learn how to develop and build business intelligence solutions in a tool you are alreeady familiar with, and with no intervention if IT

1. Build Self-Service Business Intelligence Solutions
with PowerPivot for Excel 2010
Juvénal CHOKOGOUE M

2. • The New Challenge…
• What this module Stands for ?
• Who is this module for ?
• Before battle begins
• What is Self-Service Business Intelligence ?
• What is PowerPivot for Excel ?
• What you can do with PowerPivot for Excel
• What Do you Need ?
• Deep Dive on Tutorial
• Bibliography & Resources
• About me

3. The New Challenge…
Today’s businesses face rapidly changing conditions, new technology, new competitive forces and new
consumer trends. As we look at the horizon, we see dramatic change standing out.
According to me, a “Rule of Thumb” to succeed today is optimal alignment of Information system,
including people, business process and data to organization’s objectives.
I focus more on optimal alignment of people (it is quit difficult !). At the heart of business, it is people
who make things happen. People garner insight from business applications to drive decisions that advance the
organization. But Now for the first time, there is two kind of people entering the workforce : the Web 1.0 generation
and the Web 2.0 generation:
 The first generation called Web 1.0 or “Digital Immigrants” (born within 1945 and 1950) is one which use
technologies as accessories to resolve problems. Face to problems, they use Cartesian reasoning. Generally, they
don’t like technologies change. They are not really fond of technology evolution.
 The second generation called Web 2.0 or “Digital Natives” (born between 1978 and 1990). is one that has
grown up always connected and always on-line. They spend an important part of their time building and maintaining
their social network (Facebook, LinkedIn, tweeter…). Face to problems, they use to experiment every things they
know until result. They demand access to anyone or anything from anywhere at any time on any device. At work
they expect the same intuitive experience they have in the rest of their lives with their slates, smartphones, and
social networks.
To conciliate this two generation, we think about building robust, intuitive and ease-of-use solutions
which connect organization and provide necessary information to every worker (each at level of his work) at anytime,
in everything from everywhere, to make people informed and make better decisions; all this in tools they’re already
familiar with

4. What this module Stands for ?
• This module is a Self-Training Kit which intend to provide you with necessary skills to
build and develop robust self-service Business Intelligence solutions without involving IT
Staff or Developer.
• This module is for explaining Business Intelligence generally and Self-Service Business
Intelligence particularly as methodologies that can enhance your reporting capabilities
and allows you to make decision based on business data and not on intuition.
• It presents real-case of Self-Service Business Intelligence solutions involving PowerPivot
for Excel. You will know in which area of your work you can use PowerPivot for Excel.

5. Who is this module for ?
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6. Before battle begins
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• information herein is for informational purposes only and represents my current point of view as of the date
of this presentation. Due to changing conditions of market, information provided here can be modify or
obsolete, , it should not be interpreted to be a commitment and I cannot guarantee the accuracy of any
information provided after date of this presentation.
• Contents of websites provided here can be modify or change, or the website itself can be unavailable after
the publication of this presentation. So I can not MAKES warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the
information in this presentation
• Pictures used here (in “What PowerPivot can do for you” section), are captures coming from real-world self-service
Business Intelligence solution involving PowerPivot for Excel and Excel 2010. I built and worked
myself on some of these solutions, and I downloaded others from Internet to provide you a comprehensive
set of use-case for self-service BI. If you are author of one that is here and that you don’t want to see it
anymore, please send me a mail and I will immediately remove it from the module.
• Microsoft, PowerPivot for Excel, Excel , SQL Server are Registered Trademarks of Microsoft in USA. Other
product names related here are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other
countries.

7. What is Self-Service Business Intelligence ?
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8. What is Self-Service Business Intelligence ?
users better business decisions
– Gartner

9. What is PowerPivot for Excel ?
SQL Server® add-in
PowerPivot for Excel is “a collection of applications and
services that supports the creation of user-managed, data-driven
BI solutions, supports relating and enriching large
volumes of heterogeneous data”.

10. What is PowerPivot for Excel ?
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Vertipaq,
PowerPivot for
Excel is an In-Memory Database application.
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11. What is PowerPivot for Excel ?
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single Excel workbook
day-to-day PC laptop

12. • With just a few mouse clicks you can conceive and implement intuitive and
interactive self-service Business Intelligence solutions in an environment which
is already familiar to you : Excel
• You can build reports which take data from the Line-Of-Business (LOB) system
and staging databases of your enterprise without help of IT staff.
• You can build yourself integrated reporting solutions with Enterprise Resources
Planning (ERP) of your company
• You can analyze very large amount of data store in staging database of your
company to make actionable decisions.

14. Business Data comparison…

15. Spatial analysis…

16. Account reporting…

17. Business Monitoring…

18. Social Network analytics…

19. What Do You Need ?
In order to have a practical knowledge of PowerPivot for Excel technology and well
as to perform this tutorial, you must meet this hardware and software
requirements :
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
We highly recommend that you use a computer that is not your primary workstation to perform this
Tutorial, because you will make changes to the operating system and application configuration.
The computer must meet the following minimum requirements:
■ PC or Laptop with at least 1-GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
■ At least 2 GB of RAM (x86 systems) or 4 GB of RAM (x64 systems)
■ Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution video adapter and monitor
■ Keyboard and Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device

20. What Do You Need ?
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
you need a computer running this software :
■ Compatible Operating System : Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows Vista with SP2,
Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 with SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 with
SP2, or Windows Server 2008 R2.
■ Microsoft Office 2010 32 bits or 64 bits containing at least Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Access
■ SQL Server 2008 Express Edition or higher (Optional)
CAUTION : Don’t worry now about PowerPivot, the tutorial include a specific course that explains how
to download PowerPivot for Excel and how to install it. Don’t worry about it now !

21. Deep Dive on Tutorial
On this stage, you take a deep look onto PowerPivot technology and build a real
solution. The overall tutorial stands in a set of 9 videos whose titles are listed
below. They are available for download at this URL : ……..Just download
videos and enjoy it !
• Introduction to scenario
• Download & Install PowerPivot for Excel
• Connect to several data sources and add data to your solution
• Link tables in your PowerPivot solution
• Create cubes & aggregated data
• Create KPI and performance indicators
• Create Reports & Pivot tables in your solution
• Enrich your solution
• Share your solution.

22. Bibliography & Resources
Excel Product Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/excel
PowerPivot Product Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot
Microsoft PowerPivot Website
http://www.powerpivot.com
PowerPivot and DAX Information Hub
http://www.powerpivot-info.com
PowerPivot Product Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot

23. • I am a freelance/Consultant specialized on data
Processing methods, methodologies and
technologies which allow organisations managers
to make day-to-day decisions for their business.
• I analyse IT Technology and its impact on the
Business leading and then I find the right IT
Technology which can fit to the business. I am all
about allowing organisations to capture data which
business process needs to complete successfully,
transform it into information and help managers to
make better decisions.
• I develop reliable, scalable and robust solutions in
tools information workers are already familiar to;
this to reduce time spend on learning and increase
performance.
Tools you’re
already
familiar with
Data
Information Knowledge Actionable
plans
Performance
This schemas describes my
methodology to provide solutions
that transform data into performance
Contact
Mail : juvenal.corp@gmail.com
Phone : +23798546599