Empowering End Users with Report Models John Racer Empowering End Users with Report Models

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Survey Are you using SSRS in Production? Have you worked with Report Models or other ‘semantic’ tools for reporting?

Self-Service Business Intelligence

What is a Report Model A Report Model is the metadata or ‘semantic’ layer created to abstract access to database schema for simplified end user reporting.

Building Model Based Reports BIDS Report Builder 1.0 (2005/8) Report Builder 2.0 (2008) Report Builder 3.0 (2008R2)

High Level Components Report Models (.smdl) Data Source Views (.dsv) Data Sources (.ds)

Report Model Objects Entities Attributes Roles Expressions Folders Perspectives

How to Create a Model Report Manager Model Designer (BIDS) SharePoint Server

Report Manager Demo

Model Designer Demo

Report Builder 3.0 Demo

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