What’s New with Reporting Services 2016?Angel AbundezVP Business Intelligence, DesignMindangel@designmind.comwww.designmind.com/blog

Agenda

• New Reporting Portal• New and improved

Visualizations• Improved Report Builder• New Mobile Report Publisher• New Power BI App (iOS,

Android, Windows)

Welcome the New Reporting Portal

• Rebuilt in HTML5• Cross-browser • Embeddable via iFrame• New Printing Control• New Subscription Functionality • Branding• Store Power BI and Excel files

The New Reporting Portal

The New Reporting Portal

• Grouped by Objects• Unhide via Display

button• Select Manage for

additional settings• No Click Once

Explore the new Reporting PortalDemo

Branding

• How-to Brand the Web Portal: http://bit.ly/ssrsbranding• Download original branding package: http://

bit.ly/ssrsbranddownloads• Three key files• colors.json Edit in Notepad. Use http://www.color-hex.com• logo.png Logo for site• metadata.xml Config file. Don’t change.

Better defaults & new visualizations

New Visualizations: Tree Map and Sunburst

Improved Visualization Defaults

SSRS 2005

SSRS 2008 R2 – SQL 2014 SSRS 2012• No axis lines• No tick marks• Subtle title and labels

Better defaults

• Pacific (Default)• Pacific Light• PacificSemiTransparent

Newly Skinned Report BuilderNew Parameter Design

Look at the DifferenceDemo - Visualizations

New Mobile Report Publisher

Speaks for itself, don’t

it?

New Mobile Report Publisher

Tips on using the New Mobile Report Publisher

• Walk-through an example:• http://

www.skylinetechnologies.com/Insights/Skyline-Blog/September-2014/Creating-Dashboards-with-Datazen

• Create a dataset first: • use Report Builder to publish one to Report Server• create from Excel spreadsheet

• Learn the data format expected by each Visualization• Place viz on Mobile canvas• Switch to Data tab to see “Simulated Data” examples and how the visualization

settings are configured.• Don’t focus on PC view, focus on other form factors:• Tablet• Mobile

Journey through Mobile Report PublisherDemo - Visualizations

Power BI Mobile App

• Available on iOS, Android, and Windows phone; Tablet and Phones

• View SSRS KPIs and Mobile Reports via Power BI App

• View Power BI Serice Dashboards and Reports

Prepare to go MobileDemo – Power BI App

Thank YouMay the Force be with You