SharePoint 2013 BI ScenariosAndreas Rudolf ASCHAUER

Alegri International

About me..

Andreas AschauerSoftware Architect

SharePointTrainer / Consultant

Alegri International Austria

Head of Consulting

Agenda

Business IntelligenceDefinition

GoalsPitfalls

Benefits

Evolution of BIData Analysis

Power BI

BI in SharePoint 2013Technologies

Tools

What is…Business Intelligence• Applications analysing raw organization data• A set of activities including– Data Mining– Online analytical processing (OLAP)– Querying– Reporting

What is…Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Information Management

DWH

ECM

BPM

Goals

Improve (Enable) decision making Improving processes

Pitfalls• Poor data leads to poor results• Lack of business process knowledge• Choose the right processes / data to analyze

Benefits• Identification of flawed processes or interactions• Discovery of missing or „dirty“ data• Higher accessibility of data for business users• BI can transform organisations

A tale of Beer and Diapers

Using Data Mining a major retailer found unknown correlations between purchases

A tale of Beer and Diapers

Time

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Demographics

Males 25-35

Purchased Items

BeerDiapers

…

A tale of Beer and Diapers

+ 20 %

BI in SharePoint 2013Team / Self Service• Excel / Excel Services• Power View• Power Pivot

Corporate• Performance Point Services• Reporting Services• Visio Services• BPM Components

ConsiderationsGovernance• Who are the users• Where are the results

stored• How to make sure data is

accessible• How to make sure data is

correctly interpreted

Scope• Organizational Scope• Purpose• How to handle conclusions

Excel / Excel Services

• Users: End Users• Location: File Systems, SharePoint• Scope: Team Level

• Little governance• Little control over access and data integrity/interpretation• How to improve: Excel >> Excel Services

Power View

• Interactive Dashboards• Maps• Presentation-Ready data analysis• Embedded in Excel Sheets

Power Pivot

• In-Memory analytic data modelling engine• Embedded in Excel• Allows definition of relationships between datasources

DEMO

PowerView & PowerPivot

Visio Services

• “Static” diagramming engine• Data-Connected diagrams• SharePoint – Hosted• Governed by SharePoint Service Administration• Ability to create “Mashups”

DEMO

Visio & Visio ServicesMashups & Connected Diagrams

Reporting Services

• “Static” reporting engine• Report designer• Export functionality for printing• Governed by SharePoint Service Administration

Reporting Services

• Users: ITPro / Developers• Location: File Systems, SharePoint, SQL Server• Scope: Department / Corporate Level

• Strict governance• Full control over access and data integrity/interpretation• How to improve: ??

Performance Point Services

• Designer (Stand-Alone Client Software)• Design of interactive dashboards• Definition of Scorecards, KPI’s, Metrics and Thresholds• Integration of multiple data sources• Purely web (SharePoint) based• Mobile access• Governed by SharePoint Service Administration

Performance Point Services

• Users: IT Pro / Analyst• Location: SharePoint• Scope: Department/Corporate Level

• Strict governance• Full control over access and data integrity/interpretation• Clean layer to integrate data from disparate sources

Performance Point Services

Performance Point

Excel Services

Excel Datasources

Excel Sheets

SQL Server

Analysis Services

Web Service

s ..

BPM & Workflow Components

Procedures vs. Practices

Process Data• Analysis of process bottlenecks• Identification of people involved• Measures on duration and throughput

Onward to Data Analysis

• Microsoft Power BI– Cloud-Based– In-Memory Modeling and Analysis– Collaborative– Mobile Access– Q&A > Ask your data

Power BI Overview

Discover & Combine Model & Analyze Visualize

Share&

Collaborate

Discover & CombinePowerQuery in Excel•Web page•Excel or CSV file•XML file•Text file•Folder•SQL Server database•Windows Azure SQL Database•HDInsight•Access database•Oracle database•IBM DB2 database•MySQL database•SharePoint List•OData feed•Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)•Windows Azure Marketplace•Active Directory•Facebook•SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

Analyze

PowerPivot in Excel• Build data models• Create KPI‘s• Create hierarchies

• Load 100‘s of millions of rows into memory

Visualize

PowerView & PowerMap

Collaborate

Power BI Sites in SharePoint

Ask your data..

Ask questions in natural language

Microsoft BI Solution Builder

• What BI capabilities are available to me?• What do I want to achieve?• What do I need for that ?

http://bisolutionbuilder.com/

Wrap up• Identify approaches to Business Intelligence• Identify capabilities• Choose to right set of tools• Different scenarios might require different approaches (Team BI / Corporate BI)

Next steps

& enjoy ESPC 14

Thank you !

Andreas Aschaueraaschauer@Alegri.eu

@aschaueraLinkedIn

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