Creating Real-Time Dashboards with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010Scott HeimendingerProgram Manager, SharePoint Business IntelligenceMicrosoft Corporation

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What We’ll Cover TodayThe Value of Real-Time dashboardsThe finished product: Twitter AnalyticsConsiderations for choosing a data sourceTips and tricks for your Excel, Reporting Services, and PerformancePoint ServicesHow to make your own Auto-Refresh filterAssembling a Real-Time dashboard!

Real-Time Dashboard Examples

What We’ll Build Today…

• Auto-Refreshing Dashboard• Excel Services• Reporting Services• PerformancePoint Services• Bing Twitter Map

Overall Architecture

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Reporting Services

Excel Services PerformancePoint

Trick #1: Preparing Your Excel Document for Real-Time• Connecting to Analysis Services• Setting the Connection Properties• Publishing the Workbook

DEMO

Trick #2: How To Avoid the Reporting Services Cache• Finding the report URL• Adding the ClearSession parameter

DEMO

Trick #3: Less MDX, More Time Intelligence• Configuring Time Intelligence for Time-Granular Data• Creating a TI Filter

Assembling the Dashboard

DEMO

Filter Extension Architecture

See Creating Filter Extensions (MSDN)

Data Provider

Editor

Metadata

Renderer

Interacts with the filter’s data source

UI for configuring an instance of the filter

Web.config entry

Logic to render the filter on the dashboard

Trick #4: The Auto-Refresh Filter• Configuring the Custom Filter• Making Sure You Have Available Endpoints• Connect and Deploy!

DEMO

RecapLet your reporting needs drive your data source choiceDisable caching on your reportsTake advantage of Time IntelligenceA little JavaScript goes a long way!

Related Content

BIE403: Real-Time Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2BIO04-INT: Deep Dive on Time Intelligence with PerformancePoint ServicesBIO401: Microsoft Excel and Excel Services: Creating Business Centered Applications in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010BIO02-HOL: Developing Reports and Dashboards with PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010PerformancePoint Services BlogMSDN Article: Creating Filter Extensions

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Choosing the Right Data Source for “Real-Time” Data

SQL Relational Analysis Services Power Pivot

Create sophisticated views with TSQLReporting from a wide variety of toolsWrite back-enabled

Calculated measures and named sets supported via MDXCustom hierarchy supportCaching and pre-calculation

Uses familiar syntax for calculated columnsEffortless reporting in ExcelSimple deployment to SharePoint