BI Development By Sam Nasr, MCAD, MCT, MCTS Nasr Information Systems February 5, 2011
Agenda Housekeeping/Introduction Presentation Q&A Evaluations
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Introduction Sam Nasr Independent Software Consultant Nasr Information Systems Software developer since 1995 MCAD, MCT, MCTS(WSS/MOSS) President - Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group President – Cleveland WPF User Group INETA Mentor for Ohio INETA Community Champ
System Requirements 32-bit or 64-bit OS (requirements vary) Windows XP Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 CPU Recommended: 2.0 GHz or faster RAM: 1 GB minimum 4 GB recommended
Demo Environment Intel core Duo CPU 2.40 GHz 4GB RAM 500 GB HD Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (64-bit) SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) / Windows Server 2008 Implemented using “Shrink volume…”
Audience Poll How many developers? How many DBA’s aspiring to be developers?.Net Expertise (Jr vs. Sr.) ?
New BI Features Scalable Data Warehousing Master Data Services StreamInsight - Complex Event Processing Reporting Services Enhancements PowerPivot
BI with Office 2010 Can use Excel 2010 and PowerPivot (free download) before you deploy SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. With SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services, you can enable PowerPivot within SharePoint to manage PowerPivot workbooks more efficiently.PowerPivot Can enable integration with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services using another free download to provide rich reporting features to Information Workers with SharePoint 2010.enable integration with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
New RS Features New Data Sources Expression Language Improvement Layout Control Data Visualization Reusability Report Builder 3.0 Report Access and Management SharePoint Integration
New Data Sources SharePoint List SQL Azure SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint (via URL from SSAS)
Exp Language Improvements Lookup MultiLookup LookupSet Aggregation RenderFormat Global variables Read/Write variables
Reusability Shared Datasets Cache Refresh Report Parts
Report Builder 3.0 v1.0 – SQL Server 2005 v2.0 – SQL Server 2008 V3.0 – SQL Server 2008 R2 Edit Sessions Report Part Gallery
Access and Management Report Manager Improvements Report Viewer Improvements Improved Browser Support RDL Sandboxing Atom Data Feed
SharePoint Integration Improved installation and configuration RS Utility Scripting SharePoint lists as data sources SharePoint unified logging
Demo Report Builder
Layout Control Pagination Properties Data Synchronization Text Box Orientation
Data Synchronization (Before)
Data Synchronization (After)
Text Box Orientation
Data Visualization Data Bars Sparklines Indicators Maps
Demo Data Visualization
Conclusion Let’s recap…
References SQL Server 2008 R2 – Home Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 AdventureWorks 2008 R2 Sample Database
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