1. Power View: Analysis and Visualization for Your Application’s Data
Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2012
Power View: Analysis and Visualization for Your Application’s Data
Andrew J. Brust
Founder and CEO
Level: Intermediate
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CEO and Founder, Blue Badge Insights
Microsoft Regional Director, MVP
Co-chair VSLive! and over 16 years as a speaker
Founder, Microsoft BI User Group of NYC
Co-moderator, NYC .NET Developers Group
“Redmond Review” columnist for Visual Studio Magazine and Redmond Developer News
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3. Read All About It!

4. Agenda Intro Basic Use Data Acquisition Filtering
Advanced Visualizations
Advanced Features

5. What is Power View? Ad hoc reporting. Really!
Analysis, data exploration
Data Visualization
In Silverlight, in the browser, in SharePoint
Feels a little like Excel BI
Is actually based on SSRS
Power View makes a special RDL file

6. How Do You Get It?
It will ship with SQL Server 2012, BI and Enterprise Editions
It will require SharePoint 2010 and the SharePoint Enterprise Client Access License (eCAL)
It will work against data in BI Semantic Models (BISMs):
PowerPivot (on SharePoint)
“Tabular” mode of SQL Server Analysis Services in SQL Server 2012

7. Power View! In the browser, in Silverlight Ribbon, like Excel
Variety of
visualizations
and data formats
Field list, like Excel
Data regions pane, like Excel

8. View Modes Maximize one chart, or put whole report in preview or
full-screen

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Power View Basics
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10. BISM: A Column-Oriented Store
Imagine, instead of:
You have:
Perf: values you wish to aggregate are adjacent
Efficiency: great compression from identical or nearly-identical values in proximity
Fast aggregation and high compression means huge volumes of data can be stored and processed, in RAM
Employee ID
Age
Income 1 43
90000 2 38
100000 3 35
Employee ID 1 2 3
Age 43 38 35
Income
90000
100000

11. Data Import Relational databases
SQL Server (including SQL Azure!), Access
Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix
Teradata
“Others” (OLE DB, including OLE DB provider for ODBC)
OData feeds, incl. R2/Denali Reporting Services, SharePoint 2010 lists, Azure DataMarket, ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)
Excel via clipboard, linked tables
Filter, preview, friendly names for tables/columns

12. DirectQuery Mode
In DQ mode, model defines schema, but is not used for data
Queries issued directly against source
Similar to ROLAP storage for conventional SSAS cubes

13. Creating a SharePoint Power View Data Source
To repeat: Power View works only against PowerPivot/SSAS tabular models
DirectQuery mode supported, however
For PowerPivot, click “Create Power View Report” button or option on workbook in SharePoint report gallery
For SSAS tabular model, create BISM data source, then click its “Create Power View Report” button or option
BISM data sources can point to PowerPivot workbooks too, if you want.

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Power View Data Acquisition
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15. Constraining Your Data In Power View
Tiles
A filtering mechanism within a visualization
Highlighting
Selection in one visualization affects the others
Slicers
Similar to Excel against PowerPivot
True Filters
Checked drop-down list; very Excel-like
Right-hand filter pane, similar to SSRS and Excel Services

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Power View Filtering
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17. Multipliers
Multiple charts within a chart, in columns, rows, or a matrix
Horizontal and vertical multipliers
Allows for visualizing 1 or 2 additional dimensions

18. Scatter/Bubble Charts
Allow for several measures
Features a “play” axis which can be manipulated through a slider or animated
Excellent way to visualize trends over time

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Power View Advanced Visualizations
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20. BISM Advanced Modeling
Perspectives
Default Aggregations
Special Advanced Mode
Reporting properties
Hierarchies
Hide specific
columns and tables
Measures
KPIs

21. Reporting Properties
Setting the representative column and image tells Power View how to summarize your data, and show stored images
Other properties tell it about: key attributes, default aggregations and more
These properties were, essentially, created for Power View
Though other clients are free to use them too

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Advanced Modeling and Properties
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23. Why Is Power View in SharePoint?
Integration with PowerPivot and Excel Services
Create Power View reports in the same place the data sits, and side-by-side with other analyses
Document security subsystem
Building a new one just for Power View would have delayed the product
SharePoint is the MS BI Presentation Layer
Excel Services
PerformancePoint Services
Reporting Services (SharePoint integration is optional)

24. Non-SharePoint-Dependent Alternatives
Dundas Dashboard
Tableau
.NET data viz components from Telerik, DevExpress, ComponentOne, Infragistics
and…
Reporting Services…

25. Data Visualization in SSRS
Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2012
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
2/7/2018
Data Visualization in SSRS
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26. Futures Shown at PASS: HTML 5 Rumored: Windows 8 Metro
One day?: Non-BISM data
Originally planned: Export to PowerPoint
My hope: permission to deploy in non-SharePoint scenarios:
Silverlight or Metro apps
Standalone, hosted on Azure or Office 365
A free Excel add-in, for desktop use

27. Summing Up
Power View is Microsoft’s first true ad hoc reporting technology
It’s also the first data BI stack component to make heavy use of XAML
An underlying motivation for the team was to make data exploration fun, and it shows
Power View is part of Microsoft’s BI Renaissance

28. Thank you andrew.brust@bluebadgeinsights.com @andrewbrust on Twitter
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