what’s new in reporting services 2008 r2 donald.farmer@microsoft.com

What’s New in Reporting Services 2008 R2

donald.farmer@microsoft.com

SQL Server 2008 R2

First half of 2010

Aligned with Office 2010

Focused on Business Intelligence

End UserFlexibility & Power

ITInsight & Oversight

Managed Self Service

End UserFlexibility & Power

ITInsight & Oversight

Managed Self Service

Collaboration

Self Service Report Authoring

Productive tools

Re-use existing reports

Publish for other users and IT

Collaboration

“Grab and Go”

Shared Component Library

THE REPORT COMPONENT LIBRARYDemo

Self Service Analysis

Self Service Reportin

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PowerPivotReportin

g Services

Introducing PowerPivot PowerPivot add-in

for Excel PowerPivot add-in

for SharePoint

Business users do not understand

databases

Business users do understand

reports

Reports as data sources

Rendered as Atom FeedsAssociated with PowerPivotRefreshed from the server

Reports as data sources for users

You know where to find them

You know what they mean

You already have access

Reports as data sources for IT

Many are already available

Security is already configuredUsers already understand them

PowerPivot as a data source

Uses PowerPivot for SharePointWorkbooks look like simple cubes

Connect with a URL

Query with MDX

REPORTS AS DATA SOURCESDemo

Report Viewer

Refreshed viewer look and feelSmoother navigation with AJAX

Report Manager

Improved workflow

Manage reports without preview

Improved user interface

Rich presentations

Maps

Sparklines

KPIs

Data Bars

MAPS IN ACTIONDemo

Map Features

Use with SQL Spatial

Use with Virtual Earth tiles

Data Grouping

Multiple Map layers

Sparklines

“Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Tufte

Automatic axis alignment.

Convert to full charts

Data bars

Depicts a single value in a cell.

Min-Max set automatically

Highly configurable

KPIsKey Performance Indicators

Icons show status, goals or a trend.

Change appearance with data

KPIsKey Performance Indicators

Pre-configured or custom sets

Automatically compare groups

Also supported by Gauges

Other improvementsLookup functions

Aggregate of aggregates

New Data sources: SQL Server “Madison”, SQL Azure

Reset page number on groups

Expression-based page breaks

Excel worksheet tab naming

Session variables

Renderer-dependent layout

Bottom-to-top text rotation

Aggregates of Aggregates

Average Monthly Sales• =Avg(Sum(Sales, "Month"), "Year")

Visual Totals• Aggregates respect group filters

Aggregates of Aggregates

6 200Total

2 2Jan

4 4Feb2009

Sales (filtered) Sales

Excel Renderer Worksheet Names

Reset Page Number on Group

Reset page number for each new group

Get current page & total page for each group

Bottom-to-Top Text Rotation

Renderer-based expressionsControl layout for specific renderers

Disable drillthrough for static renderers

Enable drillthrough for interactive renderers

Renderer-based expressions

Dynamic page breaksUse expressions to detect the rendererDynamically disable/enable page breaksIf exporting to Excel, disable page breaks

SQL Server 2008 R2

Public CTP, November 2009

Release, first half of 2010

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