Microsoft Business Intelligence Environment

Overview

BI Environment Overview

• Business Intelligence Suite consisting of Office 2010, Sharepoint 2010 and SQL Server 2010.

• Designed to provide easy access to the wealth of information contained in your data.

• “Business Intelligence solutions enable IT departments to proactively empower users with self-service capabilities while retaining the ability to monitor, manage, and govern the data and solutions that users create.”

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BI Environment Overview

• Institutional Analysis and Planning’s (IAP) implementation of the BI Suite

• Report User Experience– Demonstration of the reporting environment the user

sees and the export functionality

• Cube User Experience– Demonstration of the Cube environment

• Developer Experience– Construction and Structure of cubes

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Report User Experience

• What does the end user see?• What are Reports?

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Cube User Experience

• Accessed through Excel pivot tables• Leverages already existing user

experience in Excel• Drill through for detailed comparisons• Excel does not directly access the data,

data is provided through Analysis Services.

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Cube Demo

• How many students are in a specific class?

• What was the average grade of the class?• How many students were in housing and

were their grades different?

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Developer Experiences

• Reports• Cubes• Database structure

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Report Creation

• Database connection (Data Source)• Queries on the Data Source (Datasets)• Tables of data like pivot tables (Tablix)• Charts• Report Parameters• Reuse of created content (Report Parts

and Sub-reports)

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Cube Creation

• Dimensions, Measures, Calculated Measures, KPIs

• Relationships between measures and dimensions

• How the cube deals with many-to-many joins

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SQL Server Integration Services

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SSIS

SSIS in BI Developer Studio

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Database Structure

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• Snowflake Schema – Lessons Learned• Fact and Dimension tables• Foreign Key Constraints for Data Integrity

Database Structure

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Server Architecture

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Shared SQL Server

Web Reporting and Analysis Services

Campus Web and Excel Access

Campus Web and Excel Access

Oracle Server

SSIS

SSAS

SSRS

Questions?

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