Connect to Excel BVQ@sva.de BVQ Analysis What is the target of the excel connection • The target of the Excel connection is to create excel worksheets which can be directly connected to BVQ data • You just have to press one button to update the worksheet with the newest data. It is also possible to auto update excel worksheets on opening. • Excel worksheets are database independent because they only use general rules and BVQ favorites • The complete power of excel can be used to optimize the representation of the data BVQ Analysis Connect Excel to BVQ Find the right data source Start with opening the BVQ Server with http://localhost Please use IE or Chrome or Firefox for this (Edge will not work) Open Data sources Select the right favorite and copy string with „green button“ BVQ Analysis Connect Excel to BVQ Retrieve the data Start Excel and open “Get data from other sources from the web” (German screenshot) BVQ Analysis Connect Excel to BVQ Authentication Problem? If Excel its not authenticated to BVQ then please follow these steps BVQ Analysis Data is now available in Excel The data is now available in Excel ad could be used right away. Nevertheless is is worth to improve the representation of the data using power query BVQ Analysis Look for Excel power query for more details https://www.excelcampus.com/powerquery/power-query-overview/ BVQ Analysis Power Query – only some tips This is the raw format of the table without any modifications We will delete, rename and transform some columns in this example BVQ Analysis Delete Columns Select columns to be deleted and use right mouse button to delete them. In this example all hidden colums which you can reach with the horizontal slider are also marked for deletion You find the delete command here! You can easily undo by just deleting the command from the list BVQ Analysis Hide meaningless data You might find data which is meaningless – you can just hide the data from being displayed using columns filters. This will add an action into the activity field which will always be replayed when the query is called. BVQ Analysis Transform data Capacity data is always presented in Bytes – if you want to see TiB you have to divide this data by 1024^4 Use integer division to come to the right result. Repeat this step for all capacity columns First mark the column! BVQ Analysis How to calculate the 1024^4? Use the windows calculator – enter 1024 and press X² two times Ore use the scientific calculator to calculate 1024^4 directly Use Ctrl+V to copy the number BVQ Analysis Rename columns You can rename columns with a simple double click on the header BVQ Analysis Store the table and one additional tip Finsh the work in the editor with „close and load“ If data types are not displayed right then select columns and start a detect datatype BVQ Analysis Data is now available in Excel – use Excel mechanisms to brush it up BVQ Analysis Some Excel possibilities to work on the data Add units Bar charts in cells And use diagrams BVQ Analysis One additional Tipp for Excel • Open Table, external .. And check that keep cell formating is set BVQ Analysis If you are interested in BVQ or an Performance Analysis with BVQ then please contact bvq@sva.de BVQ is a product from SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH BVQ Analysis
