2. Ryan Jamieson Session Code: BIN302 Director IS Partners

3. Some questions Who has written a report? Who is involved in BI? Who knows how to build Analysis Services Cubes? Who uses Excel as a front end to their BI?

4. Agenda Enabling interactive user access to corporate data - introduction Building the right cubes Excel and Excel Services Other Tools for Excel Q&A

5. Basic overview of Excel And Analysis Services

6. What Is SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services? Dashboards Rich Reports BI Front Ends Spreadsheets Ad-Hoc Reports SQLServer Teradata OracleDB2 LOB DW Datamart AnalysisServices UDM Cache XML/A or ODBO

7. The Ugly

8. Key Features of Analysis Service Some features that enable browseability Hierarchies Display folders Named Sets Perspectives Time Dimensions Member Properties Measures – Formatting and Calculation

9. The Good

10. Excel and Excel Services Excel Ad-hoc reporting and Analysis Rich Dashboards and Reports PTPower can enhance working with pivot tables Excel Services Thin client deployment Drill down Gotchas: Security, Excel Add-ins, Logos/Pictures Rich: calculations, named sets, exception highlighting, actions

11. Excel and Excel Services

12. Excel 2010

13. Summary Excel 2007 and Analysis Services 2008 create exciting new user experiences with data Interactive: Pivots, KPIs Friendly: business names, folders, hierarchies, formatting Personalized: perspective OLAP formulas Rich: calculations, named sets, exception highlighting, actions

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16. Questions and Answers Contact Details ryanj@ispartners.co.za White Papers “Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables” by Allan Folting http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2008/02/05/common-questions- around-excel-2007-OLAP-PivotTables.aspx Tools http://www.sqlserverpower.com/UtilityDetail/PTPower.aspx Other Sessions How to Get Started in Business Intelligence (WTB213) - Whiteboard Taking Your Application Design to the Next Level with Data Mining (BIN305) - Business Intelligence Business Intelligence POWER Hour (BIN207) - Business Intelligence Tue 4 Aug (17:30 - 18:30)

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