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4 Agenda Microsoft BI Vision Microsoft BI Solution Stack Empower Your Users with Self-Service Reporting Self-Service Reporting with Reporting Services and Report Builder 3.0 Report Builder 3.0 Demo

5 Microsoft BI Vision Complete and integrated BI and Performance Management offering Agile products that adapt to how your need the information Built on a trusted part of your IT backbone

6 BUSINESS COLLABORATION PLATFORM DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE The Microsoft BI Solution Stack

7 BUSINESS COLLABORATION PLATFORM DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE

8 The Microsoft BI Solution Stack BUSINESS COLLABORATION PLATFORM DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE

9 Empower Your Users with Self-Service Reporting

10 Report Builder 3.0 Self-service report authoring Report Part Gallery Lookup functions Microsoft Office Interface Rich Visualizations Highly flexible layout options Powerful Query Designer Relational Multi-dimensional New data sources: SQL Azure PowerPivot SharePoint lists

11 Stepped or Block grouping Pivot Custom Subtotals Non-pivot columns Nested controls Multi-Pivot Custom Headers Highly flexible layout options

12 Tablix Visualisations: Sparklines and Data Bars Sparklines “Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Tufte Automatic axis alignment Data Bars Usually depicts a single value in a cell Min and Max automatically determined SparklinesSparklines Data Bars

13 Tablix Visualization: Indicators Icons used for value, goal or a trend Colors, Icon and Size based on data Automatic support for comparing siblings

14 Extensive Visualisations

15 Map Features Support for SQL Spatial data Integration with Bing Maps tiles Multiple Map layers – Point, Line, Polygon, Tile

16 Map Components Point Layer Tile Layer Polygon Layer

17 Another Map Example

18 Capitalise on Existing Reports Reusing common report elements helps to accelerate report creation, cut down costs, and increase end-user adoption. Share & Collaborate Report Part Gallery

19 Sharing and Re-use Report Parts Shared Datasets Shared Datasource Heterogeneous Data

20 PowerPivot as a Data Source

21 Enhanced Report Viewer and Report Manager Experience Facelift AJAX enabled Report Viewer Better workflow via context menus Access to properties without rendering Scroll position is maintained across interactivity New Test Connection button

22 Report Builder 3.0

23 Other Enhancements of Note Bottom-to-top text rotation Renderer dependent layout and formatting Page naming & Page break enhancements Read-Write report variables Aggregates of Aggregates - Avg(Sum(Sales,”Month”),”Year”) Pagination & Rendering diagnostics New edit Session Infrastructure – everything is cached

24 SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services - Summary Faster report creation New visualisations Easier management Better control of content

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26 Additional Information SQL Server Reporting Services Team Blog Sean Boon (SSRS PM)’s Blog Ed Katibah – SQL Spatial Ordnance Survey OpenData Microsoft Solutions for BI Microsoft Solutions for BI – Rafal Lukawiecki

27 Map Links Shape2SQL Enables loading shp files into SQL Server Additional Spatial Functions ngTitle=Home Free shapefiles etc. &task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 Spatial Ed Blog

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