1. Unlock the Power of PivotTables

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8. Users

9. What's up doc Most users don’t understand PivotTables
Even experienced Excel-users don’t
If you can’t explain the tool to the end-user, your project won’t be successful
So: unlock the Power of the PivotTable

10. Use Cases End user connects to cubes/powerpivot models
Testing of correctness of data
Analysis
Regression testing
Daily quick control of the sanity of a Datawarehouse

11. Standard layout

12. Subtotals

14. Subtotals

15. Standard (compact) layout

16. Outline

17. Tabular

18. Compare
Compact
Outline
Tabular

19. Filters (Label And Value)

20. Where to filter

21. Where to filter Beware Filtering is applied in the column you choose
Filtering is a heavy operation Choose your knockout criteria quickly

22. How to filter

23. How to filter

24. Collapse and expand

25. Design choices for Pivot tables
Have in a fact table the lowest grain available for tracing a specific data issue
Combine Codes and description in one field.
Introduce a metadata dimension to make sure that you are looking at the correct Server and database
Preferably have an undisputable update date
Use Perspectives to “Guide” users learning curve

26. Filtering and percentages

27. Filtering and percentages

28. Subtotals on filtered set
Total Set
Filtered on
Group
Show
Totals
Filtered in
Line Item

29. Values on columns

30. Move values between groups

31. Move values between groups

32. Values on rows

33. Create PivotTable (re-use of data)

34. PivotTable options

35. PivotTable options

36. PivotTable options

37. Named sets No forecast in 2012 Forecast only Q1
Solvable with named sets

38. Named Set

39. Named sets

40. And there is MDX again

41. Named Sets are valid in a pivot table

42. Differences between PivotTables
All features for normal PivotTables
Grouping not available for PowerPivot
Creation of Measures Not available for Tabular model
And More, Be careful

43. Links