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Chris McNulty
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SharePoint Strategic Product Manager at Quest
Software
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10+ years with SharePoint
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20 years consulting (led KMA SharePoint practice)
and financial services technology (Santander, John
Hancock/Manulife, GMO, State Street)
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MBA in Investment Management from Boston
College
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Write and speak often on Microsoft IW
technologies (blogs & books)
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MCSE MCTS MSA MVTSP MCC
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Hiking, cooking, playing guitar, colonial history,
photography
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My family: Hayley, three kids (17, 8, 5) and my dog
Stan
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Agenda
•Business Intelligence in SharePoint Today
•SQL Server 2012 Overview
•SQL Server Reporting Services
•Power View – Crescent
•Always On
•Upgrade paths
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Goals for BI Design
• Answering the known questions
about our business
• Allowing users to self-discover
patterns and answers to
questions we haven’t yet been
asked
Cost
Complexity Levels of These Solutions
Time
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SharePoint BI Evolution
Enabling
technologies
Excel
Services
Chart
Web Part
• Excel Web
Access
• PowerPivot
• Business
Connectivity
Services
• SQL Reporting
Services
• Pivot
• Azure
DataMarket
Performance
Point
• Dashboards
• Analysis
Services
Custom
Solutions
• Mapping
• Web Parts
• Etc.
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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• “Code free” integrated solution (with
SQL 2008 R2)
• (can also use Business Intelligence Developer
Studio)
• SharePoint integrated mode preferred
• Export contents to Excel, Word, etc.
• Reuse in SharePoint and Performance
Point Dashboards
• Use when some reports are printed,
multipage, etc.
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PowerPivot
• “Project Gemini” – host 110MM row datasets
• Excel and SharePoint
components
• Data doesn’t live in
spreadsheet
• Released with SQL Server
2008 R2 but doesn’t explicitly
require the R2 Engine
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Recap: Microsoft and SQL 2008 R2
• Invested heavily for Corporate BI
Shared DataSets
Report parts, Report part gallery
New Visualizations: Map, gauge, sparkline,
databar, KPI
Ajax Report viewer
• Cut scenarios
Adhoc reporting
Alerting
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Introducing SQL Server 2012
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SQL Server Provides Rapid Data Exploration
Only 28% of an organization has
access to BI tools*
Gartner, “Business Intelligence Purchase Drivers and Adoption Rates, 2009 Survey Results,” Bill Hostmann, Sept. 4, 2009
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With Managed Self-Service BI
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Provides Required 9s of Availability
Without Cost and Complexity
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Summary
Required 9s
Blazing Fast
Enhanced
Scale
and Visualization
Self Service BI
Consistent Data
Cloud and On Premise
Anywhere
Superior DW
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SharePoint/SQL 2012 BI
PowerPivot
SSRS
• Alerts
• Data Feeds
Enabling
technologies
Excel
Services
Chart
Web Part
• Excel Web
Access
• PowerPivot
• Business
Connectivity
Services
• SQL Reporting
Services
• Pivot
• Azure
DataMarket
• Power View
Self-Service
Performance
Point
• Dashboards
• Analysis
Services
Custom
Solutions
• Mapping
• Web Parts
• Etc.
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Self Service Alerting – User Benefits
Create data alerts from within reports
• Users create alerts directly on the data they see in
reports
• Report authors control which data is available for
alerting
• Supports reports created in Report Builder or BI
Development Studio (BIDS)
Detect important data changes
• Intuitive Alert Rules (greater than, before/after)
• Easy to use scheduling (weekly, daily, monthly)
• Relevant data included in Alert Message
Source: Data.gov - Data.gov and the Federal Government cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from
these data after the data have been retrieved from Data.gov.
