1. PowerPivot – The Coming Wave prepared for April 6, 2010 Prepared by Jeff Johnston Greg Galloway

2. Agenda What is PowerPivot and why should I care? The value of PowerPivot for the Business User Self-service reporting with Excel Publishing PowerPivot reports to SharePoint What SharePoint Administrators need to know about PowerPivot Governance Architecture Configuration

3. The Need for PowerPivot Perform analysis and create reports Analyze more than > 1 million transactions Bring in data from several different sources IT could do it, but not fast enough for my needs Use a tool that is familiar and intuitive Share my reports with others IT’s concerns about governance & scalability

4. Ok, so what is PowerPivot? PowerPivot for Excel 2010 Free Add-in for Excel Millions of rows of data Discovers relationships Flexible layout & formatting PivotTables & Slicers Tables & Charts PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 Publish to SharePoint Share & collaborate with others Centrally monitor and manage Manage security Discover mission-critical BI solutions Excel Services support

5. PowerPivot Unites Business Users and IT Provides alignment between I.T. and Business Users Empowered to create without IT dependence Managing compliance and resources without user interference I.T. ProvisionProvision AdministerAdminister SecureSecure TrackTrack Users ModelModel AnalyzeAnalyze PersonalizePersonalize Share dataShare data

6. Where Does it Fit? The BI Continuum PersonalTeamCorporate

7. PersonalTeamCorporate Self-Service / Flexible Enterprise/Formal Where Does it Fit? The BI Continuum

8. Data Mining OLAPOLAP SpreadsheetSpreadsheet Software- derived Insight ReportingReporting Ad-hoc Reporting MonitoringMonitoring AnalyticsAnalytics PowerPivotPowerPivot HypothesisStrongWeak Where Does it Fit – Analytical Tools

9. demo: Self-Service Reporting with PowerPivot

10. Demo Recap PowerPivot enhances the analytical capabilities of Excel Illustrated 3 different data sources SQL Server tables Reporting Services via Atom Feed Clipboard Multi-Dimensional (OLAP Cubes) Files Excel Ability to handle 3.9 million rows Ability to detect relationships between tables DAX Expressions Familiar PivotTable / PivotChart ad-hoc reporting

11. demo: Publishing and the PowerPivot Management Dashboard

12. PowerPivot Architecture Overview Excel Producer Data Sources PowerPivot Add-In

13. PowerPivot Architecture Overview SharePoint Farm WFE Content DBs Excel Producer Data Sources PowerPivot Add-In

14. PowerPivot Architecture Overview Browser Consumer SharePoint Farm WFE App Servers Content DBs Excel Services PowerPivot

15. Responsibilities for SharePoint Admin Setup – Capacity planning – Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint – Tune SharePoint for large files Ongoing Support – Secure document libraries – Make sure data refresh is succeeding – Monitor usage and performance

16. PowerPivot Capacity Planning Metrics to capture: – Total SharePoint users – Concurrent SharePoint Users – Concurrent PowerPivot Users – Number of files per user – Average and max size of files – Total size of all unique PowerPivot workbooks being used concurrently PowerPivot is in-memory technology Specific guidelines will be coming soon

17. http://powerpivotgeek.com/server-installation

18. SharePoint 2010 Topologies - Departmental WFE Power Pivot Excel Svcs SQL Good for small setups Not a good farm scenario Single Server Multiple Standalone Server Evenly distributes load across many servers with NLB in front of servers SQL on separate server, with or without clustering Easy to rebuild but doesn’t take into account heavier loads SharePoint Farm

19. SharePoint 2010 Topologies - Enterprise SharePoint Farm WFE SQL Power Pivot WFE webappdB Licensing SharePoint app server with PowerPivot requires these licenses: SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Excel Svcs Power Pivot Excel Svcs Power Pivot Excel Svcs SQL

20. SharePoint Upload Config for Large Files Important because IT (SharePoint) Administrators are now dealing with larger files – Default SharePoint Scenarios Max Size: 50MB Average Size: 20MB – PowerPivot SharePoint Scenarios Max Size: 2000MB (change both Excel Services and SharePoint settings) Average Size: ~50MB Beware of versioning – Consider Remote Blob Store or third party solutions like StoragePointRemote Blob StoreStoragePoint

21. SharePoint Upload Choices Ways to upload: – Save As from Excel with SharePoint Excel 2010 uses Office Upload Center to upload asynchronously under the coversOffice Upload Center – Publish to SharePoint (the wizard) – WebDAV where SharePoint looks like a file share Make sure Windows Desktop Experience role is installed and the WebClient service is running – Upload from SharePoint web page

22. SharePoint Upload Effect of Bandwidth New: Office Upload Center which can asynchronously upload files from Excel to SharePoint

23. Troubleshooting: Reading ULS Logs %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\

24. SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel 2010 is a data analysis add-in that delivers unmatched computational power directly within Microsoft Excel SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel 2010 is available for download free of charge at www.powerpivot.com.www.powerpivot.com SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint integrates with Excel Services on the SharePoint server to enable seamless and secure sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions directly in the browser SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint is included in SQL Server 2008 R2 Key Takeaways

25. Resources http://www.powerpivot.com/ http://powerpivottwins.com/ http://powerpivotgeek.com/ http://powerpivotpro.com/ http://geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/

26. About Artis Consulting Microsoft Awards Customer Experience Award – February 2010 Compete Award - July 2007 and February 2009 Partnering to Succeed Award - July 2008 GM Award - July 2007 Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Microsoft go-to partner for Business Intelligence and SharePoint Competencies in Information Worker solutions and Business Intelligence, with specializations in Portals & Collaborations and Performance Management Founder of MS Business Intelligence Community (www.msbic.com) right information right person right time