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Microsoft PowerPivot for SQL Server,Excel 2010, and SharePoint 2010

Michael HermanSyntergy, Inc.

mwherman@syntergy.com

Michael Herman

• Principal ConsultantSyntergy, Inc.

• SharePoint Architect and Developer

• 11+ years of SharePoint Experience

• 5+ Years at Microsoft• SharePoint Product Group

Leading Enterprise ClassReplication Solution

for Microsoft SharePoint

Full Presentation on Nov. 23, 2010 http://www.mspug.ca

SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence:Corporate BI vs. Self-Service BI

Corporate Business Intelligence

• ETL, Fact Tables, Dimensions, Cubes, Data Marts and Data Warehouses

• Expensive, highly-specialized BI data analysts and developers

• Data quickly becomes disconnected and unrecognizable from its sources

Self-Service Business Intelligence

• New paradigm– “Business intelligence for the masses”– “Managed self-service business intelligence”

• Put simple, powerful BI tools in the hands of “knowledge workers”– Familiar tools: Excel– People who own the data

• Excel spreadsheet, Access database or SharePoint list data

– Reality: Office power users

MS SQL Server 2008 R2

• Many new features including…• PowerPivot Technologies– Ability to easily create self-service BI applications

using familiar tools (MS Excel)– Easy to update and modify without being a BI

developer– Don’t need to install SQL Server 2008 R2

What is Microsoft PowerPivot?

• PowerPivot for Excel: Free Technology– Excel add-in that enhances Excel’s capabilities for

creating and editing PowerPivot applications. Requires Excel 2010

– Runs best with lots of RAM and Windows x64• PowerPivot for SharePoint: Licensed– SharePoint 2010 extension that enhances

SharePoint’s enterprise capabilities for sharing and managing PowerPivot applications. Requires SharePoint 2010

PowerPivot Applications

• Appear to be ordinary Excel workbooks• Have a UI that looks like a collection of tabbed

Excel spreadsheets• Can store 2-3 orders of magnitude more rows

of data than a spreadsheet can store (100’s millions of rows vs. 1 million rows)

• Version 1 Limitation: 2GB XLSX file size

PowerPivot Applications

• PowerPivot tables (spreadsheets) can be joined across related columns– Can be used as data sources for Excel Pivot Tables

and Pivot Charts• PowerPivot data and metadata stored

(embedded) in .XLSX files using new storage extensibility feature called Custom Data Parts (CDP) introduced in Excel 2010

PowerPivot for Excel Architecture

PowerPivot for Excel

PowerPivot for Excel Installation

• .NET 3.5 SP1• Install with Office Shared Services (VSTO)– Else uninstall and re-install Office 2010

• Vista/Windows Server 2008: Platform Update (KB971644) and SP2 or greater

• Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2: no special requirements

• Possibly ADO/OLE DB drivers for non-MS data sources

Excel 2010 PowerPivot Ribbon

Excel 2010 PowerPivot Window

Excel 2010 PowerPivot Window

PowerPivot Data Import Wizard

Analysis Services: VertiPaq mode

• Analysis Services Engine Design Changes– Calculation Engine and Storage Engine

• Traditional (MOLAP) Storage Engine tuned for disk based storage– From when disk was cheap and RAM was $$$

• VertiPaq Storage Engine– Lots of cheap RAM => In-memory storage– Column-oriented data compression > 10:1– Support for column-oriented DAX queries

DAX Calculated Columns

PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010

SP2010 PowerPivot Architecture

DEMO

PowerPivot for ExcelPowerPivot for SharePoint

Questions?

mwherman@syntergy.com

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