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Self-Service BI with
Angel AbundezRegional Practice Director, PacWest Business Intelligence/SQL
Excel &
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About Me
AngelAbundez
angelstreamline.com
@angelstreamline
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Agenda
The Ask
Typical Answers
Excel and Power BI
SharePoint BI
Fun Demo
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The AskHULK WANT
DATA!!!!
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Typical Answers
1. Submit a support ticket in writing to [email protected].
2. Specify a category and a priority.3. Don’t mark it Urgent unless its
mission-critical.4. What data do you need? Maybe
we’ll create a report for you in 1 week.
5. Maybe I’ll email you a csv file
and by the way…
YOU’RE WELCOME
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The Ask
Data ready to analyze, find correlations and patterns
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Typical Answers
Aw damn. I lost it.
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Don’t let this happen to you
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Excel and Power BI• Data blend large or small data sets
• Calculate Metrics w/ Excel-like formulas (DAX)
• In-memory xVelocity technology
• High compression
Power Pivot
• Pull data off the web• Web APIs• Web pages• Facebook• SharePoint• Hadoop
• Consolidate Multiple files
Power Query
• Interactive Data Visualization• Scatter Plots• Maps• Free form dashboard design
Power View
• 3D rendered Map imaging• Record time-lapse videos of how data changes in geographies
Power Map
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DemoExcel Power Pivot and Power View
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SharePoint BI
Excel Services• Don’t need Excel on your machine
• Drag and Drop in SP 2013• Manage Data Refresh in Power Pivot
• Put Workflows on analyses published by your team
• Viewable on Mobile Browsers
Power View•Analyze and Develop Dashboards from…•published Power Pivot workbooks
•Analysis Services via BISM or RDS•Embed in your site or portal•Currently on Silverlight with OnPrem
•HTML5 coming in SharePoint Online. OnPrem TBD
Reporting Services• Shared Data Sets• Shared Data Sources• Report Builder Web Parts• Self-Service User Alerts
Performance Point• Dashboards with standard look/feel
• Drill to Details• Change visualizations in the browser
• Decomposition Tree
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DemoPublish Excel workbooks to SharePoint
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SQL Server 2012
Import PowerPivot models into SQL Server Analysis Services
Tabular Model• PowerPivot in Visual Studio• Row-based security• Partitioning
Multidimensional OLAP• Can run Power View reports using RDS content type and SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU 4
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DemoMake tweaks to Tabular model in SSAS