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Power View, a feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition. Power View is an interactive data exploration,
visualization, and presentation experience.
Important: Please visit Power
View documentation on office.microsoft.com for the most up-to-date content. Power View is now a feature of Microsoft Excel 2013, and as part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013 Enterprise
Editions. Power View provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers. They
can easily create and interact with views of data from data models based on PowerPivot workbooks or tabular models deployed to SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (SSAS) instances. Power View is a browser-based Silverlight application launched from SharePoint
Server 2010. Tutorials Microsoft MVP Jen Stirrup Talks Trellis Charts And Power View! Power View Overview
See What’s new in Power View in Excel 2013 and in SharePoint Server.
Table of Contents
Useful links for Power View, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SQL Server 2012
SQL Server
Reporting Services team blog
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Forum
SQL Server 2012 Samples
Videos
Getting Started and Getting the Most out of Project Crescent
Project Crescent Demo from WPC11
Project Crescent Demo: Introduction to Highlighting (Sean Boon's blog and video)
Power View Demo by Dan English
SQL Shorts: SQL 2012 Power View on SharePoint 2010 on Channel 9 by Mike Wilmot
SQLShorts: Installing and Configuring PowerPivot, Power View on SharePoint 2010 on Channel 9 by Mike Wilmot
SQLShorts: PowerPivot and Power View Lifecycle and BI Semantic Model (BISM) Overview on Channel 9 by Mike Wilmot
Power View videos on MSBI Academy
The Hans Rosling project on Cathy Dumas's blog
Tutorial: Create a Sample Report in Power View updated for SQL Server 2012 RTM
Tutorial: Optimize a Sample PowerPivot Model for Power View Reports updated for SQL Server 2012 RTM
Samples
Power View and PowerPivot HelloWorldPicnic Samples for SQL Server 2012 RTM
Power View samples you can try yourself: Oil and gas, schools, toy sales, car and auto, and yes, picnic
Community Resources
Using Database Images in Tabular BI Semantic Models with Power View, Dan English
Visualizing
Data with Microsoft Crescent
book just out by Brian Larson, Mark Davis, Dan English, and Paul Purinicrosoft MVP Jen Stirrup Talks Trellis Charts And Power View!
Using Database Images in Tabular BI Semantic Models with Power View, Dan English
Deployment Checklist: Reporting Services, Project Crescent, and PowerPivot for SharePoint