Project "Crescent" is a new browser-based Silverlight reporting tool that will replace Report Builder 1.0. It will provide a highly interactive experience for exploring and visualizing data in Tabular BI Semantic Models created with PowerPivot for SharePoint and Analysis Services Tabular projects. Other enhancements include improvements to Integration Services, Master Data Services, new features like Data Quality Services and columnstore indexes, and changes to make Reporting Services integrate better with SharePoint.

1. •
−
•
−
−

2. •
−
−
−
−
•
−
−
−
−
−
−
−

3. RAPID DATA CREDIBLE, SCALABLE ANALYTICS
EXPLORATION & CONSISTENT DATA & DW SOLUTIONS
VISUALIZATION
Familiar data exploration and Consistent view of your data Engine tuning for high-scale
visualization with Project through a single analytics in
“Crescent” BI Semantic Model Analysis Services
Inspire innovation with Ease of integration and Enhanced capabilities for high-
powerful data mash-ups in management with scale data warehousing with
PowerPivot Integration Services and Parallel Data Warehouse
Master Data Services
Greater IT oversight and Comprehensive offerings for
management through Quickly manage, analyze, and Data Warehouses of all sizes
SharePoint cleanse data across sources in
Data Quality Services

4. Bringing Together…
Richness
Simplicity Scalability
PowerPivot + Analysis Services

5. •
•
•

6. Build on the strengths
Embrace the relational
and success of Analysis
data model – well
Services and expand its
understood by
reach to a much
developers and IT Pros
broader user base
Bring together the
relational and Provide flexibility in the
multidimensional platform to suit the
models under a single diverse needs of BI
unified BI platform – applications
best of both worlds!

7. Seamless Transition
Empowered Aligned
My Context Our Context The Org’s Context
BI solution created BI Solution created by BI Solution created by
by user. Context is power user. Context IT, Established
only for user & exists is for a small team & corporate context & is
as document. it’s managed on a reusable, scalable and
server. backed up.
PowerPivot For Excel PowerPivot For SharePoint Analysis Services

8. Existing Existing New
applications applications applications
Based on Unified Every UDM becomes a BI New technology options
Dimensional Model Semantic Model
“Denali”

9. PowerPivot for Excel BI Development Studio
Feels like Visual
Feels like Studio Optimized
One file,
Excel for BI Pros
Save to It’s a project
Rapid SharePoint (business case,
response to budget, dates) Larger data
business volumes
problems Teams building BI
Solutions live
solutions Deployment
for weeks or
Optimized for scripts,
months
Excel power user Source Control, versions
TFS
Personal Team Corporate

11. Third-party Reporting SharePoint
applications Services Excel PowerPivot Insights
Databases LOB Applications Files OData Feeds Cloud Services

12. Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI
PowerPivot for Excel PowerPivot for Analysis Services
SharePoint
Flexibility Richness Scalability

13. Internet Explorer SharePoint
BI Development Studio
Project Juneau
Excel Services
Reporting Services
PowerPiv
xlsx
ot for
Excel Analysis Services
PowerPivot for
SharePoint
(Analysis Services)
Excel
BI Semantic Model
xlsx
Third Party Apps
Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI

14. information
Master Data Services Data Quality Services
Data quality Profiling
Familiar tools Cleansing
Performance Matching
Integration Services Impact Analysis
Easy data loading Lineage tracking
with data sources

15. 15
•
• 11001010
01010010
10011101
•
01100101
001
•
•
•

16. Row store:
…
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
Column store: Pages
Uses VertiPaq
compression

17. •
SELECT region, sum (sales) …
C2 C3 •
C1 C4 C5 C6
•
•

18. SSIS Enhancements

19. Improved
Deployment,
Configuration
and
Enhanced Management
Usability
UI Improvements Improved deployment,
 Helping new users ramp up configuration and
 Increasing ETL developers management of SSIS projects
productivity  SSIS Server
 Shared connection managers  Support for parameters
 Ability to use SSMS for
Key Customer Requests troubleshooting of common SSIS
 Undo issues
 Flexible order of authoring
 Easy to diff package format

20. Enhanced Usability
• Visual Studio 2010 Shell
• Design surface changes – rounded corners!
• Improved annotations
• Undo/Redo!!!!
• SSIS Toolbox
• New icons
• Expression notations on SSIS items
• New – Expression Task
• Variable Scope Change (and ability to move)
• Copy & Paste improvements
• Zoom In/Out feature
• Auto save and recovery
• Package and Project Level Parameters!
• Project Level Connection Managers!
• DFT provides grouping functionality
• New – DQS Cleansing Transform
• New – Resolve References window (DFT) from PDW
• DFT – Source and Destination Assistants
• And even more!

