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Step by step to BI Microsoft Data Analyzer Proclarity Excel 2003/2007/2010 SharePoint Excel services Thinslicer Performance Point Power PivotTRANSCRIPT
SQL Server 2008 for Business IntelligenceUTS Short Course
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C# and .NET (Java not anymore)
TestingAutomated tests
Agile, ScrumCertified Scrum Trainer
Technology aficionado • Silverlight• ASP.NET• Windows Forms
Peter Gfader
Attendance You initial sheet
Hands On Lab You get me to initial sheet
Homework
Certificate At end of 5 sessions If I say if you have completed successfully
Admin Stuff
Course Timetable & Materials
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Events/2010UTSSQL/
Resources
http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Training/UTSSQL/
Course Website
Course OverviewSession
Date Time Topic
1Tuesday14-09-2010
18:00 - 21:00
SSIS and Creating a Data Warehouse
2Tuesday21-09-2010
18:00 - 21:00
OLAP – Creating Cubes and Cube Issues
3Tuesday28-09-2010
18:00 - 21:00 Reporting Services
4 Tuesday05-10-2010
18:00 - 21:00 Alternative Cube Browsers
5Tuesday12-10-2010
18:00 - 21:00
Data Mining
Reporting services
Building reports• Export to which formats?• Adding interactivity with ?
Building ad hoc reports• Tools to create and modify reports?
Processing• Local vs server side?
Report Administration• Creating scheduled reports• Performance - Caching • Security
Recap
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx
1. Three best ones
2. Three bad ones
3. Create report
Top 10 customers (Table)Top 10 products (Table)Top 10 employees (Table)1 chart that shows the top 10 customers1 usage of the gauge control (surprise me)
Homework
SSRS - More on reports
Report processing
Local Server side
More on reports
How to publish reports?
Push
Pull• Web• WPF, Windows Forms
More on reports
The plan
1. Create Data Warehouse
2. Copy data to data warehouse
3. Create OLAP Cubes
4. Create Reports
5. Browse the cube
6. Do some Data Mining Discovering a Relationship that was not obvious Predict future events (e.g. targeting and
forecasting)
Step by step to BI
Alternative cube browsers
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1. Overview Microsoft Data Analyzer Proclarity Excel 2003/2007/2010 Excel services Thinslicer Performance Point Power Pivot
Session 4: Tonight’s Agenda
Microsoft Data Analyzer
• Data analysis software for Microsoft Office XP
• Stand alone app
• Part of Office XP suite
• Not updated beyond version 3.5
Microsoft Data Analyzer
ProClarity (now assimilated by MS)
Drillable Charts e.g. Bar, Line, Pie, Area
Simple selection of data via Hierarchies
Auto-Highlighting for Readability
ProClarity – Selection of Data & Charts
Analyse via the decomposition Tree
ProClarity - Decomposition
Use for showing relative performance & change between Dimensions
ProClarity – Performance Map
ProClarity – Perspective View
Allow for comparison of 2 measures against selected hierarchies
Good for detecting values outside the norm
Statistical Sliders
Views
Briefing Books to share your analysis
ProClarity – Other Features
Connecting to an OLAP cube
General navigation of member information and cube data
Drilling down to details of reporting summaries
Venturing beyond the " X-Y " dimensions, and making the PivotTable Report truly multidimensional
Select formatting options for our Excel 2007 PivotTable Reports.
Excel 2007 - Pivot Table
Pivot Sample
Excel 2007 – Pivot Table - Fields and Drop Zones
Publishes Excel pivot tables onto SharePoint
http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Pages/NZCensus_Excel.aspx
Excel Services
http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Pages/TS_Foodmart.aspx
Bought by Angry Koala in 2008 – www.angrykoala.com.au
Adhoc Cube Browser on the Web
ThinSlicer
ThinSlicer
http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Shared%20Documents/Windows%20Performance%20Monitor/Perfmon.aspx
Microsoft Performance Point
Excel Services (already in 2007)
PowerPivot via Excel 2010 (AKA Gemini)
Reporting Services Integration (already in 2007)
Visio Services 2010 (Strategy Maps)
Access Services
What else is SharePoint 2010 offering?
Put your spreadsheets online
Connect to live data
Auto refresh
Adhoc reporting
Excel Services
Allows you to publish reporting services reports up to SharePoint
Scheduling and exporting to different formats
Interactive drill through
Great for Static Reports
E.g. Monthly Sales
Reporting Services Integration
Publish Visio diagrams into SharePoint
View Visio diagrams through the browser without needing Visio to be installed
Data driven diagrams so you can pull information into your Visio dagrams
For more information see http://siddhumehta.blogspot.com/2010/02/strategy-maps-visio-services-2010.html
Visio Services (Strategy Maps)
Publish Access Databases into SharePoint
Create databases with forms and reports through SharePoint
Browse and edit records on the web
Access Services
“The most important thing about PowerPivot is the ability to share users analysis into SharePoint so that these other users can slice and data form within a browser.” - Andrew Fryer
Addin to Excel 2010
PowerPivot (Excel 2010)
Migration guide
http://www.reportingservicesmigration.com/
Resources - SSRS
SQL Server R2 Licensing
http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/samples/Licensing_SQL_Server_2008.pdf
Data warehousing with SQL Server R2
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/data-warehousing.aspx
SQL Server R2
TechNet Virtual Labs - Hands on Labs
http://technet.microsoft.com/it-it/cc164207(en-us).aspx
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterBusinessIntelligence.aspx
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/betterSoftwareSuggestions/PerformancePoint.aspx
Resources
http://www.powerpivot.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/bi/powerpivot/
Excel - Powerpivot
1. Overview RS Report Builder Data Analyzer Proclarity Excel 2003/2007 Excel Services Thin Slicer Performance Point PowerPivot
Summary
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