Power View

Just as the server version of PowerPivot runs within SharePoint but is actually shipped with SQL Server, so too is a new BI component called Power View. Power View is an ad hoc reporting, analysis, and data visualization tool for BISM data sources. Power View uses Silverlight to render compelling, animated visualizations, and runs within SharePoint, utilizing its document-based security model. Many advanced properties that can be configured in BISM data sources are directly recognized by Power View.

A Power View report, in full screen mode, is shown in Figure 14-10. The report contains a single page, with a column chart at the top and a bubble chart at the bottom. Notice the selections in the bubble chart are filtering the data shown ...

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