SharePoint 2013 BI Features & Options

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Today’s Outline Part 1 – SharePoint On-Prem BI Options SSRS, Power View, Excel Part 2 – Power BI PowerBI.com vs Power BI Desktop

SharePoint 2013 BI Features and Applications Service Applications: Excel Services – Allows for working with Excel workbooks within the browser. PowerPivot for SharePoint - Used for loading and processing PowerPivot and tabular data models. SQL Server Reporting Services (SharePoint Integrated) – Allows for SSRS Reports and includes features for Power View. PerformancePoint – Specific to SharePoint. Used for KPI’s, Dashboards, and custom reports.

BI Features for SQL Server Editions SQL Server 2012 Enterprise PowerPivot Power View SSRS PerformancePoint SQL Server 2012 Standard SSRS (1 Farm Server Only) PerformancePoint SharePoint 2013 Standard Edition SSRS

Types of Connections and Applications Service Applications need to be setup for: SSRS, Excel Services, PowerPivot, & Performance Point Features need to be enabled and Content types added to lists.

Self Service BI & Power Pivot / Power View

The “Power” tools

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What is Self Service BI? Empower the Users! Giving Business Users the ability to quantify or measure the data they work with everyday. The data the they may actually know or understand better than most. It does not get rid of the Data Analyst or BI Developer. It actually provides more opportunity for BI success, and can assist in better decision making.

Lifecycle of BI

Data Modeling Options PowerPivot SSAS Tabular Model SSAS Multidimensional Model

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