The slides used for the PowerPivot Webinar hosted by Phil Hummel of WinWire technologies. Visit www.Winwire.com or write to info@winwire.com for more information

1. PowerPivotPrototyping Phil Hummel Director – Business Intelligence Practice WinWire Technologies

2. Agenda PowerPivot Overview Why do we need a prototyping environment? PowerPivot as a prototyping tool Q&A

3. Microsoft Business Intelligence Product Line DELIVERY COLLABORATION CONTENT MANAGEMENT SharePoint Server SEARCH Reports Dashboards Excel Visio Analytic Views Scorecards PowerPivot END USER TOOLS AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS Excel -Visio - ReportBuilder PerformancePoint BI PLATFORM SQL Server Reporting Services SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server DBMS SQL Server Integration Services LOB LOB

4. PowerPivot for SharePoint PowerPivot add-in for Excel

5. PowerPivot Workbook – Browser Access

6. PowerPivot Sweet Spot Several to many data sources that can be stored as “table objects” 2 dimensional with characteristics of a database table or view Easy to identify or construct a key to joins to other related data Users familiar with basic database (Access) concepts Users familiar with PivotTable functionality Excel “formula” experts

8. PowerPivot Services – Gallery View

9. Administer Your Server – With Insightful Tools Increase IT efficiency: Familiar Technologies for Authoring, Sharing, Security, and Compliance Customizable IT Dashboard Visualize usage with animated charts Simplify management of SSBI content usingIT Operations Dashboard for SharePoint

10. Server Monitoring Dashboard

11. PowerPivot FAQ 11

12. Why do we need a proto-typing environment MS Access and Excel are the current front-runners Lack IT visibility Lack community visibility Creative end-users make many demands on IT that don’t get traction Business users need to merge 3rd party data with corporate data plus assumptions They do not have well thought out requirements IT can waste lots of resources chasing the requirements

13. PowerPivot Prototyping IT can offer training and advice on using PowerPivot for prototyping. IT provides access to corporate managed data sets. Business users build models using Excel with PowerPivot add-in. IT supplies server resources for hosting PowerPivot models IT monitors PowerPivot model usage including both users and server resources Business users continue to develop new versions IT works with business to create an enterprise scalable application when the business value is high enough to justify the cost

14. PowerPivot Summary Client and server components Users need access to data – they do the analytics Server components required to share PowerPivot models on the intranet Server components come with built-in monitoring for IT to effectively manage Models that become “important” to the business are good candidates for an enterprise application This approach can get IT off the critical path for some sets of users and business needs

15. Q&A

16. THANK YOU For further information, please contact: Phil Hummel Director – BI Practice phil.hummel@winwire.com @WinWire