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Melissa Meyer Senior Consultant [email protected] Self-Service BI with PowerPivot Covenant Technology Partners

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Melissa MeyerSenior Consultant

[email protected]

Self-Service BI with PowerPivot

Covenant Technology Partners

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Housekeeping Follow SharePoint Saturday St. Louis on

Twitter @spsstlouis and hashtag #spsstl Play “Sponsor Bingo” to register for your

chance to win one of the many great giveaways at the end of the day

Schedule and evaluate each session you attend via our mobile app that can be used across devices at http://spsaturday.cloudapp.net

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Outline What is PowerPivot and why does it rock? What’s new in the newest edition? Demo Questions

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PowerPivot for Excel Free Add-in for Excel Import, Model, Relate data from disparate

sources SSAS Excel Relational DBs

Create Calculated fields and use them anywhere

xVelocity In Memory Engine Store Millions of rows of data in Excel

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PowerPivot for SharePoint Server hosting of PowerPivot Data Scheduled Refresh Leverages SharePoint to administer and

secure PowerPivot workbooks Ability to easily collaborate and share

PowerPivot workbooks Source for Power View, SSRS Reports and

Excel

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DAX Based on Excel formulas and relational concepts Easy to get started Ability to create complex calculations

Recursion Time Intelligence Lookups based on Relationships

ExamplesTotalSales:= SUM ( [SalesAmount] )SalesYTD:= TOTALYTD ( SUM ( [SalesAmount] )

, ’Date’ [FullDateAlternateKey] , ALL ( Date ) )SalesPctOfQuota:= IF ( ISFILTERED ( 'Date‘ [EnglishMonthName] ) , BLANK() , DIVIDE ( SUM ( ResellerSales [SalesAmount] ) ,

SUM ( [SalesAmountQuota] ) , 0 ) )

Types of Functions

Date and Time Filter Logical Math and Trig Statistical Time Intelligence

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Date Best Practices Create a Date table Date table should have a continuous range

of dates – no gaps Mark it as Date table Lowest grain should be day without

hours/min/secs

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What’s New In PowerPivot

New DAX Functions USERELATIONSHIP DISTINCTCOUNT RANK CROSSJOIN LOOKUPVALUE SWITCH PATH PATHITEM And More…

Diagram View Hierarchies Calculation Area Perspectives KPIs Date Table Settings And More…

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DEMO

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Session Evaluations Schedule and evaluate each session you attend via

our mobile app that can be used across devices at http://spsaturday.cloudapp.net

You will be able to evaluate a session 25 minutes before the scheduled end time

Evaluations are stored anonymously and your feedback is appreciated

The app will be the only method available to submit session evaluations for the event and we hope you find it intuitive and convenient

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Thank You!

Questions?