How SSRS, Datazen, Power BI and Excel fit together?
Transcript of How SSRS, Datazen, Power BI and Excel fit together?
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How SSRS, Datazen, Power BI
and Excel fit together?
Martin Záruba, BI Consultant
linkedin.com/in/zarubamartin
@martin_sql
Business Intelligence
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SharePointPower Pivot Gallery, Power View
ExcelData Mining
Azure ML
Analytics Platform System(APS)
Deliver right information to all users, in a way that is highly relevant and useful to each, at right time
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Microsoft’s Vision for Business
Intelligence
We intend to standardize reporting content types across
Microsoft on-premises, cloud and hybrid systems. Our
reporting path forward focuses on four report types.
Microsoft BI Report Types
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Interactive reports
Paginated reports
Spreadsheets
Mobile reports
On-Premises & Cloud Symmetry
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What‘s new in SQL Server 2016
Reporting Services
New Web Portal 1/2
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• Modern Web Portal
replaces old Report
Manager
• Content organization:
– KPIs
– Mobile Reports
– Paginated Reports
– Power BI Desktop Reports
– Excel Workbooks
– Data Sets
– Data Sources
– Resources
• HTML 5 rendering engine
• Supported Browsers
– Edge, Internet Explorer 10+,
Chrome, Firefox, Safari
New Web Portal 2/2
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• Custom Branding
• Favorites
• Search for reports, KPI
and other files
• Support for Sharepoint
2016
• Report Embedding (mobile
and paginated reports)
Paginated Reports
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• Custom parameters pane
• New chart types Tree Map
and Sunburst
• New default styles for
tables, charts, gauges,
maps, and other data
visualizations
• Pin gauges, charts,
images to Power BI cloud
service
• Export to PowerPoint
• Print doesn’t require
ActiveX
• Development tools
– Report Builder
– SQL Server Data Tools
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Mobile Reports (Datazen)
Mobile Reports
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• Previously Datazen now
Mobile Reports and KPIs
in SQL Server 2016
Reporting Services
• Interactive dashboards
optimalized for mobile
devices
• Datazen Data View
replaced with Shared Data
Set
• Extensive Drill-Downs and
Drill-Throughs
• Ability to link (drill-through)
from a mobile report to:
– Another mobile report, or
– To a custom URL (e.g.:
paginated report)
Mobile Report Publisher
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• Quick creation of
dashboards that scale well
to any screen size
• Easily create beautiful
visualizations and KPIs
with a touch-based
designer
• Connect to Report Server
to access data sources
• Publish for access by
others
• Supported Operating
System:
– Windows 7, Windows 8.1,
Windows 10
– .NET Framework 4.5
NativeApps forAll Platforms
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• Only one mobile
application: Power BI
• Connect to Report Server
• Access published
dashboards and KPIs -
online and offline
• Provide premium
experiences across all
platforms, device types
and form factors
• Available for download
from the respective app
stores
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DEMO
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Analytical reports and charts (Excel)
Interactive reports (Power BI)
Power BI architecture
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Unlock your Excel data
Analyze data and publish your workbooks to Power BI
Create Power BI Content
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Connect to data and build reports for Power BI
What is Power BI Desktop ?
Interactive Reports
Analyse and Share Power BI Content
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Connect to data anywhere (on-premises, cloud or
both of them)
What is Power BI Service ?
Power BI provides many useful features and capabilities
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Features and capabilitiesUpdates: weekly (Power BI Service) / monthly (Power BI Desktop)
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DEMO
Connect to your on-premises and cloud data
• Deploy quickly with a hybrid BI solution
‒ manage and secure data on-premises with SQL Server Analysis Services
• Scheduled refresh
‒ regardless of where data lives
‒ SaaS data sources (automatic)
‒ schedule refreshes for on-premise data sources with Personal / Enterprise Gateway
• Live connectivity
‒ data is updated as user interacts with dashboard or report, optimized query performance for interactive data exploration
‒ to existing on-premise sources via Analysis Services
‒ On-premise SQL Server, SAP HANA, Oracle, Teradata
‒ to Azure SQL Database, SQL Data Warehouse, Spark on HDInsight
• Real-time dashboards
‒ using the Power BI REST API or
‒ with built-in Azure Stream Analytics integration
Keep all your data current, Live Query, DirectQuery & Scheduled Data Refresh
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