Project Crescent is Microsoft PowerView–Videos Posted on YouTube

This evening I got a phone call that there were some pretty cool announcements at the PASS (SQL Server Conference) conference this week.  (Sorry.. I don’t do twitter) The details of those announcements hadn’t really made there way onto the web in detail so I grabbed the live stream of the key note and parsed out some highlights i thought people may appreciate.  (More on how to do that in a future post)   I uploaded those videos to youtube so they are accessible if folks are interested in watching them.  Some really exciting stuff coming.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.. dave

Microsoft PowerView - formerly project crescent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5fwphWxNoE

A rich interactive way to explore data from the BI semantic model and then present that data in a highly interactive format integrated with SharePoint.  Multiple Pages in a single report to be able to tell a story with your data, and the ability to export live connected data into Powerpoint.  This is a real game changer technology!  For the first time ever visualize live data in a powerpoint.  For more detail click on the chart and it will drill down to support further analysis.  Can’t wait for release of an updated build with the power point integration but it may be a while as it was only completed "Last Night".

 

Microsoft PowerView "Touch"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vLLAdjGtrU&feature=youtube_gdata

This video showcases what's next for PowerView beyond the release of SQL 2012.  This includes a browser based experience for for IPAD and Andriod and rich touch experiences with windows 8.  This is some really cool stuff that answers the question of how Microsoft and SharePoint based analysis and BI can meet the mobile requirement as we leverage newer device types.

 

Microsoft Data Explorer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFeh3WFX6o&feature=youtube_gdata

Data Explorer is a bit further out into the future but is worth knowing about from a long term perspective  This is a cloud hosted service preview which allows you to mashup or join across a variety of data sources in some new ways.  The demo will merge a sql azure database with local excel data with bing search results with web odata feeds from the Azure marketplace.  After establish the relationships, the data can be analyzed using tools like excel and powerpivot or even resold as a new data source.  This seems to build on concepts we have today such as odata feeds from reporting services, odata feeds from sharepoint, and the ability to mash these up in powerpivot today.  Very exciting and worth following this as it matures.  This will be in azure labs by the end of the year.