for Excel Installation.NET 3.5 SP1 Install with Office Shared Services (VSTO) – Else uninstall and re-install Office 2010 Vista/Windows Server 2008: Platform Update (KB971644) and SP2 or greater Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2: no special requirements Possibly ADO/OLE DB drivers for non-MS data sources

Excel 2010 after PowerPivot Install

Excel 2010 with PowerPivot

Excel 2010 PowerPivot Ribbon

Excel 2010 PowerPivot Window

PowerPivot Data Sources Traditional relational data sources SQL Server Analysis Services MS Excel, MS Access, TXT/CSV files Data feeds: SharePoint Lists SQL Server Reporting Services reports Other PowerPivot workbooks

PowerPivot Data Import Wizard

Analysis Services: VertiPaq mode Analysis Services Engine Design Changes – Calculation Engine and Storage Engine Traditional (MOLAP) Storage Engine tuned for disk based storage – From when disk was cheap and RAM was $$$ VertiPaq Storage Engine – Lots of cheap RAM => In-memory storage – Column-oriented data compression > 10:1 – Support for column-oriented DAX queries

DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) Similar to Excel expressions but operate on entire columns to create new calculated columns (not cell based) PowerPoint V1 is first ship vehicle for DAX and has some limitations – More capability in future releases of PowerPivot Supersets/supersedes MDX (Multidimensional Expressions) – Both supported for backward compatibility

DAX Calculated Columns

PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010

SP2010 PowerPivot Services

PowerPivot and Excel Services

SP2010 PowerPivot Architecture

DEMO PowerPivot for Excel PowerPivot for SharePoint

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