21. Improved Deployment, Configuration and Management
• SSIS Server, not just a service (legacy)
• SSIS Catalog DB – SSISDB
• Project Deployment Model (.ispac)
• Easier Deployment
• Easier Configurations
• Provides Logging & Reporting
• Can reference and execute SSIS from T-SQL!
• Utilize Environments with projects
• Built-in Reporting

22. Data Quality Services (DQS)

23. •
•
•

24. Data Quality Issue Example
Standardization Is the data consistent between System 1: Female, Male,
systems? Unknown
System 2: F, M, U
System 3: 0, 1, 2
Formatting Is there typos, abbreviations, or Street, St., ST
punctuation issues? Avenue, Ave., Ave
Apt No, Apt #, Apt Num
Valid values Are values within acceptable Dates between 1/1/2000 and
ranges (sanity checks)? 12/31/2012
Sales between $1 and $100,000
Completeness Is all of the data available that is Blanks, NULLs, incomplete
needed? addresses, invalid email
addresses, values of all 9’s
Duplicates Does data appear more than once? Dan English, Daniel English, Mr.
English, D English, Danny E.

25. Knowledge
Management
Build Discover / Explore Data / Connect
Integrated Knowledge
Profiling Base
Use
DQ
Projects

26. SSIS Data Flow
Reference
Data
Services
DQS
Server
SSIS Package
Source + DQS Cleansing
Values/Rules Mapping Component Destination
Reference Data
Definition
Microsoft Confidential—Preliminary Information Subject to Change

27. SSRS SharePoint
Integration Enhancements

28. Empower users Increase Productivity Increase efficiency
Proactive Intelligence
• Project “Crescent” • End User Alerting • Enabled as SharePoint
Shared Service
• Highly visual design • Defined from within
experience operational or • Built-in scale-out for RS
ad-hoc reports Service Apps
• Rich metadata-driven
interactivity • Intuitive Alert rules • SharePoint Cross-farm
reporting
• Presentation-ready • Alerts self-managed
at all times through SharePoint • Integrated backup &
recovery, ULS logging,
• XLS/Word 2007/2010 PowerShell etc.
Managed Self Service BI – Corporate BI

29. •
−
−
−
−
−
−
−
•
−
−
−
−
−
•

30. Project “Crescent”

31. Crescent is an interactive
data exploration and visual
presentation experience.

32. Highly Visual Design Experience
• Interactive, web-based authoring, and sharing of information
• Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns
• Powerful data layout with banding, callout, and small multiples
visualizations
Rich metadata-driven interactivity
• Fully integrated with PowerPivot and Tabular SSAS
• Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying
• Zero configuration highlighting and filtering
• Animated trending and comparisons
Presentation-ready at all times
• Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into
persuasive information
• Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint
• Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom session

