1. SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting ServicesWhat's New in Reporting Services Erik Veerman Director, Business Intelligence Solid Quality Mentors

2. Agenda New Reporting Services Features Report Builder 3.0 & SharePoint 2010 Integration Geospatial and Map Support

3. 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())

4. Layout Features Pagination Data alignment Text box orientation

5. Data Visualization Data bars Sparklines Indicators Maps

6. Shared Components Shared datasets Report parts

7. ATOM Data Feeds Use Toolbar button in Report Viewer to start export Open ATOMSVC document to import data into PowerPivot table

8. What's New in Report Access Report Manager Report Viewer

9. Report Parts Charts Gauges Images and embedded images Maps Parameters Rectangles Tables Matrices Lists

10. Agenda New Reporting Services Features Report Builder 3.0 & SharePoint 2010 Integration Geospatial and Map Support

11. Comparing the Authoring EnvironmentsReport Builder 3.0 Installs as standalone Windows Forms application with Office-like ribbons Restricts development to a single report Supports all report design features Provides easy access to shared datasets and report parts Provides wizards to facilitate development Table or Matrix Wizard Chart Wizard Map Wizard Targets power user

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Agenda New Reporting Services Features Report Builder 3.0 & SharePoint 2010 Integration Geospatial and Map Support

16. Map OverviewMap Data Region Add map data region from BIDS Toolbox or Report Builder 3.0 ribbon Use Map Wizard or cancel wizard and manually configure map elements

17. Map OverviewExample Titles Legend Viewport Point Layer Tile Layer (Bing Maps) Color Scale Distance Scale

18. Data Sources SQL Server spatial data type Point: Exact location defined as (X,Y) coordinate Line: Connected sequence of points Polygon: Two-dimensional shape having same start and end point Bing map tiles Provides road, aerial, or hybrid view as background for map layers Requires report server configuration to support Bing Maps Web Services ESRI shapefile Complies with Environmental Systems Research Institute spatial data format Contains data in a pair of files defining geometric or geographic shape and attributes for those shapes Tip: You can use multiple data sources in a single map by adding one layer for each data source

19. Data Visualization in Map WizardSpatial Query Marker type Marker sizes Marker color

20. SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services Erik Veerman Director, Business Intelligence Solid Quality Mentors

21. What Is PerformancePoint Services?Product Evolution March 2007 Fall 2006 ProClarity Analytics 6.2 ProClarity Analytics 6.3 ProClarity is not yet fully integrated Business Scorecard Manager 2005 PerformancePoint Server 2007 PerformancePoint Services 2010 Fall 2005 September 2007 April 2010

22. PerformancePoint Services Detailed KPIs & decomposition tree Visual scorecards integrated with SharePoint

23. PPS Element Relationships Comprehensive definitions of these elements will be introduced in the following two topics

24. New Features SharePoint integration Service application SharePoint Lists and Libraries are the element repositories Integration between PPS filters and standard Web Parts IE 7 or greater, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.5 (Mac only) New reporting experiences: Decomposition tree Pie charts KPI Details report Filter element

25. Chart Web Parts & Status Lists Status List Chart Web Part

26. Business Intelligence Center

27. Business Intelligence Center Dashboards Web part pages or PerformancePoint dashboards Data Connections PerformancePoint Data sources, Office Data Connection files, and Universal Data Connection files Documents Other content types, such as Excel workbooks, Reporting Services reports, and more PerformancePoint Content Elements for construction of PerformancePoint scorecards and dashboards

28. Excel 2010 Client & Excel Services Erik Veerman Director, Business Intelligence Solid Quality Mentors

29. Introducing Excel 2010 User Experience and Collaboration Data Analysis and Visualization Hosted Spreadsheet and Programmability Analyze with Slicer… Excel Services Work together... Spot trends with Sparklines Extensible Platform ...across thePC, phone, and browser... REST API Web Services API JavaScript OM Self-service BI with PowerPivot High Performance Computing ...to bring ideas to life. 64-Bit Excel

30. 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

31. 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 of and described by Edward Tufte, author of Beautiful Evidence

32. 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

33. PivotTable Enhancements Named Sets What-If Analysis “Show As” calculations Additional enhancements

34. Excel Services Sparklines for better data visualization Interactive PivotTables

35. SQL Server Data Warehousing:Parallel Data WarehouseFast Track Appliance Erik Veerman Director, Business Intelligence Solid Quality Mentors

36. Microsoft Data Warehousing Vision Enabling everyone to do BI in organizations of any size Highly scalable & available systems at lowest TCO Flexibility and choice through commodity hardware Business agility and alignment through Hub and Spoke Architecture Departmental Reporting Fast Track Fast Track Regional Reporting High Performance HQ Reporting Central EDW Hub ETL Tools

37. SQL Server DW Offerings Scale-Up (SMP) Scale-out (MPP) 0 100GB 1TB 10TB 100TB 1PB+

39. Time consuming

40. Expensive

41. Performance varies

43. Pre-built & tuned h/w + s/w

44. Views entire stack holistically

45. Known performance & scalability

46. Encapsulates best practices

47. Leverages Sequential I/OLower TCO Faster deployment Benefits Better performance Minimised DBA time

50. Indexes

51. Compression

52. SQL Server settings

53. Windows Server settings

56. Parallel Data Warehouse Control Rack DataRack Data Rack/s Control Rack