SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence

Ciprian Jichici

General Manager Genisoft Microsoft Regional Director Romania

Agenda

• Review: Key S+S Data Platform Requirements• SQL Server 2008 R2: The Data Platform for S+S• Reporting Services• Excel 2010• SharePoint Insights

Review: Key S+S Data Platform Requirements

• Comprehensive

• Flexible• Global

Storage and Search

• Responsive• Available• Secure• Manageable

Federation

• Coordination• Consolidation• Transformation• Synchronization

Composition

• Monitor• Analyze• Plan• Collaborate

Insight

• On client• On premise• Partner-hosted• Microsoft-hosted

Delivery

• Productive• Interoperable• Supports key standards

Data Programmability

SQL Server 2008 R2: The Data Platform for S+S

Database Engine

Relational Data

Management

Replication

Full Text Search

Integration Services

ETL Processing

Data Profiling

StreamInsight*

Complex Event

Processing

Analysis Services

Classic OLAP Data

Management

Data Mining

PowerPivot* Self Service

Analytics

Reporting Services

Managed Reporting

Self Service Reporting

Embedded Reporting

Master Data Services*

Master Data Managemen

t

* New offering

SQL Server 2008 R2: Storage and Search

• New application scenario for SQL Server• Process high volumes of event stream data with

low latency• Compliments existing solutions

Complex Event Processing (CEP)

• Integrated development platform for CEP applications

• Modular, provider-based architecture• Input adapters read event streams• Event models support diverse patterns of

events• Runtime engine hosts standing LINQ queries

built in .NET• Output adapters transmit results

Introducing StreamInsight

SQL Server 2008 R2: Insight and Collaboration

• Reporting Services Improvements• Design reports from parts published in report gallery• Enhanced data visualization, including maps and location

information• Analyze report data via ATOM• Improved VS 2010 ReportViewer control for embedded

reporting

Integrated Capabilities

• Introducing PowerPivot for Excel 2010• New in-memory analytics engine• Import and relate data from multiple sources, including ATOM• Work with large data sets with lightning speed• Perform powerful multi-dimensional analysis using Excel

techniques• Visualize data using enhanced Excel 2010 PivotTables /

PivotCharts• Introducing SharePoint 2010 Insights

• PowerPivot server integration for sharing / collaboration / governance

• Excel Services integration with Analysis Services / PowerPivot• Improved Reporting Services integration• Integrated PerformancePoint Services scorecards and

dashboards

Familiar Microsoft Office Tools

Reporting Services

• What's New in Report Authoring• What's New in Report Access• What's New for Administration• What's New for Developers

What's New in Report Authoring

• Expression Language• Layout Features• Data Visualization• Shared Components• ATOM Data Feeds• SharePoint Lists• Report Builder 3.0

Expression Language

• Lookup functions

• Aggregation of aggregations

• Conditional expressions by render format

• Overall page count

• Read/write report variable

=Lookup(<Field1_Key>, <Field2_Key>, <Field_Return>, "Dataset2")

=Avg(Sum(Fields!SalesAmount.Value,"EnglishMonthName"), "CalendarYear")

=Variables!MyVariable.SetValue(Now())

Layout Features

• Pagination

• Data alignment

• Text box orientation

Data Visualization

• Data bars• Sparklines• Indicators• Maps

Shared Components

• Shared datasets

• Report parts

• ATOM data feeds

SharePoint Lists

• Data source configuration– Connection type: Microsoft SharePoint List– Connection string: URL of site containing list

• Report Designer support– Report Designer (Business Intelligence Development Studio)– Report Builder 3.0

• SharePoint support– Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and higher– Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007– Office SharePoint Server 2010

• Limitations– Support for one list only– No support for folders in list

Report Builder 3.0

• Dataset caching– Saves dataset automatically for faster rendering for

current edit session– Expires dataset after 2 hours

• Relative references– Supports access to subreports, images, or other reports

as an action target via relative references– Requires save of current report to report server

• Report Part Gallery– Supports search for reusable report parts – Is available only in Report Builder 3.0

Reporting Services

• What's New in Report Authoring• What's New in Report Access• What's New for Administration• What's New for Developers

What's New in Report Access

• Report Manager

• Report Viewer

Reporting Services

• What's New in Report Authoring• What's New in Report Access• What's New for Administration• What's New for Developers

What's New for Administration

• Cache refresh– Replaces need for NULL delivery provider to warm cache– Updates dataset in cache to help reports run faster

• SharePoint integration– Supports alternate access mappings with Reporting

Services– Allows use of RS Utility – Displays Reporting Services calls in the SharePoint

Unified Logging Service

• RDL sandboxing– Isolates access to report server– Supports hosted services environment

Reporting Services

• What's New in Report Authoring• What's New in Report Access• What's New for Administration• What's New for Developers

What's New for Developers

• AJAX ReportViewer control– Customization with JavaScript API– Content update internally using ASP.NET AJAX– Support for AJAX UpdatePanel– Better browser support – IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.5, and

Safari 4.0

• ReportService2010– New management endpoint– Consolidates classes for native or integrated mode– Deprecates ReportService2005 and ReportService2006

• SharePoint user token support– Passes SharePoint user token to data extension– Allows Reporting Services to act in context of authorized user

Exploring Reporting Services Features

Demo

Excel 2010

• Introducing Excel 2010• Exploring the New Reporting Features• Understanding Reporting Enhancements• Demo: Exploring the New Excel 2010 Features

Introducing Excel 2010Data Analysis and

VisualizationUser Experience and Collaboration

Work together...

...across thePC, phone,

and browser...

...to bring

ideas to life.

Hosted Spreadsheetand Programmability

Analyze with Slicer…

Spot trends with Sparklines

Self-service BI with

PowerPivot

Excel Services

Extensible Platform

HighPerformance

Computing

REST APIWeb Services

APIJavaScript OM

64-Bit Excel

Excel 2010

• Introducing Excel 2010• Exploring the New Reporting Features• Understanding Reporting Enhancements• Demo: Exploring the New Excel 2010 Features

Exploring the New Reporting Features

• Slicers• Sparklines• SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel

Slicers

• Visual controls that support quick, easy, interactive filtering

• Position on a worksheet like charts and shapes• Can pass selected value(s) to:

– PivotTables– PivotCharts– CUBE functions

• Can be referenced by multiple items• Can be formatted using styles

Sparklines

• “Intense, simple, word-sized graphics” *• Represent a workbook data range• Types include:

– Line– Column– Win/Loss

• Can be customized with Axis Options and formatted using styles

• Use merged cells to enlarge their appearance* Conceived and described by Edward Tufte, author of Beautiful Evidence

SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel

• Manages compressed storage of, and extremely fast querying and reporting from, large volumes of related tabular data

• Data can be loaded from a variety of data sources• Leverages familiar Excel features• Uses Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) for

sophisticated transformation of data• Supports publication of PowerPivot

reports to SharePoint

Excel 2010

• Introducing Excel 2010• Exploring the New Reporting Features• Understanding Reporting Enhancements• Demo: Exploring the New Excel 2010 Features

Understanding Reporting Enhancements• PivotTable Enhancements• Conditional Formatting Improvements• Chart Improvements• Search Improvements

PivotTable Enhancements

• Named Sets• What-If Analysis• “Show As” calculations• Additional enhancements

PivotTable EnhancementsNamed Sets

• Named, reusable groups of members• Available in OLAP PivotTables only• Can combine members from different hierarchies

(asymmetric reporting)• Defined by:

– Explicit member selection– Custom MDX

PivotTable EnhancementsWhat-If Analysis

• Supports the modification of cell values• Available in OLAP PivotTables only• Updated values can be cached locally or

published to the cube• Uses the Analysis Services write-back capability

supported in Enterprise Edition• Settings can be configured to control the write-

back behavior, including support for custom MDX

PivotTable Enhancements“Show As” Calculations

• Launched from the context of a cell

• Custom calculation options can be configured

PivotTable EnhancementsAdditional Enhancements

• Interaction with slicers• Repeat down labels

• Filtering on calculated members• Visual totals for the PivotTable and sets

Conditional Format Enhancements

• Improved icon selection and configuration– “No Cell Icon” can be used to conditionally hide icons

• Data Bar supports new features:– Bars are drawn proportionally

according to their value– Negative data bars– Richer formatting with fill styles

and borders

Chart Improvements

• User interface enhancements support easier configuration

• Improved parity with earlier versions of Office• Render, load, and save performance has been

significantly increased• Data sizes are now constrained by the available

memory and machine capacity, rather than fixed upper limits

Search Improvements

• Larger data sets can now be more quickly and efficiently filtered

• A search box is available when filtering:– Tables– PivotTables– PivotCharts

• Search text can contain wildcard characters• Filter lists can be accumulated using multiple

searches

Exploring the New Excel 2010 Features

Demo

SharePoint Insights

• Enabling BI with SharePoint Server 2010• Taking a Closer Look at SharePoint Insights

Enabling BI with SharePoint Server 2010• BI Tools Overview• Architecture Overview• Developer Tools

BI Tools Overview

Community BI

Organizational BI

Self-Service & Personal

BI

Excel & PowerPivot Add-in

Visio & Visio ServicesExcel ServicesReport Builder

Chart Web Parts & Status IndicatorsPerformancePoint

ServicesReporting Services

Architecture Overview

INSIGHTS

Chart Web Parts & Status

Indicators

Visio Services

PerformancePoint

Services

Excel Services

Business Connectivity

Services

Developer Tools

Packaging Explorer

Workflow Designer

Web PartDesigner

Import solutions from SharePoint Designer, including Workflow

Extensibility for SharePoint artifacts

Support for SharePoint sandboxed

solutions

SharePoint Insights

• Enabling BI with SharePoint Server 2010• Taking a Closer Look at SharePoint Insights

Taking a Closer Look at SharePoint Insights• Excel Services• Visio Services• PerformancePoint Services• Chart Web Parts & Status Indicators• Business Intelligence Center

Excel Services

Interactive PivotTables

Sparklines for better data visualization

Visio Services

Real-time updates with data connectivity

Real-time visual data

PerformancePoint Services

Visual scorecards integrated with

SharePoint

Detailed KPIs &decomposition tree

Chart Web Parts & Status Lists

Chart Web Part Status List

Business Intelligence Center

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