1. The power of Power Pivot Cristian Nicola DynamicsBIGuide.com

2. #NAVUGforum Summary Introduction Reading data with Power Pivot Building your first Power Pivot report Building a Power Pivot Data Model Power Pivot Advanced Design Examples Q & A

3. #NAVUGforum Introduction

4. #NAVUGforum Power Pivot: Built By Business Users …Managed By IT Free Self-Service BI Add-on in Excel 2010, 2013 & Office 365 Leverages familiar Excel features (Pivot Table, Pivot Charts) and Excel functions format Available both as “Personal BI” (using Excel) or “Corporate BI” (along with SharePoint and SQL Server)

5. #NAVUGforum Power Pivot offers the Low Startup Cost and Agility of Spreadsheets Blended with the Robustness and Low Ongoing Cost of “Traditional BI” Credit: PowerPivotPro.com

6. #NAVUGforum Power Pivot Benefits Ability to handle up to hundreds of millions of rows in a single workbook, while maintaining manageable file sizes and fast performance PivotTable and PivotCharts built over multiple tables of data without requiring those tables to be VLOOKUP’d together into a single table The capability to quickly create mashups that cross reference and integrate data from multiple sources New formula engine for PivotTables that goes far beyond any formulas capabilities available in Excel to date

7. #NAVUGforum Reading Data with Power Pivot

8. #NAVUGforum Generic Data Sources Any SQL database Any ODBC Connection Web Services and ODATA Web Services OLAP Cubes Excel Spreadsheets … and many more

9. #NAVUGforum Microsoft Dynamics Data Sources Dynamics NAV : SQL Tables, Views and Queries (any version running on SQL database), ODATA Web Services (NAV 2013, NAV 2013 R2 and up) Dynamics CRM : SQL Tables, Views and Queries, ODATA Web Services

10. #NAVUGforum A spreadsheet is worth 1000 slides

11. #NAVUGforum Building your first Power Pivot report Demo

12. #NAVUGforum Building a Power Pivot Data Model Demo of Table Relationships

13. #NAVUGforum Power Pivot Advanced Design Examples Demo

14. #NAVUGforum Is this it? … No there is more Power View Power Map Power Query Power BI for Office 365

15. Questions Cristian Nicola cnicola@ncadynamics.com DynamicsBIGuide.com