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Building Business Intelligence Solutions for SharePoint
Bryon Brewer, PresidentProject Consults, Inc.
• Session: Building Business Intelligence Solutions for SharePoint
• Speaker: Bryon Brewer– President at Project Consults, Inc.– Over 10 years consulting– Many major (120,000+ users) and smaller
SharePoint deployments– PMP, MCP, ITIL, Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified
Scrum Master (CSM)
Welcome!
Building Business Intelligence SolutionSharePoint 2010
Agenda
Business Intelligence (BI) Primer
Performance Point (DEMO)
Visio Graphic Services (DEMO)
BI Tools in SharePoint 2010
Excel Services (DEMO)
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SQL Reporting Services (DEMO)3
Questions / Wrap-up7
• Any information that pertains to the history, current status or future projections of a business organization
• Systems that provide directed background data and reporting tools to support and improve the decision-making process
• What information do decision makers need in order to make effective business critical decisions?
Business Intelligence PrimerWhat is Business Intelligence?
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Business Intelligence PrimerThe Three Stages of Business Intelligence
1. Organizing, cleansing and collecting data
2. Delivering the data in a consistent and appropriate, meaningful and easy-to-use format
3. Using the data to make effective decisions
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Business Intelligence PrimerStage 1: Organizing Data
• Use Business Intelligence Studio (BIDS) to create SSAS databases
• Cubes: The basic unit of storage and analysis in Analysis Services
• Dimensions: a category for analyzing business data, ex: States, Cities
• Measures: column in a table that you'd like to analyze, ex: sales
OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)Pre-calculates and stores aggregates in SSAS databases
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Business Intelligence PrimerStage 2: Delivering Data
• A team effort – need at least business analyst with a good knowledge of data warehouse
• Design of dashboards critical – consult a web designer if possible
• Establish governance rules upfront – only stored procedures, all connections in libraries, etc.
• Enlist business power users to manage rights of BI objects
• Test user acceptance at draft stage
Turn your data into information you can act on
BI Tools in SharePoint 2010
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BI Tools in SharePoint 2010Get more out of the products you own
Business User Experience
Data Infrastructure and BI PlatformAnalysis ServicesReporting ServicesIntegration ServicesMaster Data ServicesData MiningData Warehousing
Business Collaboration PlatformDashboards & ScorecardsExcel ServicesWeb based forms & workflowCollaborationSearchContent ManagementLOB data integration
Familiar User Experience Self-Service access & insightData exploration & analysisPredictive analysisData visualizationContextual visualization
Business Collaboration Platform
Data Infrastructure & BI Platform
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BI Tools in SharePoint 2010Architecture
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BI Tools in SharePoint 2010SharePoint Brings it ALL Together
SharePoint
Web Apps
SQL Analysis Services
SQL Reporting Services
Excel Spreadsheets
BCS – other Business
Data
SQL PowerPivot
Perf Point Dashboards
Visio Diagrams
SharePoint Data
Surface SSRS reports through SharePoint Integrated Mode
DEMO
SQL Reporting Services
Flexible, easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs)
DEMO
Performance Point Services
Makes it simple to use, share, secure, and manage Microsoft Office Excel workbooks as interactive reports in a consistent way throughout the enterprise
DEMO
Excel Services
Application that lets users share and view Microsoft Visio Web drawings. The service also enables data-connected Microsoft Visio 2010 Web drawings to be refreshed and updated from various data sources
DEMO
Visio Graphics Services
Questions?
Q&A Time
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Session Wrap-Up
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