Many of our SharePoint clients are asking this question, "How do I develop an executive dashboard to surface meaningful business data?" View C/D/H’s slide deck and let us show you, with: • An overview of Microsoft BI Platform • Excel Services • Business Connectivity Services • Performance Point Services • SQL Reporting Services with SharePoint Integration • PowerPivot for SharePoint And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.

1. SharePoint Virtual Series:
Business Intelligence in SharePoint

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6. Your Presenter
Amy Moore
Consultant
MBA, MCDBA, MCTS
AmyM@cdh.com

7. Agenda
• Microsoft Business Intelligence
• Excel Services
• Performance Point
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• Power Pivot
• Power View

8. Microsoft BI Stack
• SQL Server 2012
• Office 2010
• SharePoint Server
2010

9. Microsoft Business Intelligence

10. Microsoft Business Intelligence
“Microsoft may only offer around 80% of advanced
BI functionality as compared with other leading
vendors, but what it lacks in features it more than
makes up for in cost/benefits ratios.” - Forrester
Wave Self Service BI Platforms 2012

11. Excel Services - Overview
• Share, secure, manage workbooks on the
web
• Web services, web parts, web access,
calculation services
• Calculate on the server, run in the browser
• Version control, check-in/check-out, etc.

12. Excel Services - Example

13. Excel Services - Example

14. Excel Services - Usage
• Spreadsheets
• Reports
• Charts
• Dashboards
• Connect to external data
• Share and control on SharePoint

15. Excel Services - Requirements
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
• Excel Services Service Application
• Secure Store Service Application

16. Performance Point - Overview
• Create dashboards and scorecards and
publish to SharePoint
• Dashboard designer
• Decomposition tree, web parts, KPIs

17. Performance Point - Example

18. Performance Point -
Requirements
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
• Performance Point Service Application
• Excel Services Service Application
• Secure Store Service Application

19. SQL Server Reporting Services
– Overview
• Report writer for the web
• SharePoint integrated mode
– Reports managed in SharePoint report
libraries
– Storage and organization within SharePoint
using libraries, folders, views, etc.
– Security
– Report builder built-in

20. SQL Server Reporting Services -
Usage
• Need traditional report builder - static (not
interactive)
• Need reports formatted to print, export,
etc.

21. SQL Server Reporting Services -
Requirements
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature
• SharePoint add-in for Reporting Services
• SQL 2012 – SSRS Service application

22. Power Pivot - Overview
• Load very large data sets into Excel using
in-memory technology
• Quickly model and process very large data
sets
• Create pivot table and filter, slice and dice,
drill down/up, etc….and fast!

23. Power Pivot - Usage
• Built for Excel power-user, meant for quick
“trial and error” reporting
• Example: Connect to data warehouse, link
with other data sources, mash it up into a
pivot table, explore

24. Power Pivot - Examples

25. Power Pivot - Gallery

26. Power Pivot - Requirements
• SQL Server Enterprise Edition
• Excel Add-in for Power Pivot
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

27. Power View - Overview
• Thin web client (Silverlight) runs in the
browser
• Extension of Power Pivot
• Creates interactive "slides" or "views"
• Design tool to add visualizations to the
view/report
• Visualizations: Slicers, navigation controls,
charts, cards and tiles

28. Power View - Example

29. Power View - Demo
• More interactive, dynamic, ad hoc
Demo:
https://businessintelligencedemoportal.com/s
ites/contosoenergy/SitePages/pvrsample.as
px

30. Power View - Requirements
• Enterprise or BI Editions of SQL 2012
• Reporting services in SharePoint
integrated mode
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise
• Silverlight, IE8+

31. Thank You
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