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Business Intelligence and
SharePoint 2010
Steve McDonnell
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Agenda
• Options for BI in SharePoint 2010
• Solution Overview
• Pre-Reporting Tools
 Integration Services – SSIS
 Analysis Services – SSAS
• Reporting Tools
 Reporting Services – SSRS
 PerformancePoint
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Demo: Process Overview
Raw Data
Database
Data Cubes
Reports and Dashboards
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Methods and Technologies Used
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
 Allows you to bring disparate data into one central location
 Can perform complex transformations while moving data
 Allows you to build a Data Warehouse or Data Marts
• This stage can be the most time consuming process in a BI Project
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Methods and Technologies Used
• SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
 Used to build data cubes (or OLAP cubes) that enables dynamic, real time,
analytical processing and advanced reporting
 Data cubes pre-calculate aggregations to enable real time analytics
 Data cubes are n-dimensional
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Methods and Technologies Used
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
 Report Writing Tool built into SQL Server
 Integrates with SharePoint
 Permissions to reports are controlled from within SharePoint like normal documents
 Users can create new reports from within SharePoint
 Users can set up a scheduled delivery of reports via email
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Methods and Technologies Used
• PerformancePoint Services
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Microsoft’s high end dashboarding product
Interactive Charts and Reports work with Multi-dimensional data
End users can easily create new reports from within SharePoint
This product used to cost more per user than SharePoint 2007 Enterprise
 Now included as a Service in SharePoint 2010
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Gartner’s 2011 BI product Roundup
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Questions?
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