how ssrs, datazen, power bi and excel fit...

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How SSRS, Datazen, Power BI

and Excel fit together?

Martin Záruba, BI Consultant

martin.zaruba@adastragrp.com

linkedin.com/in/zarubamartin

@martin_sql

Business Intelligence

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SharePointPower Pivot Gallery, Power View

ExcelData Mining

Azure ML

Analytics Platform System(APS)

Deliver right information to all users, in a way that is highly relevant and useful to each, at right time

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Microsoft’s Vision for Business

Intelligence

We intend to standardize reporting content types across

Microsoft on-premises, cloud and hybrid systems. Our

reporting path forward focuses on four report types.

Microsoft BI Report Types

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Interactive reports

Paginated reports

Spreadsheets

Mobile reports

On-Premises & Cloud Symmetry

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What‘s new in SQL Server 2016

Reporting Services

New Web Portal 1/2

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• Modern Web Portal

replaces old Report

Manager

• Content organization:

– KPIs

– Mobile Reports

– Paginated Reports

– Power BI Desktop Reports

– Excel Workbooks

– Data Sets

– Data Sources

– Resources

• HTML 5 rendering engine

• Supported Browsers

– Edge, Internet Explorer 10+,

Chrome, Firefox, Safari

New Web Portal 2/2

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• Custom Branding

• Favorites

• Search for reports, KPI

and other files

• Support for Sharepoint

2016

• Report Embedding (mobile

and paginated reports)

Paginated Reports

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• Custom parameters pane

• New chart types Tree Map

and Sunburst

• New default styles for

tables, charts, gauges,

maps, and other data

visualizations

• Pin gauges, charts,

images to Power BI cloud

service

• Export to PowerPoint

• Print doesn’t require

ActiveX

• Development tools

– Report Builder

– SQL Server Data Tools

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Mobile Reports (Datazen)

Mobile Reports

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• Previously Datazen now

Mobile Reports and KPIs

in SQL Server 2016

Reporting Services

• Interactive dashboards

optimalized for mobile

devices

• Datazen Data View

replaced with Shared Data

Set

• Extensive Drill-Downs and

Drill-Throughs

• Ability to link (drill-through)

from a mobile report to:

– Another mobile report, or

– To a custom URL (e.g.:

paginated report)

Mobile Report Publisher

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• Quick creation of

dashboards that scale well

to any screen size

• Easily create beautiful

visualizations and KPIs

with a touch-based

designer

• Connect to Report Server

to access data sources

• Publish for access by

others

• Supported Operating

System:

– Windows 7, Windows 8.1,

Windows 10

– .NET Framework 4.5

NativeApps forAll Platforms

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• Only one mobile

application: Power BI

• Connect to Report Server

• Access published

dashboards and KPIs -

online and offline

• Provide premium

experiences across all

platforms, device types

and form factors

• Available for download

from the respective app

stores

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DEMO

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Analytical reports and charts (Excel)

Interactive reports (Power BI)

Power BI architecture

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Unlock your Excel data

Analyze data and publish your workbooks to Power BI

Create Power BI Content

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Connect to data and build reports for Power BI

What is Power BI Desktop ?

Interactive Reports

Analyse and Share Power BI Content

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Connect to data anywhere (on-premises, cloud or

both of them)

What is Power BI Service ?

Power BI provides many useful features and capabilities

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Features and capabilitiesUpdates: weekly (Power BI Service) / monthly (Power BI Desktop)

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DEMO

Connect to your on-premises and cloud data

• Deploy quickly with a hybrid BI solution

‒ manage and secure data on-premises with SQL Server Analysis Services

• Scheduled refresh

‒ regardless of where data lives

‒ SaaS data sources (automatic)

‒ schedule refreshes for on-premise data sources with Personal / Enterprise Gateway

• Live connectivity

‒ data is updated as user interacts with dashboard or report, optimized query performance for interactive data exploration

‒ to existing on-premise sources via Analysis Services

‒ On-premise SQL Server, SAP HANA, Oracle, Teradata

‒ to Azure SQL Database, SQL Data Warehouse, Spark on HDInsight

• Real-time dashboards

‒ using the Power BI REST API or

‒ with built-in Azure Stream Analytics integration

Keep all your data current, Live Query, DirectQuery & Scheduled Data Refresh

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