What’s new in SSRS 2016

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Agenda New Features Overview Finally!!!! Demos Focus on New Data Types

What’s new First significant update since SQL 2008 R2 (Roughly 6 Years) Acquisition of Datazen (~April 2015) is a major part of this release

What’s New New Web Portal Updated Report Builder New Report Types (Datazen) Dashboard/Mobile KPI Power BI Integration(ish)

Report Types 1. Paginated Reports (Classic Reports) -Report Builder or SSDT Dashboard/Mobile Reports -Mobile Report Publisher 3. KPIs -Web Portal

Report Builder (Paginated Reports) Higher DPI in IDE Modernized Look Data Sets for Mobile Report are also built here

Paginated Reports New Charts and Gauges Custom Parameters Pane PowerPoint export option

New Web Portal Modern Look and Feel HTML5 Support Print without ActiveX Control Custom Branding

KPIs Created in SSRS Portal Uses Datasets deployed to SSRS Portal Trend set included with Visual Drill through capability

Mobile Report Publisher Dashboard Development “Design First” Approach Dashboards can be laid out first, and then data modelled to support dashboard Dashboards use Datasets deployed on SSRS Server Dashboards are easily deployed to Mobile Publisher is free to download Can run locally for free using local excel data source To share Dashboards the dashboard files would need to be emailed with excel source file Connect Publisher to Datazen Enterprise Server to connect to other sources and collaborate

Mobile Mobile reports integrated into PowerBI App Available on Microsoft, Apple, Android Required exposing SSRS Web server to web Work with your Infrastructure team (or check out Azure VMs with Azure SQL DBs)

Microsoft BI Integration? Power BI "Integration" Deploy Report Charts and Graphs to Power BI Dashboards Save Excel and Power BI Desktop files in SSRS (not much integration yet)

Datazen Sources Documentation: http://www.datazen.com/docs Blog: http://christopherfinlan.com What’s new SSRS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms170438.aspx