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SSRS Report Builder 3.0 Overview & Demo
Tony Harris Principal Technology Strategist
Microsoft
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Agenda
Top 10 New Features in SSRS R2 and Report
Builder 3.0
Demo: Create visual SSRS report from scratch
using the new tool
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In this session, we are going to…
Include
Quick Report Builder overview and demo for power
users
Jump start training and demo of how to start from
scratch in RB 3.0
Not include
A thorough SSRS training
Security and all features of SSRS
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Top 10 Reasons to Use Report Builder 3.0 & SSRS R2
10 Empower your users with managed self service reporting
9 Enhanced report viewer
8 Share and collaborate
7 Integration with current development & collaboration tools
6 Part of an end to end solution for your data
5 Rich data sources reach…
4 Flexible report layout
3 Coolest data visualizations in its class
2 Maps
1 Denali
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Business User Experience
Microsoft Business Intelligence Get more out of products you already own
Business Collaboration Platform
Information Platform
Information Platform
Analysis Services
Reporting Services
Integration Services
Master Data
Data Mining Services
Data Warehousing
Integrated Content and Collaboration
Thin Clients
Dashboards
BI Search
Content Management
Compositions
Familiar User Experience
Self-service Access and Insight
Data Exploration and Analysis
Predictive Analysis
Data Visualization
Contextual Visualization
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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
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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
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Self-service report authoring
Report Builder 3.0
Familiar Microsoft Office Interface
Rich Visualizations
Powerful Query Designer
PowerPivot & SharePoint lists as data sources
Report Part Gallery for “grab and go” report design experience
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Refreshed viewer look and feel
Smooth and fluid navigation experience (AJAX Report
Viewer)
Updated Report Manager. Workflow optimized (no need to
preview report to access its properties or manage it)
Updated Report Manager look and feel
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Report Part Gallery
Capitalize on Existing Reports
Reusing common report elements helps to accelerate report creation, cut down costs, and increase end-user adoption. SharePoint provides the central location for users to access a library of existing reports and
identify desired reusable content
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Provisioned Shared data source AND Data sets
Leverage years of report building investment
Shred 100s of reports into 1000s of ready to use report part by End
users
IT manages report part queries and look and feel
Report as managed secured data source to PowerPivot
ATOM Data feed
No change to report needed, just upgrade 2005/2008 server to
2008 R2 and report are Data feed enabled automagically.
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Powerful designers
Built into the Enterprise IDE
Leveraging Sharepoint collaboration and search corporate platform
Visual Studio
SharePoint
Office Client experience Browser
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All Data Structured
Semi Structured
Unstructured
Spatial… Acquired, enriched and deployed through an End to End platform…
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ADO.Net:
Teradata, Oracle, SQL, DB2, SSAS, SAPBW, Hyperion Essbase
New in R2: PowerPivot, Sharepoint list, SQL Azure, SQL Parallel Data Warehouse
OLEDB:
Informix, Sybase…
XML
ODBC
Text, Excel, CSV File…
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ATOM
Feed
Published
Reports
Data
Sources
Encapsu-
lating
Reports
SharePoint
Farm
Report-Based
Data Feeds
Encapsulating Data Sources
SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 Data feed capabilities are provided out of the box in every report
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2001 2002 Total
1,115 1,331 2,446
152 642 794
11,156 13,312 24,468
1,523 6,421 7,944
13,946 21,706 35,653
Retail Odin
Bikes, Inc.
Wholesale ABC Corp.
Thor, Ltd.
Grand Total
Customer
Retail
Odin
Bikes, Inc.
Wholesale
ABC Corp.
Thor, Ltd.
Grand Total
Growth
19%
322%
19%
322%
56%
Tabl ix e+Matr
1,267 1,973 3,230 56%
12,679 19,733 32,412 57%
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Tablix = Best of Both Worlds ++
Matrix plus:
Multiple parallel row/column members at each level
Each member may be dynamic or static
Optional omission of member headers
Table plus:
Dynamic, nested column groups
Multiple parallel row groups
Static rows
Optional spanning row headers
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Table Chair
WA Seattle 20 30
Spokane 10 20
OR Portland 10 10
Eugene 25 5
2005 2006
WA Seattle 50 60
Spokane 30 40
OR Portland 40 50
Eugene 20 30
Current
Desired
Year Product
2005 2006 Table Chair
WA Seattle 50 60 20 30
Spokane 30 40 10 20
OR Portland 40 50 10 10
Eugene 20 30 25 5
Parallel Dynamic Groups
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State City Pop Area
WA Seattle 20 30
WA Spokane 10 20
OR Portland 10 10
OR Eugene 25 5
State City 2005 2006 Pop Area
WA Seattle 50 60 20 30
Spokane 30 40 10 20
OR Portland 40 50 10 10
Eugene 20 30 25 5
2005 2006
WA Seattle 50 60
Spokane 30 40
OR Portland 40 50
Eugene 20 30
Current
Desired
Mixing Dynamic and Static Columns
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Stepped or Block grouping
Pivot
Custom
Subtotals
Non-pivot
columns
Nested controls Multi-Pivot
Custom
Headers
Highly flexible layout options
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Most Flexible with Multiple Layout Targets
Render to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, XML, TIFF…
Support diverse industry and regional layout requirements
Enable pixel perfect reports with interactivity and animation
High resolution printing
Report Builder Word
HTML
Excel
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Chart Examples
Multiple Chart Areas
Calculated Series
Strip lines
Multiple Legends
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Gauge
2 Main Gauge Types
Radial and Linear
Scenarios
Typically bound to a single or a few data points
(value, target, goal, etc.)
Perfect for Analysis Services KPIs
Stand-alone or embedded in a tablix (bullet graph)
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Tablix Visualizations: Sparklines & Data Bars
Sparklines
“Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Tufte
Automatic axis alignment. All charts can have the same data points, regardless of source data
Can be converted into full charts to support additional small multiple scenarios
Data Bars
Usually depicts a single value in a cell
Min and Max are automatically determined, but are configurable
Sparklines Data Bars
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Tablix Visualization: Indicators
Icons used to depict the status against a value, goals or a trend
Report authors can create their own sets or choose from several pre-configured sets
Colors, Icon and Size can be changed based on data.
Automatic support for comparing each member of a group against siblings
Can also be placed inside gauges
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Support for SQL Spatial
Integration with Virtual Earth tiles
Data Grouping Equal intervals, equal distribution, optimal, user-defined
Multiple Map layers