Fresenius Medical Care – TAP ParticipantFresenius Medical Care (FME)• World's largest (70K employees worldwide)

integrated provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis treatments

• SharePoint as a Business Intelligence Platform

OneTAP Program benefits• Lead by gaining a strategic advantage• Influence by providing early and deep feedback• Connect by partnering with Microsoft

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How Fresenius Medical Care migrated Dashboards to 2013 Helge HöhnSenior SharePoint Expert / PM

Story

Background Information• Global operating department aggregates data of

manufacturing operations using SAP Business Warehouse (BW)

• Executive presentations are been created every month using Bex Queries (data querying via Excel-Add in supported by SAP)

• Presentations had been distributed via email

User demand for:• Automizing generation of reports• Interactive and centralized reporting (browser-based)• Simplification of report generation and distribution

BI with Microsoft @ FME

Architecture without SharePoint (old)

ETL-Process Reporting

Region A

Region B

Region C

SAP Bex Analyzer

1 Reports

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Business Warehouse

Proprietary

Interface

Architecture with SharePoint 2010 (now)

ETL-Process Reporting

Region A

Region B

Region C

B. WarehouseCountERPart For SAP

• PerformancePoint Services

• Reporting Services

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Architecture with SharePoint 2013 (TAP)

ETL-Process Reporting

Region A

Region B

Region C

B. WarehouseCountERPart For SAP

• PerformancePoint Services

• Reporting Services

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Direct connectio

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Own Dataware

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Migrating to SharePoint 2013

• Install SharePoint Server 2013• Install and configure SQL 2012 Reporting

Services components (for SSRS integration) on SharePoint machine• Create Reporting Services Service

Application• Configure SharePoint 2013 (e.g. Secure

Store Service and PerformancePoint Service)• Migrate Dashboard with Dashboard

Designer 2013 and Report Builder 3.0

Migration Process (Summary)

Reporting Services Setup

1. Install the SharePoint service:Install-SPRSService

2. Run the following PowerShell command to install the service proxy:Install-SPRSServiceProxy

3. Run the following PowerShell command to start the service get-spserviceinstance -all |where {$_.TypeName -like "SQL Server Reporting*"} | Start-SPServiceInstance

4. In SharePoint Central Administration, in the Application Management group, click Manage Service Applications.

5. In the SharePoint ribbon, click the New button.

6. In the New menu, click SQL Server Reporting Services Service Application..

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Live-Demo / Video (Dashboard Migration)

Screenshots: Samsung Galaxy S3

Please note: Screenshots contain demo data only.

Best Practices and Findings

• SSRS integration requires CTP3 (SP1) of SQL Server 2012• SSRS integration is PowerShell based• SharePoint 2013 beta had CSS bugs• Check your fonts and color settings in all

Scorecards after the migration

Best Practices and Findings (1/3)

• Watch out if you use Multi Authentication or a non Windows Authentication provider (click-once tools)• Watch out for the correct Dashboard

Designer and Report Builder version (click-once install)• Do not use Explorer View for copying

reports. Use Report Builder 3.0 only

Best Practices and Findings (2/3)

• SP 2013 Business Intelligence performs well on mobile devices (tested on: iPad 2 with iOS 5.1, Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1)• PowerView was not used because it can not

connect to cubes yet

Best Practices and Findings (3/3)

• Access SharePoint through mobile devices• Higher user adoption through the new user

interface(e.g.: sharing and managing documents, PeoplePicker, Task View etc. )• Single Point of entry (Social Features,

„Follow“-feature, push applications into MySites)• Commitment to Claims Based

Authentication

Benefits reached

• SQL Server 2012 SP1 (CTP3) download• SharePoint Server 2013 SSRS 2012 integrat

ion• Business Intelligence Features and SharePoi

nt 2013 (SQL Server 2012 SP1)

Contact me at: helge.hoehn@fresenius-netcare.com

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