Build Self-Service Business Intelligencewith PowerPivot for Excel 2010

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• Who I am ?

• My Vision & 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

• Deep Dive on Tutorial

• Bibliography & Resources

• 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

survey.

• I am all about allowing organisations to acquire,

store 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

your performance.

Tools you’re

already

familiar with

DataInformation Knowledge Actionable

plansPerformance

This schemas describes my methodology to provide solutions which can enhance productivity

My Vision & 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 ofsystems, people, business process and data to organization’s objectives, to maximize results.

I focus more on optimal alignment of people (it is the most difficult to achieve). 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 don’t want to learn anymore.

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 must 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 to : Mobile phone, Excel, Laptop…

What this module Stands for ?

• This module is for explaining business Intelligence generally and Self-

Service Business Intelligence particularly as methodologies that can

enhance your productivity and allows you to make better decisions.

• This module is about building a real-case Self-Service Business

Intelligence solutions in a commodity PC.

• 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.

• It prepares you to build robust Business Intelligence solutions yourself

without involving IT department or Developer.

Who is this module for ?•

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* Conceived of and described by Edward Tufte, author of Beautiful Evidence

Before battle begins •

• 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.

• 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 capture coming from real-world self-service Business Intelligence solution involving PowerPivot for Excel and Excel 2010. I build myself, worked 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.

What is Self-Service Business Intelligence ?

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users better business decisions

• – Gartner

What is PowerPivot for Excel ?

“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”.

Visualizes data using PivotTables, PivotCharts, filters, and

slicers

What is PowerPivot for Excel ?•

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• 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.

Deep Dive on Tutorial

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