Microsoft Excel 2013 introduces a brand new self-service BI tool called Power View. This is also a part of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 included with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Service Pack 1 Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise Edition. Both of the client side (Excel) and server side (SharePoint) implementations of Power View offer an interactive way to explore and visualize your data as well as to generate interactive reports on top of the underlying data.
The rest of this chapter shows a sample Power View report based on the facebookinsights
table's data to give you a quick idea about the powerful reporting features from the surface level. The details on 'How to design a Power View report' as well as Power View integration with SharePoint is outside the scope of this book and are not discussed in depth.
Note
Power View is only supported in Excel 2013. You need to install the Power View add-in for Excel.
To create a Power View report based on the...