1. BI4ALL Demonstration 04 Reports
1/7/2012

2. Introduction Why have Report Services reports
Fundamental design techniques
What is common across the reports
Subject Areas
Demonstration
Summary

3. Why Have RS Reports Report Services was selected in 2005
It was expected MSFT would make it pervasive
It was the only RDL based reporting solution
More were expected to evolve
It was bundled with SQL Server 2005
Low cost solution for MSFT platform
The reporting tools market was fragmented and still is
It is intended to demonstrate what is possible
It was NOT intended to be “finished” product
When combined with Dundas the results were reasonable for the time, 2006
Reports stabilised in favour of data model development

4. Fundamental Design Techniques
All objects were to refer to the custom assembly
All calls were to refer to SPs
The reports were to be customisable at run time as much as was possible
Multiple languages to be supported from a single base
Multiple currencies to be supported
Multiple countries to be supported
Maps to be supported
We wanted a demonstration that showed what could be done with a little thought on Report Services
Allowing the client to use other tools over our models

5. Subject Areas
Campaign Analysis
Sales Analysis
Segmentation Analysis

6. Summary Why have Report Services reports Fundamental design techniques
What is common across the reports
Subject Areas
Demonstration
Summary