5/23/2016
Microsoft
Business Intelligence 2016
More Love for Your Data
About me
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I’m just a girl that loves data
Independent consultant
Pass Volunteer: WIT, Program Committee, Regional Mentor, Co-Chapter
Leader and Organizer for SQLSatNash
Background from .edu means l have experience doing lots of things
Dog mom to 3 hounds
I am a food snob: wine, bourbon, whiskey and scotch lover. I love to try new
things!
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All the BUZZ
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First it was Power BI, but was limited to inside Excel
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Now Power BI and SSRS are working together!
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Then Power BI: Desktop, mobile apps
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Gartner positions Microsoft as a leader in BI and
Analytics Platforms
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What will we cover?
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New features for SQL Sever 2016 RC3: SSRS, Mobile
Report Publisher & Report Builder
Power BI, Mobile BI
Hopefully a few quick demos and previews
NOT being Covered: R integrations, SSAS, SSIS and Server changes
+ At the end we can take a more in depth look at how some of these things work/look.
NEW Web Portal (Report Manager)
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Report Manager is gone, now refered to as Web Portal
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Can create KPIs on the home screen
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Sleek & Sexy, less like a file share
You can launch Report Builder to & Mobile Report Publisher to
create new reports (datasets & sources)
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KPIs
Add KPI right to SSRS Web Portal
Now you can add related
content to KPI
Can now do data Aggregation
Extended trend set support
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Customizing your view
• Filtered View for the Browse tab
• FAVORITES TAB
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Branding
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You can download a sample branding package to get an idea of what controls each
area.
Contains 2 files: colors.json, metadata.xml and you can add an optional logo.png
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Mobile Report Publisher
•You can publish reports to SSRS
and view them on your mobile
device
•You can use local data source
(files) or connect to SSRS and use a
dataset
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Quick Demo – Mobile Report Publisher
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Place viz on grid
Add Data
Select SSRS
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Open Datasets – select data
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Add tile, save to server
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Update formatting
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Power BI now with more MOBILE
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Power BI Mobile available for iOS, Android & Windows 10 phones
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KPIs are visible, even when in folders
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Can connect to Power BI (hosted) & SSRS
Offline use – Caching is available for Power BI Dashboards in i0S
and Android
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Recorded
Power BI Mobile Demo
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SSRS to Power BI
Now able to pin visualizations in SSRS reports to Power BI Dashboard
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Must “turn on” at the server level in Reporting Services Configuration
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In Report Manager (Web Portal) –My Settings > Power BI > Signin
You must have a Dashboard already set up in the Power BI site
When you run a report there is a
A subscription is made on SSRS
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Rendering and Export
PowerPoint (NEW)
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Downloads as a plain .pptx
• You can drag and drop slide into presentation and it will take on formatting
• You can cut and paste individual items onto slides
• Also can be used in URL rendering
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BYE BYE BYE! Active X Control
PDF improved
• Options based
on configurations
• Will print to pdf
• Will download pdf
• You can still disable client side printing
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Custom Parameter Pane
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New Visualizations
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High DPI
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Report Builder for SQL Server 2016 supports High DPI
(Dots per Inch) scaling and devices.
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Subscription Updates
•Enable disable (before delete)
•Add a description
•Change subscription owner
•Admins can create a shared
account to be use for file share sub
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Report Builder
gets an update
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Coming soon, like yesterday 
Enterprise Readiness
• Role level security
Deepened integration w/Excel
• PowerBI
More Intelligent Data Exploration
• Q&A
• Cortana
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2016 Features
Enterprise
New in 2016
•Mobile Reports and KPIs
•Mobile Report Publisher
•Power BI apps
Enterprise & Standard New in 2016
•Integration Services Azure data source (Hadoop connectors)
•Pin SSRS report items to Power BI
Standard
New FROM Enterprise
•Multidimensional DAX queries
•BI Semantic Model for Tabular
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June 1, 2016
• General
Availibility
• Developer Edition
is FREE to everyone
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What does this all mean?
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Resources
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Power BI -- https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
RC1 -- https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2016/03/18/sql-server-2016rc1-whats-new-in-reporting-services/
Branding SSRS -- https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2016/03/20/howto-create-a-custom-brand-package-for-reporting-services-with-sql-server-2016/
SandDance -- https://sanddancehome.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=4191
Power BI publisher for Excel -- https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/pin-fromexcel/
Custom Visuals -- https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/
Mobile Report Publisher -- https://www.microsoft.com/enus/download/details.aspx?id=50400
Report Builder -- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51615
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