Microsoft BI Platform Overview

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1 Microsoft BI Platform Overview

2 Introduction Dave DuVarney, Independent BI Consultant Working with Microsoft BI Technologies for 8+ years Part of the Microsoft Ascend Program Author: Professional SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 & 2005

3 Agenda How Microsoft BI Came to Be Microsoft BI and Gartner Current Platform Offerings Denali Release Quick Highlight

4 How Microsoft BI Came to Be History and timeline of acquisitions Date Company Technology 11/1/1996 Panorama Software Sys-On- OLAP Platform Line 4/26/2004 Active End User Reporting 6/6/2006 ProClarity Ad Hoc Query Tool 5/9/2007 SoftArtisans End User Reporting 6/7/2007 Stratature Master Data Management 3/31/ Degree Software End User Reporting 9/16/2008 DATAllegro Massively Parallel Database

5 BI Platform Components Gartnerdefines a BI platform as a software platform that delivers: Integration Information Delivery Analysis BI Infrastructure Reporting OLAP Metadata Management Dashboards Interactive Visualization Development Tools Ad HocQuery Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Collaboration Microsoft Office Integration Search-based BI Scorecards

6 Gartner Strengths Steadily Gaining Market Share Lower Pricing Broadly Adopted Development Environment Success in larger deployments User of OLAP functionality (* double) Strong Tie to Enterprise Collaboration Cautions Multiproduct Complexity BI Vision Focused on IT Lack of Packaged BI / ERP Offering Product Interdependencies No Single Metadata Layer

7 Aligned to Gartner BI Platform Definition Integration Information Delivery Analysis BI Infrastructure BUSINESS Reporting USER EXPERIENCE OLAP Metadata Management Dashboards Interactive Visualization BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY INFRASTRUCTURE Development Tools Ad HocQuery Predictive Modeling and Data Mining DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BI PLATFORM Collaboration Microsoft Office Integration Scorecards Search-based BI

8 Where They Are Now DELIVERY SharePoint Server Reports Dashboards Excel Workbooks Analytic Views Scorecards PowerPivot Excel END USER TOOLS PowerPivot DATA PLATFORM SQL Server SQL Server Reporting Services Analysis Services SQL Server DBMS SQL Server Integration Services StreamInsight Events

9 SQL Server DBMS DW Options SQL Server SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse SQL Reference Server Parallel Architecture Data Warehouse (PDW) 4 Microsoft to 48 TB DW Appliance Rapid Massively Deployment Parallel Processing David Dewitt (UW Madison) 10 to 100+ TB

10 SQL Server Analysis Services Microsoft s OLAP Solution Multidimensional Model for Slice and Dice Multidimensional Expressions Aggregation Query Processing Yahoo Multi Terabyte

11 SQL Server Integration Services ETL Tool formerly named DTS Improved Workflow and Data Flow Engines Improved Configuration and Deployment Extensible Framework

12 SQL Server Master Data Services Microsoft s MDM Solution Versioning and Workflow Hierarchy Management Master Data Hub

13 SQL Server Reporting Services Report Design Environment Numerous Data Sources Supported Push Reporting ATOM Data Feeds End User Reporting

14 SharePoint 2010 Performance Point Excel Services Reporting Services Fast Search

15 PowerPivot In-memory Data Analysis Free Add-On for Excel 2010 Millions of Rows Integrate with SharePoint

16 Where They Are Going The upcoming version of SQL Server is code named Denali Scheduled Release: Major BI Changes: Apollo and VertiPaq BI Semantic Model Project Crescent SSIS Enhancements Data Quality Services

17 Denali Apollo and VertiPaq Apollo Colomnstore Indexes VertiPaq In-memory processing Compression algorithms What it means: Huge storage savings Increased calculation performance ROLAP

18 Denali - BI Semantic Model

19 Denali Crescent Data Visualization PowerPoint Story board Browser Based Experience

20 Wrap-Up

21 Contact Information Dave DuVarney Mobile: