At course completion students will know how to:
- Use PowerPivot 2013 in Excel.
- Work with DAX.
- Create Power View vizualizations.
- Understand data models.
- Save to SharePoint.
- Surface on SharePoint.
- Work with the SharePoint Business Intelligence Center.
- Create dedicated apps in SharePoint for PowerPivot and Power View.
- Use PowerPivot within Excel to import a table from SQL Server.
- Use PowerPivot within Excel to import a table from SQL Server Analysis Services.
- Hide columns they don’t want reflected in the resulting PivotTable.
- View the relationships existing within the imported tables from SQL Server and then import an additional table and configure a relationship between it and the existing.
- Create a PivotTable within an existing worksheet.
- Navigate and successfully use Power View.
- Create a table.
- Create a chart.
- Save and share their work.
- Create a BI semantic model.
- Explore the options and settings available within the new SharePoint 2013 Central Administration and Excel Services.
- Access and review the Secure Store.
- Create a new web application and business intelligence site while exploring the features of both.
- Create custom apps to store visualizations and/or workbooks in SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence Center.
This course is intended for analysts, business intelligence (BI) developers and IT professionals that will be involved with the design, development, and maintenance of Excel workbooks utilizing PowerPivot and Power View 2013 to be surfaced on SharePoint. NOTE: Before attending this course, students must have:
- Basic Excel skills;
- Experience creating PivotTables;
- Ability to create formulas in Excel that uses ‘nested formulae’;
- Familiarity with data modeling, as discussed in the Access Part 1 course;
- An understanding of the meaning to import data from a different data source like an SQL server;
- A basic understanding of a SharePoint site. What it is, document libraries, and how to upload a file.
