1. Geolocation: Improving Our
BI Systems With SharePoint
Rubén Pertusa López (rpertusa@solidq.com)
Data Platform Architect, SolidQ
MAP, MCT, MCSA, PASS Spain
Sergio Carrillo Vila (scarrillovila@gmail.com)
Senior BI Developer, S&G Consulting
MAP, MCSA
@rpertusa
@scarrillovila

2. Ruben & Sergio
• Conference Speakers
• Based in Spain
• Book Authors
• Phd Candidate on Data Mining.
• Project Managers
• Microsoft Certifed Professional

3. Goals
• This session will help us understand many geo
visualization techniques.
• Share experience and challenges from SolidQ
projects during this year in the geo visualization
field.
• Demos, Demos, Demos! Let’s enjoy! 

4. Agenda
• Overview of GeoSpatial Analysis
• Visualization
– Sharepoint
– Reporting Services
– Excel Apps
– Power View
– Power BI Sites
– Power Map
**Special DEMO**
• Conclusion & Questions

5. OVERVIEW OF GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

6. GeoSpatial Analysis

7. GeoSpatial Analysis… How?
• Sharepoint geo native field type
• Reporting Services
• Excel Apps
• Power View
• Power BI Sites
• Power Map

8. Types of Visualization (I)
Sharepoint
• Geolocation field type

9. Types of Visualization (II)
Corporate BI
• Reporting Services

10. Types of Visualization (II)
Personal BI
• Excel Apps
• Power View
• Power Map

11. Types of Visualization (III)
Team BI
• Power BI in Office 365
– Power View
– Q&A

12. Last year’s experience @ SolidQ
• POC Worldwide Energy Company
– SSRS Maps + HDInsight + Multidimensional Cubes
• Datanomics Project
– HTML5/Jquery Maps + BigData + Sentiment Analysis +
Multidimensional Cubes
• New deployments in clients
– Power View Maps + Tabular cubes
In conclusion: Maps, Maps, Maps…

13. GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATION

14. Native in Sharepoint (I)
PROs
• New feature in SharePoint 2013
– On Premise and Office365!
• Libraries and Lists
– New type of view
• Latitude and Longitude
– Geolocation Accuracy 100%

15. Native in Sharepoint (II)
CONs
• Excel import/export is not supported
• Need Bing API Key
– 90 free days
• Not available from UI 
• Latitude and Longitude?

16. DEMO
Geolocate your Sharepoint lists

17. Reporting Services (I)
• Possibility of grouping layers in a map
– Line
– Point
– Polygon
• Some other features
– Subscriptions
– Export the map
• XML, CSV, PDF, Excel..
– Integrated with Sharepoint

18. Reporting Services (II)
• Optional connection to Bing
– May use an ESRI Shapefile map
– Create a map using T-SQL geospatial queries
• Importing our maps
– Shape2Sql tool
http://www.sharpgis.net/page/sql-server-2008-spatial-
tools.aspx

19. Navigation in SSRS Maps
• Drill-Down through actions
– Data Regions
• Data Sources
– GeoSpatial data: Relational Engine
– Aggregated Facts: Analysis Services Engine

20. DEMO
Geometric Shapes in SQL and Maps + Big Data

21. Excel 2013 Apps
• Not so popular but powerful
• Based in Javascript/HTML5
• Linked to a data range
• Some current free examples:
– Bing Maps
– Geographic Heat Map
• Totally compatible with Mobile devices and
Sharepoint

22. DEMO
Using Excel Apps to visualize data in maps

23. Get the most of Power View
Through SSRS in Sharepoint Mode
• Power View for Sharepoint
– Multidimensional cubes are supported (depends on SQL Version)
– BISM file
Through Excel
• Power View for Excel 2013
– Integrated Add-in, Limited
– Multidimensional cubes aren’t supported
• Power View Sheets in Excel for Office 365
– HTML5 compatibility, Limited
• Power View Sheets in Excel for Sharepoint
– Not HTML5, Limited

24. Versions of SQL Server
Current status of SSRS Engine for Power View
• SQL Server 2012 SP1
– New features: Maps, Pie charts, KPIs, themes, hierarchies.
• SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU4
– Compatibility with Multidimensional models (only
Sharepoint)
• SQL Server 2014 RTM
– Compatibility with Multidimensional models (only for
Sharepoint)

25. Maps in Power View
• Visualize series of data
– Bubbles
– Pie charts
• Polygon visualization isn’t supported
• Must have connection to Bing Maps
– Proxy issues

26. Geocoding in Power View
• Latitude/Longitude
– More exactly
– Store in the model as decimal data type
• With geocoding: Bing Maps
– Less exactly
– Data Category
• Country, City, Region, Postal Code, Lat, Long,etc.
– Hierarchies / Full location
“Madrid”

27. DEMO
Improving our Power View reports

28. Power BI Sites
• Collaborative visualization
• Power BI for Office 365
– Power BI Site
– Favorite reports
– Q&A (Natural language query)
• Share queries
• Save queries

29. DEMO
Colaborative visualization using Power BI for Office
365

30. Power Map
• Excel Add-in for 3D Visualization
– 32bit/64bit
– Only PowerPivot Data model or Excel data
• Visualization
– Heat map chart
– Region chart
– Bubble chart
– Column chart

31. Power Map (II)
Geocoding in Power Map
• Similar to Power View
• Needs connection to Bing Maps
• Shows % of conficence
Other features
• Create and export data tours
– Tell your story!

32. AND THE SPECIAL DEMO…

33. Ramsey! Here I am!
New chefs

34. 4 Key elements in a sucessful
3*** Michelin Restaurant
• Strong personality
• Delicious raw material
• Motivated working team
• Best location

35. DEMO
Picking up the best location for our restaurant

36. Conclusion
• Choose the best technology that fits our geospatial
requirements
• Download:
• Power Map Preview:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=38395

37. QUESTIONS?

38. Contact us!
• Rubén Pertusa López (rpertusa@solidq.com)
Twitter: @rpertusa
• Sergio Carrillo (scarrillovila@gmail.com )
Twitter: @scarrillovila
THANK YOU!