High level introduction to MS PowerPivot and PerformancePoint Services (PPS) 2010. Used in conjunction to a training course. Initial slides also provide a high level comparison of PowerPivot vs. PerformancePoint.
MS PowerPivot & PerformancePoint 2010 Introduction
1. Introduction & Basic Training to
MS PowerPivot & PerformancePoint 2010
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2. Agenda
PowerPivot & Performance Point
Introduction and Training
High Level Comparison
Product Highlights:
PowerPivot Excel Add In
PowerPivot SharePoint Add In
PerformancePoint Services 2010 (PPS)
Demo/Basic Training:
PowerPivot Excel Add In
PerformancePoint Services 2010 (PPS)
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3. PowerPivot & PPS At-a-Glance
PowerPivot PerformancePoint
SQL/OLTP, view all imported data Analysis Services
Data XML feeds, tabular, Reporting Service SQL, Tabular, PowerPivot
XML Feeds, cannot view detailed data
UI: Relationships, calculated
Data columns/measures with auto-fill, automated MDX
Manipulation PivotTable conversion to DAX No UI manipulations
Language(s): DAX, MDX, T-SQL
Scheduled (SP) Live connection / upon browser
Data Refresh
Manual (Excel) request/refresh
PowerPivot tables & charts KPI’s, Charts, Data Grids, Scorecards,
All other features available in Excel Extendable Dashboards, Strategy Maps,
Visualization
Scorecard, Strategy Maps, Extendable External Reports, Web pages
Pivot Table/Chart areas, web pages What-if Analysis, some visualization types
available only to Analysis Services
PivotTable & Charts Slicers Drill up/down, Top/Bottom N & value
Slicing & All other filter, find, and sort features filters, Decomposition Tree, Independent
Dicing available in Excel reusable filters
‘Native’ Multidimensional drilling Multidimensional drilling for non-OLAP
Performs at its Best / Pros Supports Does Not Support / Cons
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4. Base Software/Upgrade Requirements
Performance
PowerPivot PowerPivot
Point/Dashboard
Excel Add In SharePoint Add In
Install Requirement Designer (SP)
Windows Server 2008
.NET Framework 3.5
SQL Server 2008 SP2010 Requires / PPS
can use SQL 2005 data
VisualStudio 2008
Excel 2010
SharePoint 2010
Silverlight 3
Mandatory Required for some features
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6. PowerPivot Excel Highlights
Import large datasets from a variety of sources, from SQL
databases to XML data feeds
Easy to use wizards
Existing relationships are respected
Easily build or detect relationships to other
tables (tabs)
Data refresh available
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7. PowerPivot Excel Highlights
All data visualizations and interactions are via Excel
PowerPivot PivotTables & Charts
Easy to use wizard with drag & drop controls
Vertical and
Horizontal Slicers
(interactive filters)
Add new measures
Auto detects
relationships and
creates them for you
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8. PowerPivot Excel Highlights
Data Analysis Expression (DAX) very similar to Excel formula
expressions
Column name orientation instead of cell/row:
=[revenue]-[cost]
Familiar nested IF statements:
=IF([Calls]<200,"low",IF([Calls]<300,"medium","high"))
Select formula reference
elements either by typing,
navigating and selecting with
the mouse, or pick list
Convert any PivotTable to
DAX formulas
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9. PowerPivot SharePoint Highlights
PowerPivot managed via SharePoint Central Administration,
PowerPivot Management Dashboard and PowerPivot System
Service
Monitor and manage the PowerPivot for SharePoint
environment
Back-end management of PowerPivot application database,
load balancing, usage data collection, automatic data refresh,
auto discovery and usage of new farm server resources
Scheduled data refreshes
Rich interactive presentation layer
Multidirectional data sharing
Web service for external applications to access (Reporting
Services) / Launch Report Builder from SP2010 & access it’s
data
From SharePoint export data/documents to PowerPivot
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11. PPS & SharePoint 2010
Service within SharePoint 2010
Leverages SP2010’s security
100% synchronized content integration between the BI Center
and Dashboard Designer
Dashboard, dashboard components, and reports are available
for immediate use in SP2010 via web parts
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12. PPS: Dashboard Designer
Front end for Analysis Services maximizing its cubed data and
hierarchies. Many new/improved features such as:
Decomposition Tree
Time Intelligence
Independent filters
Multiple KPI’s per scorecard, KPI
Detail Reports
Scorecard and chart drilling, &
hierarchy expansion
Top/Bottom N filters,
User defined filters
Retired features: Trend Charts, PivotTable
reports, PivotChart reports, ODBC data
sources, Analysis Services 2000, and 32-bit
server architecture
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13. PPS: Dashboard Designer
Launch Dashboard Designer from the Business Intelligence
Center Site
Access a variety of data sources and external content:
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14. PPS: Dashboard Designer
Make available to SP2010 a variety of content in web parts:
Or construct dashboards (using dashboard components &
reports) and easily publish to SP2010:
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15. PowerPivot Training/Demo
Add 2 data sources
Create a relationship link between the data sources
Add calculated column using DAX
Create a PivotTable & Pivot Chart
Detect Relationship
Item selection
Slicers
Format
Add a new Measure using DAX
Convert PivotTable to DAX
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16. PPS Training/Demo
Add a data source (with Time Intelligence in mind)
Create a Time filter
Create a Chart
Create 2 KPI’s
Create a Scorecard from KPI’s
Create a KPI Details Report
Create a Dashboard incorporating the above elements
Deploy to SharePoint
Show Drilling & Expansion, Top/Bottom N Drilling, Value
Filter, & Decomposition Tree
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