Top 10 Reasons for Using SQL Server Report Builder and Reporting ServicesThierry D’hersGroup Program Manager SQL Server Reporting ServicesThierry.dhers@microsoft.com

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Top 11 reasons for using SQL Server Reporting Services (2008)Thierry D’hersGroup Program Manager SQL Server Reporting ServicesThierry.dhers@microsoft.com

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Business Intelligence with the world’s most popular business productivity suite and most widely deployed information platform

IT management & developer

productivity

Empower Your People

Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Increase IT Efficiency

Trusted, scalable & secure

Alignment, accountability &

ownership

Collaborative across your value chain

Familiar interface & tools you own today

Self-service access & insight

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IT management & developer

productivity

Empower Your People

Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Increase IT Efficiency

Trusted, scalable & secure

Alignment, accountability &

ownership

Collaborative across your value chain

Familiar interface & tools you own today

Self-service access & insight

Business Intelligence with the world’s most popular business productivity suite and most widely deployed information platform

Microsoft Business Intelligence

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IT management & developer

productivity

Empower Your People

Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Increase IT Efficiency

Trusted, scalable & secure

Alignment, accountability &

ownership

Collaborative across your value chain

Familiar interface & tools you own today

Self-service access & insight

Business Intelligence with the world’s most popular business productivity suite and most widely deployed information platform

Low cost of acquisition, deployment and ownership…

Reason #: 11

Cost of acquisition: = 1 single Box

Cost of Ownership/Development:Use of standards and open format: SOAP, XML, MDX, RDLXML based metadata and artifact definition Extensive use of wizard in both development and deployment toolsLeverage Developer skillset, IW know how: Visual Studio, CLR, Office Client, Office Server

RDB ETL OLAP ReportingRDB + ETL + OLAP + Reporting

Deep investment, as integral part of overall MS BI strategy, for all 3 audiences: IW, DBA and Developers

Reason #: 10

DBA: First to ship a reporting platform with a Relational DatabaseCommon Management experience and Infrastructure.

Dev: Leverage Developers skill-set by integrating Design and embedding experience in the VS IDEBuilt and shipped Free Chart controls in the framework.

IWSelf Service: Lowering the bar of entry for authoring reportMaking BI as easy as writing a PowerPoint or Word document

Deep and rich integration with existing corporate Development tools, collaboration tools or productivity

tools

Reason #: 9

Powerful designersBuilt into the Enterprise IDELeveraging Sharepoint collaboration and search corporate platform

Visual Studio

Sharepoint

Office Client experienceBrowser

Extensible platform: Can’t find it out of the Box? Build it yourself!

Reason #: 8

Extensible Data SourcesExtensible Rendering (Beyond Word, Excel, CSV, XML, PDF, HTML, TIFF…)Extensible SecurityExtensible Data Processing extensionsExtensible Custom report Items

Great community support

Reason #: 7

Large book collection written by MVPsR&D Team daily involvement in Forums and Microsoft Connect:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/threads/www.connect.microsoft.com

Dozens of blogs by MVPs and Product group team membersPresence at Conferences: SQL PASS, Teched, PDC, SQL/Dev Connections, BI Conference…

RS MVP Bloggers & AuthorsTeo Lachev Chris WebbBrian LarsonPaul TurleyRussell Christopher

RS Team BloggersRS Team Blog Chris Hays Bob Meyers Robert BrucknerJohn Gallardo Lukasz Pawlowski James Wu Brian Hartman Sean Boon Alex Gorev

Part of an End to End Solution for all your data

Reason #: 6

All DataStructuredSemi StructuredUnstructuredSpatial…

Acquired, enriched and deployed through an End to End platform…

Business User Experience

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Business Collaboration Platform

Information Platform Information PlatformAnalysis ServicesReporting ServicesIntegration ServicesMaster DataData Mining ServicesData Warehousing

Integrated Content and CollaborationThin ClientsDashboardsBI SearchContent ManagementCompositions

Familiar User Experience Self-service Access and InsightData Exploration and AnalysisPredictive AnalysisData VisualizationContextual Visualization

Built to dynamically scale from garage shop to multinational corporation.

Reason #: 5Can work on departmental SQL Express appsCan scale to large Scale out farm infrastructureBuilt on a robust core SQL infrastructure

No more IIS dependency, Architecture rehosted on SQLOSResource management

On Demand Processing ArchitectureOnly process and render data on demandScaling Up Reporting Services 2008 vs. Reporting Services 2005: Lessons Learned:http://sqlcat.com/technicalnotes/archive/2008/07/09/scaling-up-reporting-services-2008-vs-reporting-services-2005-lessons-learned.aspx

Rich Data sources reach…

Reason #: 4

ADO.Net:Teradata, Oracle, SQL, DB2, SSAS, SAPBW, Hyperion EssbaseNew in R2: PowerPivot, Sharepoint list, SQL Azure, SQL Parallele Data Warehouse

OLEDB:Informix, Sybase…

XMLODBC

Text, Excel, CSV File…

OLEDBOLEDB

ODBCODBC

ADO.NETADO.NET

VS Data Connection UIVS Data Connection UI

OLEDB Data Link UIOLEDB Data Link UIODBC Admin UIODBC Admin UI Microsoft Query

Microsoft Query

Office Data Connection Wizard

Office Data Connection Wizard

ODBC Connection

Wizards

ODBC Connection

Wizards

ExcelExcel Report Builder

Report Builder

Visual Studio

Visual Studio

SQL ASOracle ... SAP ...XLS MDB

Model Designer

Model Designer

RS Data Source UI

RS Data Source UI

AS Data Source UI

AS Data Source UI

Report Designer

Report Designer

...

File Drivers (ISAM)File Drivers (ISAM)

Relational OLAPFile

Most flexible report layout in the market in 6 letters…?

Reason #: 3

Most flexible report layout in the market in 6 letters…TABL-IX

2001 2002 Total

1,115 1,331 2,446

152 642 794

11,156 13,312 24,4681,523 6,421 7,944

13,946 21,706 35,653

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Wholesale ABC Corp.Thor, Ltd.

Grand Total

CustomerRetail

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WholesaleABC Corp.Thor, Ltd.

Grand Total

Growth

19%322%

19%322%

56%

Tabl ixe + Matr

Flexible Report Layout

Stepped or Block grouping

PivotCustom

SubtotalsNon-pivotcolumns

Nested controls Multi-Pivot

CustomHeaders

Highly flexible layout options

Most Flexible with Multiple Layout Targets

Render to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, XML, TIFF…Support diverse industry and regional layout requirementsEnable pixel perfect reports with interactivity and animationHigh resolution printing

Report Builder Word

PDF

HTML

Excel

Coolest data Visualization in its class

Reason #: 2

Extensive Visualizations

Tablix Visualizations: Sparklines and Data Bars

Sparklines“Data intense, word-sized graphics” – TufteAutomatic axis alignment. All charts can have the same data points, regardless of source dataCan be converted into full charts to support additional small multiple scenarios

Data BarsUsually depicts a single value in a cellMin and Max are automatically determined, but are configurable

Sparklines Data Bars

New in R2

Tablix Visualization: IndicatorsIcons used to depict the status against a value, goals or a trendReport authors can create their own sets or choose from several pre-configured setsColors, Icon and Size can be changed based on data.Automatic support for comparing each member of a group against siblingsCan also be placed inside gauges

New in R2

Map FeaturesSupport for SQL SpatialIntegration with Virtual Earth tilesData Grouping

Equal intervals, equal distribution, optimal, user-definedMultiple Map layers

New in R2

Unique End user productivity and Self service Reporting solution:

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Reason #: 1

Unique End user productivity and Self service Reporting solution:

RB 3.0

Self-service report authoringReport Builder 3.0

Familiar Microsoft Office InterfaceRich VisualizationsPowerful Query DesignerPowerPivot & SharePoint lists as data sourcesReport Part Gallery for “grab and go” report design experience

New in R2

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Business Intelligence with the world’s most popular business productivity suite and most widely deployed information platform

IT management & developer

productivity

Empower Your People

Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Increase IT Efficiency

Trusted, scalable & secure

Alignment, accountability &

ownership

Collaborative across your value chain

Familiar interface & tools you own today

Self-service access & insight

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