HOW TO ENSURE YOUR MICROSOFT BI PROJECT IS A SUCCESS!

..and how to avoid ship wrecks like this one…

What is BI thing we all want? Reporting? Cubes? Big Data? Data Science?

A Series of fundamentals Useful data extraction Temporal Context Data description (knowledge extraction) Correct tooling

Useful data extraction In Place reporting Real Time vs Real Enough time Data Warehousing and ETL CRISP - Cross Industry Standard for

Data Mininghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Industry_Standard_Process_for_Data_Mining

Temporal context Past (reporting) Present (monitoring) Future (predictive analytics)

Data descriptionAutomatic data extractionStructured vs unstructured

Manual metadata inputData mashupsModelling

Correct tooling Operational/Prescriptive Reporting Analytical Reporting Dashboards Predictive analytics Pattern Matching

Principles First, Tactics Second

The conundrum

Business

The Forrester Wave™: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2014

Minimum Viable Product

Dashboard Demonstration

The State of the World

SQL Server Data ToolsPower View

Power Query

Power Q&A

Excel Services

PerformancePoint Services

PowerPivot for SharePoint

Power BIPerformancePoint

SharePoint Mashup

On Premises Cloud

Azure VMs

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLYONE DOES NOT SIMPLY

RETURN HIS RAW DATA FROM THE DATABASE RETURN HIS RAW DATA FROM THE DATABASE

Data Marts

Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)

Middleware Server(s)

DataWarehouse

StorageDesign and Visualization

Data Cubes and Tabular Models

E

T

L

Reporting Server(s)

BI and Designer Clients

Source data

E

SQL Server DBSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

SharePoint (with)•Excel Services

•PowerPivot for SharePoint

•SSRS SharePoint Mode

•PerformancePoint

SQL Server DB

StorageDesign and Visualization

SQL Server Analysis Services

Multidimensional and Tabular modes

L

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Excel

SQL Data Tools

Report Builder

3rd party tools

ETL

E

T

Source data

Worksheets

Tabular Data Model (xVelocity)

Pivot Charts and Tables

Power View

(Analytic reports)

Power Map

(Geospatial and time series data)

Power Pivot

(Model design)

Power Query (ETL)

Power Pivot Import (EL)

Power Pivot Worksheets

•Pivot Tables and Charts

•Power View

Data Marts and other

Data Cubes and Tabular Models

Standard Worksheets

•Pivot Tables and Charts

PerformancePoint Reports

•Analytic Charts and Grids•Decomposition trees

SQL Server Reporting Services Reports

•Standard

•Power View

PerformancePoint Scorecards and KPIs