SharePoint 2011 as a Business Intelligence Platform for On-Premise and Cloud Data

Adis Jugo, Managing Consultant, PlanB. GmbH

Agenda• History of BI in SharePoint• What is new with SharePoint 2010• How to do BI with SharePoint

History of BI with SharePoint• Where it used to be:

• Display Reporting Services Reports in web parts

• Reporting Services in SharePoint-integrated mode

• Simple KPI lists (now called status lists)• Excel Services: dynamic Excel Reports in a

web browser

What is new with BI in SharePoint 2010

• Now also directly integrated:• New site template “Business Intelligence

Center”• PerformancePoint Services (PPS) 2010 is

the next generation corporate performance-management application from Microsoft

• Now a SharePoint 2010 service application• End-users can create KPIs and scorecards themselves• Interactive reports and analysis in the web

Who does what?• IT

• PPS: Install and configure• PPS: Create and manage data sources

• Power-users and developers• Create Excel Tables and PowerPivots• Create reports• Configure PPS elements / Publish dashboards

• End-Users• Browse Excel Services and published PPS-

dashboards in SharePoint and interact with them

Excel Services• Excel is THE most used BI tool in the world• Dozens of Excel Workbooks are circulating

around the companies• Publish whole or a part of the Excel Sheet

to the SharePoint – reuse your knowledge• Communicate with Excel Services (API)

• EXCEL SERVICES

PerformancePoint Services• Now part of the SharePoint Server 2010

(Enterprise Edition)• Connect to the different sources of data• Dashboard Designer

PerformancePoint Services• New site type: BI Center

What is what in PPS

UseCase• We are organizing a conference• Data Structure in the SQL Server:

Speakers, Sessions, Visitors, Ratings• Dashboard Designer:

• PERFORMANCE POINT SERVICES

PerormancePoint API

DLL Name Use from SDK Perspective

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Client.dll

Contains classes for working with PPS objects found in the PPS Content List type, reports, scorecards, filters, dashboards, and indicators

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Common.dll Contains miscellaneous helper classes

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.DataSourceProviders.Standard.dll

Contains classes for working with data sources

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.ScorecardsScript.dll Contains classes to help manage PPS Web Parts

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Server.dll Contains classes for creating custom filters and reports

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.ServerCommon.dll

Contains proxies to interact with the PPS service application

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.ServerRendering.dll

Contains classes for rendering controls on a dashboard page

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store.dll Contains helper classes for working with repository items

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.WebControls.dllContains classes for supporting connection interfaces and for rendering Web Parts

UseCase• We are organizing a conference• Data Structure in the Azure SQL Server:

Speakers, Sessions, Visitors, Ratings• Data Synchronized to the SharePoint

through BCS• Dashboard Designer: connect to the local

data

Beyond BI Center• Custom development

– Silverlight– ECMA Script

• UseCase:Visualize visitors through the BING MAPS

Conference Data – Azure SQL

Conference Data - BCS

• Create Silverlight WebPart to visualize the visitors origin through the BING Maps

Conclusion• Possibilities for business users are

enormous• …if they have the SharePoint Enterprise CAL

• Self Service in SharePoint, now available for Performance Management• See PowerPivot for Excel 2010

• By all means a useful reporting portal!

Questions?• Thank you!

• @adisjugo

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