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Brad Gall Senior Consultant

OM 3 About Me SQL, SharePoint, MS BI for over 10 years Speak at user groups and webinars Reside in Cincinnati, OH (Go Reds)

OM 4 Agenda Product Overview Datazen Publisher Datazen Enterprise Server Control Panel Datazen Viewers

OM DATAZEN Overview

OM 6 Datazen Overview  Dashboard Reporting Tool  Recently Purchased by Microsoft  On-premises compliment to cloud based Power BI  Mobile first Design Strategy

OM 7 Datazen Sources  Download Link: us/download/details.aspx?id=48112http:// us/download/details.aspx?id=48112 Don’t use download link from Datazen Site (as of yesterday)  Documentation:  Formerly

OM 8 Datazen Applications  Datazen Publisher  Windows 8 App (Windows 7 publisher in preview)  Datazen Enterprise Server  Windows Server with web interface  Control Panel  Datazen Viewer  Mobile App (IOS, Android, Windows Phone)  Windows application or web site

OM DATAZEN Publisher

OM 10 Datazen Publisher  Used to Create Dashboards  Free to download on Windows App Store  Windows 7 preview app available on Microsoft.com  Free to use with local excel data source  Dashboard files need to be ed with excel source file to share  Datazen Enterprise Server  provides collaboration and additional data sources

OM 11 Datazen Publisher Designer  “Design First” Development Methodology  User friendly design interface  No code after datasets are available  Drag and Drop Development Interface  Creates visually interactive reports  Touch Friendly interface  Drop down filters  Drill through reports

OM Demo

OM DATAZEN Enterprise Server

OM 14 Datazen Enterprise Server Free for SQL Enterprise Customers “As of today, SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers with version 2008 or later and Software Assurance are entitled to download the Datazen Server software at no additional cost.” From Windows Server 2008 R2 or later Support Physical, Virtual, or Azure VM Servers

OM 15 4 Major Datazen Server Features 1.Core Service 2.Data Acquisition Service 3.Rendering Service 4.Web Application Control Panel Viewer Web API

OM 16 Hardware  Single Server  Recommended for supporting up to 500 registered users (assuming peak concurrent user load of 50 concurrent users)  Scale out (Multiple Servers)  Web Applications and/or Data Acquisition scale out  Requires Caching Architecture  Memcached, Redis, or Azure Cache

OM 17 Core Service Up to ~7500 users CPU: 8 cores* RAM: 16GB Disk Space: 250Gb or more (*minimal real time data access) Web Applications Up to ~650 users: CPU: 4 cores* RAM: 16GB Disk Space: 5Gb Hardware

OM 18 Sites and URLs Certs and Ports setup via IIS Manager Control Panel Viewer

OM 19 Datazen Enterprise Infrastructure

OM Install Demo

OM DATAZEN Control Panel (Server Admin)

OM 22 Getting Started Initial User Setup Control Panel

OM 23 Users Initial Users Admin Guest Server Users Must create at least 1 Server User Hub Owner Cannot be Admin (or guest) AD Authentication Recommended BI Hub Users User Groups per BI Hub Permissions Granted by User Groups

OM 24 Server Administration Branding You can create your own Branding Package and upload Well documented image specifications Templates Customize the s for Invites or Password Resets

OM 25 Server Administration (cont.) Backups Backups of the Datazen Content (users, Dashboards, etc) can be scheduled through the Control Panel Log Viewer Can be viewed in Control Panel Also log files in Install Directory for each Datazen Feature

OM Datazen Server Demo

OM DATAZEN Control Panel (BI Hubs)

OM 28 Content Hierarchy  BI Hub (Dashboard Hub)  KPI Groups  KPIs  Dashboard Groups  Dashboards (*created with Datazen Publisher)  Data Sources  Data Views Permissions controllable at various levels Users can belong to multiple BI Hubs

OM 29 KPIs  KPI groups are created with a data connection  KPIs are created and managed in the CP  KPIs can be related to Dashboards

OM 30 Dashboards  Dashboards are grouped in Dashboard Groups  Dashboard Groups are created in CP or Publisher  Access is controlled at the Dashboard Group Level  Dashboards are created and edited in Datazen Publisher  Can be managed (renamed, deleted, etc) in CP

OM 31 Data Sources and Data Views Data Connections are created and managed in CP Many common out-of-the box data providers Can also create custom data providers Data views are added to Data Connections Tabular Data Sets Support up to 100,000 rows Currently no query designer (MDX improvements in latest Version) Many caching options for Data Views Client users do not require access to underlying data Data Model: “Design First” Development Approach

OM 32 Data Caching Settings Real Time  Retrieved from the data source by Core Service every time Dashboard is run Cached  Retrieved by the Data Acquisition Service on specified Schedule Client Side Caching  Provides Offline Viewing (Mobile) Personalized  Username is passed as parameter to Data View Parameterized  Parameters are configured in Data View and connected to interactive elements in Dashboards

OM Control Panel Demo BI Hub

OM DATAZEN Report Viewers

OM 35 Report Viewers Applications for Major Mobile OS Apple, Android, Windows Phone Windows Viewer Application Web based Report Viewer Can be imbedded in Custom Applications SharePoint 2013 with iframe on web part page

OM Report Viewer Demo

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38 Datazen Sources  Download Link: us/download/details.aspx?id= us/download/details.aspx?id=48112 Don’t use download link from Datazen Site (as of yesterday)  Documentation:  Blog:  Me: