1. Microsoft Business Intelligence Environment Overview

2. BI Environment Overview Business Intelligence Suite consisting of Office 2010, Sharepoint 2010 and SQL Server 2010. Designed to provide easy access to the wealth of information contained in your data. “Business Intelligence solutions enable IT departments to proactively empower users with self-service capabilities while retaining the ability to monitor, manage, and govern the data and solutions that users create.” 2011

3. BI Environment Overview Institutional Analysis and Planning’s (IAP) implementation of the BI Suite Report User Experience –Demonstration of the reporting environment the user sees and the export functionality Cube User Experience –Demonstration of the Cube environment Developer Experience –Construction and Structure of cubes 2011

4. Report User Experience What does the end user see? What are Reports? 2011

5. Cube User Experience Accessed through Excel pivot tables Leverages already existing user experience in Excel Drill through for detailed comparisons Excel does not directly access the data, data is provided through Analysis Services. 2011

6. Cube Demo How many students are in a specific class? What was the average grade of the class? How many students were in housing and were their grades different? 2011

7. Developer Experiences Reports Cubes Database structure 2011

8. Report Creation Database connection (Data Source) Queries on the Data Source (Datasets) Tables of data like pivot tables (Tablix) Charts Report Parameters Reuse of created content (Report Parts and Sub-reports) 2011

9. Cube Creation Dimensions, Measures, Calculated Measures, KPIs Relationships between measures and dimensions How the cube deals with many-to-many joins 2011

10. SQL Server Integration Services 2011

11. SSIS in BI Developer Studio 2011

12. Database Structure 2011 Snowflake Schema – Lessons Learned Fact and Dimension tables Foreign Key Constraints for Data Integrity

13. Database Structure 2011

14. Server Architecture 2011 Shared SQL Server Web Reporting and Analysis Services Campus Web and Excel Access Oracle Server

15. Questions? 2011