2. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the opinions and views of Project Botticelli and/or Rafal Lukawiecki. The material presented is not certain and may vary based on several factors. Microsoft makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. Portions © 2011 Project Botticelli Ltd & entire material © 2011 Microsoft Corp unless noted otherwise. Some slides contain quotations from copyrighted materials by other authors, as individually attributed or as already covered by Microsoft Copyright ownerships. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Project Botticelli Ltd as of the date of this presentation. Because Project Botticelli & Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft and Project Botticelli cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. Project Botticelli makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. E&OE. This seminar is based on a number of sources including a few dozen of Microsoft-owned presentations, used with permission. Thank you: Michael Tejedor, Chris Volckerick, Tara Seppa, Morris Novello, Bryan Bredehoeft, Chris Dial, Donald Farmer, Sabrena McBride, Peter Sprague, and Diwakar Rajagopal.

6. Excel 2010 and Excel Services Interactive slicers enable users to look at the data from various directions in Excel 2010 and in the browser through PowerPivot for SharePoint and Excel Services.

8. 8

10. Challenge Ad-hoc gathering of information Low confidence in quality Solution OLAP cubes Self-service, cube-based Excel reports Results More effective analysis and processing of customer information Increased sales

11. 11

13. 13

15. 15

19. User driven application administration and monitoring Manage and facilitate access to secure organizational data

25. Sample DAX expressionMeans: = [First Name] &“ ”& [Last Name] String concatenation just like Excel =SUM(Sales[Amount]) SUM function takes a column name instead of a range of cells =RELATED (Product[Cost]) new RELATED function follows relationship between tables

27. Date and TimeInformationMath and TrigStatisticalText DATEISBLANKABSAVERAGECONCATENATE DATEVALUEISERRORCEILING, ISO.CEILINGAVERAGEAEXACT DAYISLOGICALEXPCOUNTFIND EDATEISNONTEXTFACTCOUNTAFIXED EOMONTHISNUMBERFLOORCOUNTBLANKLEFT HOURISTEXTINTMAXLEN MINUTELNMAXALOWER MONTHLogicalLOGMINMID NOWANDLOG10MINAREPLACE SECONDIFMODREPT TIMEIFERRORMROUNDRIGHT TIMEVALUENOTPISEARCH TODAYORPOWERSUBSTITUTE WEEKDAYFALSEQUOTIENTTRIM WEEKNUMTRUERANDUPPER YEARRANDBETWEENVALUE YEARFRACROUND ROUNDDOWN ROUNDUP SIGN SQRT SUM SUMSQ TRUNC

29. 29

31. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation & Project Botticelli Ltd. All rights reserved. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the opinions and views of Project Botticelli and/or Rafal Lukawiecki. The material presented is not certain and may vary based on several factors. Microsoft makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. Portions © 2011 Project Botticelli Ltd & entire material © 2011 Microsoft Corp unless noted otherwise. Some slides contain quotations from copyrighted materials by other authors, as individually attributed or as already covered by Microsoft Copyright ownerships. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Project Botticelli Ltd as of the date of this presentation. Because Project Botticelli & Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft and Project Botticelli cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. Project Botticelli makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. E&OE.