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© 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. The Undiscovered Country - I have Excel, I need Performance Point, I don’t know Analysis Services SPTechCon Boston July 2012 Chris McNulty
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Pg. 2 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Americas EMEA APJa Sales/Mrkg R&D Support 178 Countries All Verticals Global 200 SMB Database, Monitoring, Data Protection, User Workspace/Virtualization, Windows (SharePoint, AD, Messaging), Identity Mgmt 60 Offices, 3 HQs 3600+ Employees 100,000+ Customers Quest Market Presence Multiple Business Lines
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Pg. 4 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Chris McNulty SharePoint BU at Quest Software 10+ years with SharePoint 20 years consulting (led KMA SharePoint practice) and financial services technology (Santander, John Hancock/Manulife, GMO, State Street) MBA in Inv Mgmt from Boston College Write and speak often on Microsoft IW technologies (blogs & books) MCSE MCTS MSA MVTSP MCC Hiking, cooking, playing guitar, colonial history, photography My family: Hayley, three kids (17, 8, 5) and my dog Stan
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Hometown, Laurel, NY (from www.flickr.com/photos/cmcnulty)
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 … the bright frontier Eastern Long Island, July 2006
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Pg. 8 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Presentation Governance Out Of Scope − SharePoint 2013 − Quest / Dell − Deep Dives (e.g. PowerShell, BI, Upgrade, SQL DBA) Rules − Questions – time permitting during session − Any time after session – email etc. - @cmcnulty2000 − Slides posted to www.sharepointforall.com & SPTechCon sitewww.sharepointforall.com − Any time after session – email etc. - @cmcnulty2000 Prerequisites − Comfortable with SQL − Can write T-SQL − SharePoint Customization Expertise
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Pg. 9 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Scenario I heard that we have a BI interface in SharePoint. Can I send you an Excel file so we can load it into Performance Point? Thanks to Geoff Varosky @gvaro
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Pg. 10 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Overview Excel 1. Excel Prep SQL Server 2. Import to SQL 3. Create View SSAS 4. SSAS Project 5. SSAS Source 6. SSAS DSV 7. Named Queries 8, Cube 9. Add Dimensions 10. Build/Deploy/View Performance Point 11. Data Conn & Chart 12.Dashboard
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Pg. 11 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 1. Excel Preparation Inspect the file Remove extra headers Clean columns – Good, unique names Add an ID field (integer) Add Year − YEAR() Add Quarter − "Q"&ROUNDUP(MONTH(B2)/3,0) Add Month − TEXT(MONTH(B2),"00")
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Pg. 12 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 2. Import Excel File to SQL Create or Re-Use a Non-SharePoint Database SQL Export/Import Wizard Or SSIS Use $ and Rename Edit Mappings & Preview − Dates & Money Auto-Generate SQL Create Statements Run and Save SSIS for Reuse
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Pg. 13 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 3. Create a SQL View Not strictly needed! Allows you to change the table structure if the Excel file changes but just remap the view
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Pg. 14 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 4. Create SSAS Project Formerly BIDS Now SQL Server Data Tools (2012) AS Multidimensional Template
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Pg. 15 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 5. Create SSAS Data Source Use wizard Use service account connection
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Pg. 16 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 6. Create SSAS Data Source View Use wizard Use service account connection
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Pg. 17 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 7. Create Named Queries in DSV These are “virtual dimensions” Define logical primary key as the unique ID Source foreign to destination master (all roads lead to Rome) Product, Region, State
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Pg. 18 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 8. Create Cube Master table is the measure group table Rename Measures to friendlier names
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Pg. 19 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 9. Multiple Dimensions Product – flat dimension Geography – a hierarchy − Regions contains states Time − Build multiple attributes Order into a hierarchy – Y/Q/M/D
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Pg. 20 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 10. Build/Deploy/Inspect Build cube Deploy to SSAS from VS Inspect inside VS
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Pg. 21 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 11. Performance Point Chart Add SSAS Connection to Cube Create Analytic Chart − Measure – Series − Dimension – Bottom Axis Create Dashboard − Add Chart Save and Deploy
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Pg. 22 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Step 12. Performance Point Dashboard Create Dashboard − Add Chart Save and Deploy
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Pg. 23 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Overview Excel 1. Excel Prep SQL Server 2. Import to SQL 3. Create View SSAS 4. SSAS Project 5. SSAS Source 6. SSAS DSV 7. Named Queries 8, Cube 9. Add Dimensions 10. Build/Deploy/View Performance Point 11. Data Conn & Chart 12.Dashboard
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Pg. 25 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Thank you − Contact − Email chris.mcnulty@quest.com − Blog http://www.chrismcnulty.net/bloghttp://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog − Also http://www.sharepointforall.comhttp://www.sharepointforall.com − Twitter: @cmcnulty2000 − LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcnultyhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcnulty − Upcoming: − July 2012 – SPSNYC − August 2012 – NH SPUG − Sept 2012 – NYSPUG, VASPUG, Chicago, SPSNH
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Pg. 26 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. More at SPTechCon − SSAS and Performance Point Mon 1:45pm − Lightning Talks – Mon 4:45 (Governance) − Book Signing – Tues 6:00pm SP2010 Consultant’s Handbook (NEW!) – Quest Booth − SQL Server 2012 Integration Wed 8:30am
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Pg. 27 © 2012 Quest Software Inc. All rights reserved. Graham Houghton, Data Architect “We chose Quest because of their fast installation, ease of use and ability to provide instant results without additional configuration. Quest came out on top of everything else we evaluated because we became productive very quickly and received useful information within three hours.”
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