35. 10. Integrations Services (SSIS) Enhancements – lots of usability enhancements have been made such as ability to undo and redo, a new SSIS Toolbox,
grouping capabilities in the data flow, simplified data viewer configurations, new data flow source and destination assistants (wizards), and improved data
flow designer experience with mapping and resolving errors. Other modifications were made so it is easier to compare and merge packages, and you have
the ability to view object dependencies in SQL Server Management Studio.
9. Master Data Services (MDS) Enhancements – improvements in the user interface (UI), performance improvements with the UI, ability to incorporate
data quality services into the workflow process, and a new Excel add-in client that will provide the ability to edit Master Data and publish it back to MDS and
even create a model in Excel.
8. New Feature: Data Quality Services (DQS) – this is a new product offering that has been added that allows you to create a knowledge base repository
of data related items that can then be used to incorporate and use for data cleansing. This will allow you to profile, improve the quality, and monitor the on-
going health of your data. This new feature can be added into your Integration Services and Master Data Services processes.
7. New Feature: Database Columnstore Indexes – the VertiPaq engine first introduced with PowerPivot has now been brought to the database engine
and is available to use to create indexes on columns in the relational store. This will provide a wonderful opportunity for users leveraging ROLAP technology
to great improve the performance on the query processing. This index groups and stores the data for each column versus the row. This can alleviate having
to use pre-aggregated data and summary tables.
6. New Feature: Reporting Services (SSRS) Shared SharePoint Service – the SSRS integration with SharePoint will now be setup as a Shared
SharePoint service just like Excel Services and PerformancePoint Services. Everything will be managed completely through SharePoint and there will no
longer be a separate SSRS Windows Service running.
5. New Feature: Reporting Services (SSRS) Data Alerts – new self-service data-driven alerting capabilities have been added to allow end-users the
ability to setup and define alerts using existing Reporting Services reports. These alerts can be setup based on defined criteria and scheduled as needed to
provide a mechanism to notify the user without them having to manually execute the report on their own. This new feature is only provided in the SharePoint
Integrated mode of Reporting Services.
4. PowerPivot Enhancements – with version 2 of PowerPivot there have been some major additions which include features like a new diagram view of the
model, hierarchy and KPI support, ability to sort a column based on another column, multiple relationships (like role playing dimensions kind of – can access
through DAX), image support, add values to rows and columns (very cool – flexibility provided in the PivotTables), reporting properties (will be leveraged by
‘Crescent’), ability to format measures, field list sorted alphabetically (instead of how they were added to the model), and most importantly…show details
(drillthrough support – this will be fabulous when using with PerformancePoint).
3. DAX Enhancements – new functions have been added to help simplify and provide additional capabilities like DISTINCTCOUNT, Rank, Standard
Deviation, TOPN, table functions, LOOKUPVALUE, parent-child relationship functions, SWITCH, and more.
2. New Feature: Analysis Services Tabular – the PowerPivot experience in Excel has also been added into the Business Intelligence Development Studio
(BIDS) introducing a new Tabular project option. This will allow you to take the PowerPivot model and convert it to a Tabular project and deploy the solution
at the server level for a corporate/enterprise level solution that will scale and handle large volumes of data. With the Tabular models you will have the same
options as in PowerPivot along with additional capabilities like partitioning, incremental updates, and role based security.
1. New Feature: Project ’Crescent’ – this is a brand new browser based Silverlight report authoring tool. This new tool will replace the Report Builder 1.0
application that leveraged Report Models and will be able to leverage the Tabular BI Semantic Models (BISM) that you will be able to create with PowerPivot
for SharePoint and Analysis Services Tabular projects. This will be a highly interactive reporting experience that will allow you to access, explore, and
visualize your data and have fun doing so in the process. This tool will enhance the existing Microsoft BI toolset and provide a very friendly self-service
reporting solution for end-users to leverage. The new feature is only provided in the SharePoint Integrated mode of Reporting Services.

36. High Scalability & Security & Beyond Web & Business EIM
Availability Performance Manageability Relational Breadth Intelligence
SQL Server Up to 15K User-Defined Microsoft PHP Driver Unified Semantic SSIS Server
AlwaysOn Partitions/Table Server Roles Project Model
“Juneau”
Reliable, Column Store Contained Win32 Access Local DB Crescent Data Quality
Integrated Index, “Apollo” Database to Database files Runtime
Failover Detection Authentication
Application Database FileTable UTF-16 In-memory BI for Enhanced MDS
Fast
Centric Failover Replay corporate
FILESTEAM
Multiple Fast Full-Text Audit Semantic Paging for Alerting MDS add-in for
Secondaries Search Enhancements Search Platform result sets Excel
Readable Fast Spatial Management Full Globe JDBC 4.0 driver Sysprep for AS
Secondaries Performance Pack for High Spatial Support
Availability
Online DBC & OLTP Backup DAC Support for PowerPivot
Operations Appliances/RAs Secondaries Enhancements ARM Enhancements
processors
HA for Default Schema ODBC for Linux Reporting as
StreamInsight for Windows SharePoint
Group Shared Service
Windows Server Active Directory Hybrid
Core Support w/ SharePoint Applications
for SSRS with SQL Azure

37. Questions?