1. Empowering End Users with Report Models
John Racer
Empowering End Users with Report Models

2. About Me Database Programmer / Analyst
11+ Years Administration & Development
1 min

3. Survey Are you using SSRS in Production?
Have you worked with Report Models or other ‘semantic’ tools for reporting?

4. Self-Service Business Intelligence

5. What is a Report Model
A Report Model is the metadata or ‘semantic’ layer created to abstract access to database schema for simplified end user reporting.

6. Building Model Based Reports
BIDS
Report Builder 1.0 (2005/8)
Report Builder 2.0 (2008)
Report Builder 3.0 (2008R2)

7. High Level Components Report Models (.smdl) Data Source Views (.dsv)
Data Sources (.ds)

8. Report Model Objects Entities Attributes Roles Expressions Folders
Perspectives

9. How to Create a Model Report Manager Model Designer (BIDS)
SharePoint Server

10. Report Manager Demo

11. Model Designer Demo

12. Report Builder 3.0 Demo

13. Questions?

14. Thanks for Stopping By
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