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Self Service Alerting – IT Benefits
Managed through SharePoint
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Per site administration reduces IT burden
Fine grained authorization
Self-managed through SharePoint
IT Visibility & Control of user-defined alerts
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New SSRS SharePoint Integration Benefits
• SSRS SharePoint 2010 Shared Service
• Hosted in SharePoint Shared Service App pool
• SSRS catalog DBs are SharePoint Service App DBs
• WCF and Claims based communication
• PowerShell Cmdlets
• Central Admin UI for all RS administration
• ULS Logging integration
• Built-in scale-out and load balancer
• Report Performance Improvements
• For reports in AJAX Viewer
• Parity with Denali Native mode performance
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Top SharePoint mode pain point
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Small reports used to be 2-3 times slower: Fixed
• Faster than 2008 R2 SharePoint mode ~ 30-60%
• SQL Setup option for SSRS SharePoint service
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SSRS SharePoint Integration Architecture
for SQL Server codenamed “Denali”
Alert Designer
SharePoint
Web Front End
Alert Manager
SharePoint
App Server
SSRS in Web Application
SSRS Shared Service
Application
RS Add-in
SSRS Shared Service
Application
SharePoint Config / Content
DB
Report Server Shared
Service DB
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Self-Service Alerting – How it works
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Receiving alerts
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DEMO
• Self Service Alerting
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SQL Server 2012 Power View
Highly Visual Design Experience
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Interactive, web-based authoring and sharing of information
Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns
Powerful data layout with banding, callout and small multiples visualizations
Rich metadata-driven interactivity
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Fully integrated with PowerPivot
Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying
Zero configuration highlighting and filtering
Animated trending and comparisons
Presentation-ready at all times
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Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into persuasive information
Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint
Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom session
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PowerPivot for SharePoint
Server, Services, and Components
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
Client
User renders a
workbook
WFE
App
Excel Web Access
Excel Calculation
Services
Excel Calc Services
Application Proxy
MSOLAP
Excel Web Service
Content
SQL
TCP
HTTP
Channel
PowerPivot Web Service
Data Sources
PowerPivot Sys Svc
Application Proxy
PowerPivot System
Service
Analysis Services in
VertiPaq Mode
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DEMO
• PowerPivot
• Power View
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SQL Server 2012 RTM
• Multiple views
• Export live to PowerPoint
• Storyboard view
• Chart interactivity
• Canvas UI
• Print
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SQL Server AlwaysOn
• Integrated, flexible, efficient
high availability for mission
critical business
• High availability platform
built for the future
• On-Premise, Private and Public
Cloud
• Comprehensive database and
instance-level protection
AlwaysOn Availability
Groups
database protection
Multi-Database Failover
Multiple Secondaries
Active Secondaries
Integrated HA Management
Multisite Clustering
Flexible Failover Policy
Improved Diagnostics
Built for consolidation scenarios
AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances
instance level protection
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Deployment Scenarios
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Disaster Recovery Target
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Primary Availability Replica
Secondary Availability Replica
Read-only Environment
Backup
Production Environment
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Availability Solutions
AlwaysOn
Failover Clustering
RTO
Geo-clustering or
Synchronous Database
Mirroring
Log Shipping
Backup/Restore
Zero
Seconds
RPO
Minutes
Hours
Days
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Limitations
• SharePoint 2010 does not support multi-site, stretch clusters
• Intra-farm latency cannot exceed 20ms first byte / 1ms RTT between
components/farm members
• Asynchronous replication is discouraged to protect data
integrity
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Climb Denali – You Can Do It! (upgrade, I mean…)
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In-Place Upgrade – Overview
• Upgrades existing installation
• On same machine and platform
• Instance name remains
• Old instance is removed
• New shared components are installed
• User data and configuration is preserved
• Mostly automated process through Setup
• Existing instance is intact as long as possible
• Can upgrade to same edition or higher
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In-Place Upgrade – Matrix
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Don’t Fall!
• CTP3 <> RTM!!!!
• RTM March 7 2012!
• Infrastructure
• Must run SP2010 SP1
• Upgrade to PowerPivot v2 Excel
• Incompatible with Project Server 2010 (for now!) SSAS
Cubes
• Alerts
• Not intended for real-time notification
• Structured Data Feeds
• Power View
• Requires PowerPivot v2
• Always On
• Not click-click-OK!
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Engineering
Business
Connectivity
Services
(BCS)
Performance
Point
SQL Analysis
Services
Secure Store
Service
Excel
Services
Office Web
Apps (OWA)
Reporting
Services (SSRS)
Integrated
SQL Server
Reporting
Services
(SSRS)
Pivot
Power View
SQL Server
2012
Silverlight
Power Pivot v2
SQL 2008 R2
SharePoint
Integrated
PowerPivot
(BIDS for
Native Mode)
Excel Services
Secure Store
Service
SSRS Alerts
SQL 2008 R2
Enterprise
Kerberos
[optional]
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BI Solutions in SharePoint 2010/SQL 2012
Large Datasets
PowerPivot
Self Service
Power View
PerformancePoint
SSRS Alerts
Visual Navigation
Pivot
Mapping
SharePoint list
SQL Reporting
Services
Printing or
exporting
KPI / Status Indicator
Chart Web Part
Excel Services
Small Datasets
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Resources - General
• From Microsoft:
• SQL 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions.aspx
• Business Intelligence: http://www.microsoft.com/bi/
• SharePoint 2010 site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com
• SharePoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx
• BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/
• From Quest
• www.quest.com
• SharePoint Community www.sharepointforall.com
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The carousel
paradox…
•Questions
•Contact Me
•Evaluations
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Thank you…
• Contact
• Email chris.mcnulty@quest.com
• Blog http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and
http://www.sharepointforall.com
• Twitter: @cmcnulty2000
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcnulty
• Upcoming:
• March - SharePoint Conference Australia
• April – SPS Twin Cities, TEC San Diego
• May – New England SPUG
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