2. About MarkTab
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• Atlanta 20 Years
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• SAS and Microsoft SQL Server – Training and Consulting
• Currently employed by SolidQ http://solidq.com
• Website: marktab.net
• Twitter @marktabnet
• Today’s slides were derived from Microsoft’s SQL Server
2014 Developer Training Kit
3. Today’s Slides
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• Heavily borrowed from Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014
Developer Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=41704
• See my past slidedecks: http://slideshare.net/marktab
4. Source: Big Data & CIO Adoption Quantitative Research, Sept 2012, Microsoft
Challenges to unlocking data
insights
Integration with
existing tools
41%
Security &
manageability
37%
Lack of skills
& knowledge
59%
Connected
devices per adult
4.3
11. SharePoint Composites
12
Version Number of
employees
Type Amount of
Code
Expense report
features
Time to
complete
Comments
1.0 1 to 25 Small Business
Enterprise
Team
None Mileage re-
imbursement
automatically calculated
based on a list, list form,
and formulas
Two days A quick solution
1.1 26 to 50 Small Business
Enterprise
Workgroup
None Trip re-imbursement
based on an InfoPath
form with validation
and rules
Two weeks An enhanced
solution
1.2 51 to 200 Midsize Business
Enterprise
Department
Low InfoPath form
converted to an Excel
template; Document
Information Panel;
reporting with Excel
Services.
Two weeks A further enhanced
solution
2.0 201 to 500 Midsize Business
Enterprise
Division
Custom Web
Part and
Workflow action.
Enhanced user interface
with advanced approval
workflow.
One month A major
improvement
expanded to more
employees
3.0 1,001 plus Large Enterprise A complete,
managed code
solution
Integrated, company-
wide expense report
system
Four months A robust, scalable
solution
19. Advanced analytic tools for
data scientists
• Advanced descriptive analytics
(e.g. clustering algorithm in SQL Server
Analysis Services)
• Predictive analytics
(Neural Nets, Regression, Decision Tree,
Time Series, Naïve Bayes algorithms
in SQL Server Analysis Services)
• Further advanced analytics
(Semantic Search and Geospatial Data
and functions in SQL Server 2012)
• Big Data analytics
(Hadoop integration)
20. Data mining add-in for business
analysts
• Ease of use
• Rich data mining
• Scalable
26. Power Query
Enable self-service data discovery, query, transformation and mashup experiences for Information
Workers, via Excel and PowerPivot
Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources, spanning volume as well as
variety of data.
Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries
over any data source, any size.
Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources.
Joins across different data sources; ability to create custom views over data that can
then be shared with team/department.
27. Power Query
• Excel add-in to enhance self-service
BI
• Identify and import external data:
• Relational dB
• Excel
• Text
• XML
• OData
• Web pages
• Hadoop HDFS
• Discover relevant data by using
search
• Combine and transform multiple
data sources
Discover, combine, and refine Big Data, small data,
and any data with Data Explorer for Excel
31. Introducing PowerPivot
• PowerPivot empowers business users to create self-service BI
data models in Excel
‐ Achieved with a client-side version of SQL Server Analysis Services,
known as the In-Memory Analytics Engine
‐ Can efficiently store data volumes far greater than what Excel
worksheets can achieve
• A separate window can be used to load, explore, relate, and
enrich data with calculations
• Can import and relate data from corporate, local, and ad hoc
data stores
• In Excel 2013 Professional Plus edition, PowerPivot is installed,
but not enabled
32. PowerPivot for SharePoint
• PowerPivot for SharePoint extends SharePoint 2013 and Excel Services to add
server-side processing, collaboration, and document management support
for the PowerPivot workbooks published to SharePoint
• The PowerPivot Gallery, a special type of document library, is provided to
browse published PowerPivot workbooks and to configure automatic data
refresh
• The PowerPivot Service deploys the embedded data model to an Analysis
Service instance within the SharePoint farm, and Excel Services is used to
query the deployed data model
• Data connections can be defined to query the PowerPivot data model by
using the document URL
34. Power Map for Microsoft Excel enables information workers to discover and share new insights
from geographical and temporal data through three-dimensional storytelling.
What is Power Map?
38. Introducing Power View
• Power View is an interactive data exploration, visualization,
and presentation experience
‐ Highly visual design experience
‐ Rich meta-driven interactivity
‐ Presentation-ready at all times
• It delivers intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users
• Reports can be based on tabular data models, including
PowerPivot data models
• It is now also available in Excel 2013, and with new features:
39. Power View for multidimensional models
• Power View on Analysis Services via
BISM
• Native support for DAX in Analysis
Services
• Better flexibility: Choice of DAX on
Tabular or Multidimensional
(cubes)
