sql pass business intelligence chapter bi and data viz in sql server 2012

Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation 2012

Jen StirrupMVPCopperBlue Consulting

Who am I?

Jen Stirrup Specialist in Data VisualisationMicrosoft SQL Server MVPTwitter: @JenStirrup @thinkcopperblueE: jen.stirrup@CopperBlueConsulting.comW: www.copperblueconsulting.comW: www.jenstirrup.com

‘Traditional’ BIUpsides Downsides

Flexible:Can model anything

Powerful:Enterprise scale

Secure:Fine grain control

Near real time:15 minute refresh

Control:Process & versions

Rigid:hard to change

Hard:MDX isn’t easy

Familiar:Lots of expertise

Downsides

End User BIUpsides

Easy to Use:users get it

Mashups:make your own

Agile:Deploy in a click or 2

Collaboration:Between IW & IT

Chaos:IT can’t manage it

Refresh:Could be a day out

No Downsides

End User BI in SQL Server 2012Upsides

Easy to Use:users get it

Mashups:make your own

Agile:Deploy in a click or 2

Collaboration:Between IW & IT

Secure:Fine grain control

Control:Process & versions

Powerful:Enterprise scale

Cool:End user analysis

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Design tools..

BI Development Studio

Report Builder

Power View

PowerPivot

Data Mining for Excel

SQL Server

Dashboard Designer

Excel Services

Visio services

SharePoint Chart

SharePoint

Excel

Access

Visio

Office

What is PowerPivot?

PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI

solutions using familiar Excel Interface

What is PowerPivot?

Subversive: Business Intelligence in the hands of users, not 18-month plus projectsWhat is PowerPivot?Two types:

Free Excel add-inSharepoint presentation layer

Strength: Vertipaq column-oriented data storeScaleability

What is PowerPivot?

Diagram View

Advanced Tab – Perspectives

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Demo

What is Power View

Power View is an interactive data exploration and visual

presentation experience.

Architecture

RS Shared Service

SharePoint Farm

Crescent client

App Server

Data sources

Analysis Services SP Integrated

PowerPivotSystem Service

AS Server

Web Front End

SSRS Addin for SharePoint

PowerPivotWeb Service

Excel PowerPivot Model

SQL Server BIDSBISM Model

Architecture

Crescent only works from Tabular BISM for now

Crescent and alerting depend on SharePoint

Silverlight based

Yet….

Demo

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Trellis Chart

Motion Chart

Parallel Co-Ordinates

Pie Charts

Power View

Efficiency - Power View does not get all of the information in one goIf the underlying data isn’t joined together, then the ‘missing’ tables are greyed out.Web client based on a tabular model in SharePoint Server 2010

PowerPivot workbookSSAS Tabular model

Power View

Highlight and filter dataSort dataBased on Dimensions and MeasuresAutomatically synchronises axis

Reporting Services

Sharepoint Integrated mode is, well, more integrated!

Rsreportserver.configReport Server logs now stored in Sharepoint hiveSOAP API is no longer supported

Reporting Services Design Future

White Space – use ConsumeContainerWhitespace

Rendered page by page

Nested Sub Report preserved in Excel

Questions

Get in touch!

Jen Stirrup Specialist in Data VisualisationMicrosoft SQL Server MVPTwitter: @JenStirrup @thinkcopperblueE: jen.stirrup@CopperBlueConsulting.comW: www.copperblueconsulting.comW: www.jenstirrup.com