Welcome to the First Annual SharePoint Sacramento!!

CREATING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH SHAREPOINT 2010

Demo + Codehttp://bit.ly/kOqLnv

Ivan Sanders

SharePoint MVP Developer, Evangelist

ivan@dimension-si.com

http://twitter.com/@iasanders

Agenda• Who Am I• Business Intelligence (BI) Primer• BI Tools in SharePoint 2010• Excel Services• Visio Services• PerformancePoint Services• Reporting Services

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) PRIMER

What are Dashboards?• Visual displays of information needed to achieve one or more

objectives*• Single-Screen display of information• Should answer fundamental questions• Alert the user to issues or problems• Operational, Performance, Personal

EmpowerYour Users

What are Scorecards?• Elements of a dashboard• Align strategies and organizational goals• Measure and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI)• Modeled after the business, not the data

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 The business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web

EXCEL SERVICES & POWERPIVOT

What is Excel Services?• Real-time, interactive, end-user BI reporting tool

• Displays all or targeted elements of Excel workbooks through the browser

• Extends Excel capabilities such as external data connectivity and Excel based modeling to the browser

• Application Development platform for building data-centric applications• Automate workbooks via Web Services API• Provide highly interactive application • Easily distribute Excel content via REST

What is PowerPivot Technology “PowerPivoting” Massive Data Volumes

With a few mouse clicks, a user can create and publish intuitive and interactive self-service analysis solutions.

PowerPivot for Excel PowerPivot for SharePoint

Excel 2010 and Excel ServicesInteractive slicers enable users to look at the data from various directions in Excel 2010

and in the browser through PowerPivot for SharePoint and Excel Services.

Interactive Slicing and DicingEmpower

Your Users

VISIO SERVICES

Visio Services Key Features

Share Diagrams in SharePoint• Visualize your business intelligence with Visio diagrams• Diagrams can be viewed without having Visio client installed• Full Fidelity rendering with Silverlight, or PNG

Connect Diagrams to Data• Use data graphics to build front ends for your real-time business

intelligence solutions• Diagrams can be connected to various Data sources

Build Dashboards• Use Web Part Connections to integrate with other SharePoint web

parts• Use the Mashup API to fully customize your dashboards and

manipulate data

Visio Services features• Rendering

• Browser-agnostic• Full Fidelity rendering using • Down-level experience in PNG

• Visual Refresh of Data Diagrams• Refresh data connected diagrams to:

• Supports Kerberos, SSO & Unattended Auth.• Automatic refresh

OLEDB ODBCSP

ListsSQL Excel

Visio Services, At a Glance“Data-Driven Diagrams in SharePoint”

Data Source

1 hour later…

Top Features:Diagrams all live in SharePoint Diagrams viewable in the

browserDiagrams created once onlyDiagrams containing data

graphics are refreshableDiagrams give data context

and improve insights into the state of a system

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PERFORMANCEPOINT SERVICES

PerformancePoint Services• Context-driven dashboards across systems

• Provides transparency and accountability• Interactive access using browser• Can be created/updated by power-users/professionals

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Designing PPS Applications• Dashboard designer used to create content

• ClickOnce application launched from browser• Manages content directly in SharePoint

• Lists for content, data sources, dashboards

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Visual Data Exploration• Decomposition trees allow data exploration

• New in SharePoint 2010• Available by right clicking data in browser

• Analyze -> Decomposition Tree

• Allows filtering\expanding across dimensions• Allows faster and more relevant visualization of data

REPORTINGSERVICES

Report Authoring and Publishing Empower

Your Users

Reuse predefined queries, data and report subcomponentsUse reports as data sources for desktop analytics

Easily publish predefined queries, reports and charts independently of IT Sync updates with published content objectsTake advantage of SharePoint-integrated mode

Accelerate report creation by leveraging existing content objects, such as Queries, Tables, Charts, Maps, Gauges, Logos Significantly decrease report creation time Increase end user adoption Seamless Publishing via SharePoint

Intuitive Authoring

Report Sharing

Reuse of Subcomponents

Providing Rich Visualizations Rich Visualization of Geospatial Data

Get more value out of BI by “mashing up” business information with geographic representation.

Geospatial visualizations

in Report Builder 3.0:

Mapping, Routing, Custom Shapes, …

Support for SQL Spatial

Integration with Bing Maps

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Excel Services & PowerPivot

Excel Services & PowerPivotVisio ServicesPerformancePointReporting Services

demo

Summary• Common Issues Codeplex• Business Intelligence (BI) Primer• BI Tools in SharePoint 2010• Excel Services• PowerPivot• Visio Services• PerformancePoint Services• Reporting Services• Putting it all Together with Dashboards

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Who can you trust??• Maurice Prather http://www.bluedoglimited.com/default.aspx • Andrew Connell http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog • Spence Harbarhttp://www.harbar.net • Heather Solomon http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog • Todd Klindt http://www.toddklindt.com/default.aspx• Todd Baginski http://www.toddbaginski.com/blog • Todd Bleeker http://bit.ly/edlSm5

Jan Tielens http://weblogs.asp.net/jan • Patrick Tisseghem http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Patrick/default.aspx • Wictor Wilen http://www.wictorwilen.se • Ted Patisson http://blog.tedpattison.net/default.aspx • Lars Fastrup http://www.fastrup.net • Carsten Keutmann http://keutmann.blogspot.com• Keith Richie http://blog.krichie.com• Bill Baer http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer • Sahil Malik http://blah.winsmarts.com • Bil Simser http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser

Codeplex – with Source Code• http://cksdev.codeplex.com • http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com • http://spm.codeplex.com • http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com • http://spsf.codeplex.com • http://ssisctc.codeplex.com • http://mediabi.codeplex.com • http://spviewpermission.codeplex.com• http://bidshelper.codeplex.com • http://almspecialisttoolkit.codeplex.com • http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com

SharePoint 2010 GuidanceBook The Book

Downloads Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 (includes the Help file [CHM], samples, and library source code)

Media

•Introduction to Developing Applications with SharePoint 2010 •SharePoint Server-side Data Access – Part 1 of 3: Introduction •SharePoint Server-side Data Access – Part 2 of 3: Related Lists •SharePoint Server-side Data Access – Part 3 of 3: Analyzing Generated CAML

Support Discussions for patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance

Training Hands-on labs

Community patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance Community Site

License Microsoft patterns & practices license September 2009

CKS DEV VSIX ExtensionsWSPBuilder conversion tool (WCT) betaImproved Quick DeployKeyboard shortcutsUpdated Full Trust Proxy SPIRestart processes menusAttach to processes menusSolution level Package allImproved import Content Types

Branding SPIImproved Fluent visual web part SPIBasic service application SPIWCF service SPISharePoint PowerShell cmdlet SPISharePoint PowerShell pipe binding SPIImproved copy assembly name menu

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