Agenda• What is BI and its Uses?

• Where’s the Data?

• Presenting Data Using MS BI Tools

• Strategy for MS BI Tools Use

• Platform Architecture

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About Me•Consultant with Horizons Consulting. We consult on SharePoint, Exchange and OCS in the Midwest

•Working in IT for over 13 years

•SharePoint Consultant for two years

•Live in St. Louis

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What is BI?•Any information that pertains to the history, current status or future projections of a business organization

•Systems that provide directed background data and reporting tools to support and improve the decision-making process

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Gathering Data

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Gathering Data

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Excel and PowerPivot

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Excel •End User Analysis Tool of Choice

•End User BI Begins Here

•Viewing, manipulating, performing analysis on intelligence or for creating reports

•Used for:

• Analysis, filtering and presentation of locally stored data

• Interacting with analytic models from multiple sources

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Excel•What‘s New

• Multi-user editing

• Slicers

• New Development Support

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PowerPivot•Extension to Excel that adds support for large-scale data

•Codename was Gemini

•Used to:

• Explore and perform calculations on large data sets for ad-hoc reports and analysis

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Excel Services

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Excel Services•Server-side browser rendering of Excel spreadsheets

•Used for:

• Sharing Excel content across the organization while maintaining publishing control

• Generate a model to be broadly used(ex: mortgage calculator)

• Protect the intellectual property(formulas, etc.) contained within the spreadsheet S

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Excel Services•What’s New

• Support for more Excel functionality

• Interactive Pivot Tables

• Default Trusted Locations

• Delegate Service Application

• PowerShell

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Visio Services

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Visio Services•Server-side browser rendering of Visio diagrams

•Used to:

• Build a visual representation of your business structures that are bound to data

• Represent processes, systems, and resources

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PerformancePoint

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PerformancePoint•Performance management service with tools to monitor and analyze business data.

•IT easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs

•Used for:

• Creating dashboard, scorecards, and KPIs

• Providing drill-down analysis

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PerformancePoint•What’s New

• Decomposition Tree

• Improved scorecards

• Time Intelligence filtering improved

• Connectable web parts

• KPI Details report

• Enhanced analytic reports

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Reporting Services

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Reporting Services•Reports, Reports, Reports

•Can be published to SharePoint

•Used to:

• Deliver reports that publish at regular intervals and on-demand

• Deliver reports with well established requirements

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Reporting Services•What’s New (R2)

• Can install add-in before SharePoint 2010 & one step integration

• Local Mode Report Viewing

• SSRS is reporting engine for Access Services reporting

• Native support for Reporting on SharePoint Lists

• Performance improvements

• ULS Logging

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Microsoft’s 2010 Insights Strategy