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

What’s New in Reporting Services & Report Builder 3.0

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

Microsoft BI Vision

• Complete and integratedBI and PerformanceManagement offering

• Agile products that adapt tohow your need the information

• Built on a trusted partof your IT backbone

Data Infrastructure & BI Platform• Analysis Services• Reporting Services• Master Data Services• Integration Services• Data Mining• Data Warehousing

BUSINESS COLLABORATION PLATFORM

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM

BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE

The Microsoft BI Solution Stack

Business Productivity Infrastructure• Dashboards &

Scorecards• Excel Services• Web based forms

& workflow• Collaboration• Search• Content

Management• LOB data integration• PowerPivot for

SharePoint

The Microsoft BI Solution Stack

BUSINESS COLLABORATION PLATFORM

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM

BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE

Delivered through a Familiar Interface• Self-Service access

& insight• Data exploration

& analysis• Predictive analysis• Data visualization• Contextual

visualization

The Microsoft BI Solution Stack

BUSINESS COLLABORATION PLATFORM

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM

BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE

SCALE EFFICIENTLY ACCORDING TO DEMAND

Addressing Today’s Customer Needs

Optimize performance, scale-up individual servers and scale-out very large data warehouses and gain real time insights from high performance, event based applications.

REDUCE RISK, GAIN AGILITY

Improve IT’s ability to respond to business changes by enabling centralized management, policy-based control and rapid configuration and deployment.

RESPOND QUICKLY TO BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Make better, more timely decisions by empowering end users to access, integrate, analyze and share information using Microsoft Office tools they are already familiar with.

Enterprise-level security, scalability

High-scale, complex event processing

Data consistency across heterogeneous systems

MPP support for 10s-100s TB DW

Highly scalable appliancesSeamless BI Integration

Scalable relational database platformConsistent, familiar model & tools

Self-managed, highly available cloud service

TRUSTED, SCALABLE PLATFORM

IT & DEVELOPER EFFICIENCY

MANAGED SELF-SERVICE BI

Multi-server management

Virtualization & Live Migration

Accelerated development& deployment

Self-service analytics

Self-service reporting

Streamlined collaboration& management

COMPREHENSIVE PLATFORM FOR IT VALUE

Managed Self-Service BIThe ability to respond quickly to business

opportunities and customer needs can be a huge differentiator.

Empower End UsersShare & CollaborateIncrease IT Efficiency

Managed Self-Service BI

Easily access and integrate data

Intuitive authoring & powerful analysis

Rich visualizations and flexible layouts

Share & collaborate with ease

Access and re-use insights

Automatic data refresh

Central management

Data consistency across heterogeneous systems

Deliver data securely and efficiently

“Kilimanjaro signifies a greater emphasis toward supporting the needs of end users by leveraging the capabilities of SQL Server and the ubiquity of Excel.”- Helena Schwenk, Ovum

Empower Your Users Share and Collaborate Increase IT Efficiency

Empower Your Users

“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 new Report Builder is fundamentally improving our relationship with our customers by giving them the power and flexibility to create and modify their own reports to meet their immediate needs, removing the delay and cost of needing a report developer. “- Peter Hammond, CyberSavvy.NET

SITUATION TODAY

Users need timely access to information

Ability to combine data across multiple sources provides a more accurate view

Flexible layout options and reusable insights

REPORTING SERVICES & REPORT BUILDER 3.0

Easy access to relational and multidimensional data

Productive reporting with familiar Microsoft Office interface

Highly flexible layout options, rich visualizations, re-usable report components

Self-service report authoring

Report Builder 3.0 • Familiar Microsoft

Office Interface• Rich Visualizations• Powerful Query

Designer• PowerPivot &

SharePoint lists as data sources

• Report Part Gallery for “grab and go” report design experience

Stepped or Block grouping

PivotCustom

SubtotalsNon-pivotcolumns

Nested controls

Multi-Pivot

CustomHeaders

Highly flexible layout options

Tablix Visualizations: Sparklines and Data Bars

• Sparklines− “Data intense, word-sized

graphics” – Tufte− Automatic axis alignment.

All charts can have the same data points, regardless of source data.

− Can be converted into full charts to support additional small multiple scenarios.

• Data Bars− Usually depicts a single

value in a cell.− Min and Max are

automatically determined, but are configurable. Sparklines Data Bars

Tablix Visualization: Indicators

• Icons used to depict the status against a value, goals or a trend.

• Report authors can create their own sets or choose from several pre-configured sets.

• Colors, Icon and Size can be changed based on data.

• Automatic support for comparing each member of a group against siblings.

• Can also be placed inside gauges.

Map Features

• Support for SQL Spatial• Integration with Virtual Earth tiles• Data Grouping

− Equal intervals, equal distribution, optimal, user-defined• Multiple Map layers

Extensive Visualizations

Enhanced Report Viewer and Report Manager Experience

• Refreshed viewer look and feel• Smooth and fluid navigation experience

(AJAX Report Viewer)• Updated Report Manager. Workflow

optimized (no need to preview report to access its properties or manage it)

• Updated Report Manager look and feel

Share & Collaborate

Capitalize on Existing ReportsReusing common report elements helps to accelerate report creation, cut down costs, and increase end-user adoption. SharePoint provides the central location for users to access a library of existing

reports and identify desired reusable content .

New Report

SourceReport

Report Part Gallery

ATOM Feed

Published Reports

Data Sources

Encapsu-lating

Reports

SharePoint Farm

Report-BasedData Feeds

Encapsulating Data Sources

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2Data feed capabilities are provided out of the box in every report.

Maximizing Business Insight

OLTP and OLAP Data Sources

Report Builder 3.0Presenter Name

demo

Empower your Users

Share and Collaborate

Increase IT and Developer Efficiency

Unlock Your Data

Deliver Relevant Information

Drive Actionable Insights

Summary – Business Insight to All Employees

Early Feedback

“SQL Server has already brought so much value to our organization, whether it’s givingus more insight into our data, reducing demands on our hardware or simply speeding up the performance of our applications.”

- Ron Van Zanten, directing officer of Business Intelligence, Premier Bankcard Inc.

“Our analysts can do anything with Excel, so integrating Excel as a front end for our BI infrastructure is extremely popular. It makes it easier to explore the huge wealth of data we have in our 17-terabyte data warehouse”

- Dan Zerfas,Vice President of Software Development

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 new Report Builder is fundamentally improving our relationship with our customers by giving them the power and flexibility to create and modify their own reports to meet their immediate needs, removing the delay and cost of needing a report developer.

- Peter Hammond, CyberSavvy.NET

Call to Action

• Learn more about SQL Server 2008 R2 at www.microsoft.com/sqlserver

• Evaluate SQL Server 2008 R2• Download Report Builder 3.0 today and

evaluate it against any supported data source (doesn’t have to be R2)

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