Sanjay Soni BI Platforms Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Curtis Chernosky CBI Solution Manager Avanade Inc.

Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions

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Once upon a time … there was an IT department and various business groups

There were Silos of unorganized BI Individual IT departments were creating most of the reports for business Delivery was slow End users had to go to different report catalogs/shares

11 Somebody in IT department had a great idea… CBI was created with a single enterprise Report catalog Hosted BI solution with Reporting Services, PPS etc. A SharePoint based BI portal

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Welcome to CBI … A centrally hosted, secure, and personalizable BI Portal destination with one enterprise report catalog for scorecards, reports & business analysis Externally available for Microsoft customers

16 Step 1 Power users or BI Devs create report Step 2 Reports published to report server Step 3 Report Published to Report Catalog Step 4 End users view in the portal Report publishing process

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Silos of unorganized BI assets HR S&M Finance IT

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9 9 One central & secure destination for all BI analytics Improved user productivity through reduced time to find desired information Improved user experience through consistent UI Centralized and robust security architecture Reduced maintenance costs Reduction in shadow application development Integrated Microsoft BI capabilities Reduced implementation times with secure hosted solution Enables business users to manage and control access How to justify costs?

Catalog Client web svc Catalog AD Bridge svc Microsoft Office SharePoint Servers Metadata Store (MOSS, PAS, SRS, PPS, Excel Authorization Customer Data Sources EXTRANET CORPNET Domain Account (NTLM) Network Services (Kerberos) Catalog Client AD Authentication Sql Server With Failover cluster IIS Server NLB Cluster Corpnet Users Extranet Users LDAP Queries MSR Catalog Admin Web SVC Authorization Role Based Permissions(RBP) Extranet AD Corpnet AD Power Users (Via Catalog Admintool) Catalog AD Provider SVC INTERNET 8 8

7 7 Step 1 Power users or BI Devs Create Report Step 2 Reports Published to Report Server Step 3 Report Published to Report Catalog Step 4 End users View in the Portal CBI Catalog is URL based and hence even third party BI tool reports can be added to it

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3 3 3 Analyze data with Excel Explore data in SharePoint Build reports with Report Builder Build reports with Report Builder

2 2 Questionnaires using SharePoint forms Clickable onboarding steps s to right aliases Deployment from one environment to the next

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