The State of SharePoint BI

Colin ByrneSharePoint Architect

Agenda

SharePoint ListsExcel ServicesReporting ServicesPerformancePointPowerPivotPowerViewPowerQueryPower BI Suite

SharePoint Lists

KPI Indicators in 2007 and 2010 Site Template Business Intelligence TemplateSources:

SharePoint ListExcel WorkbooksAnalysis ServicesManually Entered Information

2013Depreciated but can be accessed by creating a Report library and new pageNot recommended for new projects

SharePoint KPIs in 2013

Excel Services

Service SharePoint 2007,2010,2013 Ent Render Workbooks via the browser Good for PivotTables, PivotCharts, Slicers Can be extended via custom code via UDF’s

New in 2013 Vertipaq Engine PowerView

SQL Reporting Services

HTML Based Reporting Tables Graphs Sparklines Maps (2008 R2) Exports to Word, PDF .. UI for Parameters SQL 2012 Features SharePoint 2013 support Tablet support (iPad) PowerView Export Excel XLSX, Claims Auth

Performance Point

SharePoint BI Dashboards Charts, Grids, KPIs, Reporting Services Display SQL Server Cubes (SSAS not Tabular) SQL Reporting Services Excel Services Fixed Values

Windows Designer Client Provides Slicers to link Dashboard Parts Has a 2013 Version Enhanced with PowerShell migration Filter Enhancements iPAD Support

PerformancePoint

Great for dashboards, Cube drilldown and KPIs Future? August CU introduced a bug with SSRS reports A Workaround but no fix yet

PP Dashboard Designer

Reporting Services

SQL Reporting Services

Power Map

Microsoft Power Map for Excel is a three-dimensional (3-D) data visualization tool for Microsoft Excel 2013

Overlay Data on Maps (Bing) Create Tours, Videos Requires Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus or

Excel 2013 Standalone purchased with a volume license

PowerMap

PowerQuery

Find and connect data across a wide variety of sources prepare it for further analysis and modeling by tools such as

Power Pivot and PowerView Use the JSON parser to create data visualizations over Big Data

and Azure HDInsight Pull data into Power Pivot from new data sources, such as XML,

Facebook, and File Folders as refreshable connections. With the Power BI Preview edition, you can share and manage

queries as well as search data within your organization.

PowerPivot

AddIn for Excel 2010 and 2013 Engine installs as SharePoint Application Engine available as Analysis Services Tabular

Allows you to relate tables with each other Row limits larger than excel Model can be upload to SharePoint or Analysis

Services (Tabular) More flexible data sources than Excel Powerful DAX Formula language Time intelligence (Parallel Periods, Fiscal Years)

Power Query vs Power Pivot

Power Query good for importing data, shaping it, data transformations Importing Facebook, Hadoop, Web Pages, MySql Can merge data by combining queries M Query Language Search Public (US mainly) data sources e.g Data.gov, Wikipedia

Tables Power Pivot good for

data modelling, hierarchies, KPI’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) formulas Using a data warehouse

PowerQuery Data Sources

Web page Excel or CSV file XML file Text file Folder SQL Server database Windows Azure SQL Database Access database Oracle database IBM DB2 database MySQL database SharePoint List OData feed Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS Windows Azure Marketplace Active Directory Facebook

Power BI

Self Service Business Intelligence

Combination of existing tools Query+Pivot+View+Map

Cloud only option: Q&A, Data Management Gateway

Power BI

Office 365 Self Service BI Power Query Power Pivot Power View Power Map Q & A (Natural Language) Power BI Sites (SharePoint sites with Workbooks and

data Sources) Data Management Gateway

Power BI 0ffice 365 Setup

Service Descriptions: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819284.aspx

Data Management Gateway

Data Management Gateway

A Windows Service that is installed OnPrem Connects to SQL Server (Prevew) and provides an

OData feed Clients will use a O365 Url to connect This redirects locally if on the local network

otherwise it will refresh the data from the Cloud (not working in Preview)

Most Configuration done in the Power BI Portal Feeds can be searched via PowerQuery

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