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1 Microsoft’s BI i dag Med vekt på SQL Server 2008

Future Directions Wild speculations about a possible future

Q&A

2 Microsoft BI An Integrated Offering DELIVERY

SharePoint Server

Excel Analytic Reports DashboardsWorkbooks Views Scorecards Plans

END USER TOOLS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS Excel PerformancePoint Server

BI PLATFORM SQL Server SQL Server Reporting Services Analysis Services

SQL Server RDBMS

SQL Server Integration Services Intelligent Data Platform

Deliver Relevant Drive actionable Integrate Your Data Reports insights

• Consolidate and • Author extensive • Build enterprise-scale cleanse your data reports analytical solutions virtually any accommodating any • Extend with source reporting need comprehensive and • Predictable response • Manage and scale predictive capabilities across growing reporting workloads of • Reach every user volumes of data any size and drive actionable • Simplified • Deliver intuitive insight management of your reports to every user data warehouse in the format and location they prefer Data Warehousing and Integration Services 2008

Scale and Manage large number of Enhanced Partitioning users and data Improved Query performance on large DW Query Optimizations tables Queries Optimized for data warehousing Data Compression scenarios Increase I/O performance with efficient and Resource Governor cost effective data storage Manage concurrent workloads of ad-hoc Persistent Lookups queries, reporting and analysis Integrate growing volumes of data Change Data Capture Optimize your ETL performance by identifying data in your largest tables MERGE SQL Statement Reduce the data load volumes by capturing operational changes in data Data Profiling Simplify your and data processing Profile your information to identify dirty data Reporting Services 2008

New Report Designer

Enhanced Data Visualization

New Flexible Report Layout

Scalable Report Engine

IIS Agnostic Report Deployment

New Word Rendering

Improved Excel Rendering

New End User Design Experience Analysis Services 2008

Innovative Cube Designer

Best Practice Design Alerts

Enhanced Dimension Design

Enhanced Aggregation Design

New Subspace Computations

MOLAP Enabled Write-Back

Enhanced Back-Up Scalability

New Resource Monitor

Execution Plan Analysis Services 2008

Engine and algorithm improvements Enable better prediction and insight Enhanced Time Series Support Enhanced Mining Structures Split data into training and testing partitions Querying against structure data Filter data when building models Build incompatible models in a structure Cross-validation Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 Deliver a compelling end-user experience Bring data mining to a new, and much larger audience

10.30-11.30 Neste generasjons datavarehus med SQL Server 2008 Vi ser på de nyhetene som gir reell verdi for utviklere og administratorer. Hvilke endringer kommer i Data Engine, Integration Services og Analysis Services som du bare må vite om i forhold til datavarehus og Business Intelligence. Tommy Strandvold, Platon 11.30-12.30 Lunsj 12.30-13.30 Master Data Management Hvordan skaffe seg kontroll over masterdata som gjenbrukes på tvers av systemer? Finn ut hva Microsoft MDM er og hvordan du kan bruke det til å øke datakvaliteten, få mulighet til å flytte vedlikeholdet av datastrukturer til forretningssiden uten å miste kontrollen og redusere kostnader. Frank Olav Estensen, Affecto 13.30-13.45 Pause 13.45-14.45 Hard Core Reporting Services Vi går i dybden på Reporting Services i SQL 2008 og ser på hva som er endret og hvilke nye muligheter som byr seg. SharePoint integrasjon, Report Builder 2008, Dundas teknologi, Excel/Word integrasjon, ’Tablix’ og arkitektur er noe av det vi vil snakke om. Christian Nordbakk, Objectware 14.45-15.00 Pause 15.00-16.00 Excel 2007 som din analytiske arbeidsflate Med Excel 2007 er det ingen grenser for hvor avansert analyse du kan tilby dine brukere. Vi ser på hvordan konkrete utfordringer løses med bruk av DM Add-in fra Microsoft og hvordan Excel kan utvides med andre add-ins for tyngre statistisk analyse. Vi viser eksempler som vil beskrive de muligheter som ligger innebygd i Excel verktøy. Alberto Guillen, Capgemini 11 PerformancePoint v.next SQL v.next ”Office 14” Client: Excel, Visio, … Server: MOSS, Excel Services, … Services SSDS [Cloud based]

But what is the vision and the master plan ? Empowering employees while maintaining alignment to company goals and strategy Local Strategy Consistent Compliance Innovative Decision Driven Measurement & Risk Organization Making Business & Rewards Management

Empowered Aligned

Formally Developed Informally Developed

Performance Management Consistent corporate definitions, KPIs Corporate policies & processes

Contextual & accountable Corporate Scope Corporate

“Self-Service” BI Easy discovery of data Simple, intuitive tools Ad-hoc

Creative & agile Personal Scope Personal Formally Developed Informally Developed

Performance

Management Corporate Scope Corporate

“Self-Service” BI Personal Scope Personal Formally Developed Informally Developed Performance

Management

Corporate Scope Corporate Personal Scope Personal “Self-Service” BI Formally Developed Informally Developed

Spread-marts Corporate Scope Corporate

IT Backlog Personal Scope Personal Formally Developed Informally Developed

Alignment (SQL)

Performance Management (Office – Spread-marts

PPS) Corporate Scope Corporate

Self-Service BI IT Backlog (Office Excel/SharePoint)

Personal Scope Personal Empowerment (SQL/Office) Personal BI Built by me, for me, used only by me

Team BI Built by someone on the team, for the team’s use Organizational BI Built and maintained by IT, for use across the company Empowered BI Continuum Aligned Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI My Context Our Context The Organization’s Immediate, content BI Content managed by a Context created by me for me, server, team context with Establishes corp. context for personal and team BI, content loosely coupled to the loose coupling to the is abstracted and reusable, high team context, it’s a organization and its goals scalability and security, document in the end… and objectives business process centric Aligned Empowered

Corporate BI Team BI Personal BI The Organization’s Context Our Context My Context

Establishes corp. context for BI Content managed by a Immediate, content created personal and team BI, content server, team context with loose by me for me, loosely is abstracted and reusable, high coupling to the organization and coupled to the team context, scalability and security, its goals and objectives it’s a document in the end… business process centric Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI Spreadsheet Analysis Data entry and report viewing Publish and Share Information Aggregate Plans and Forecasts Synchronize and Align Goals and Tasks Consolidate Results Communicate our Status Understand Variances and Take Corrective Action Content Unification

Microsoft SharePoint® Server Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Microsoft SharePoint PerformancePoint™ Server Server

Data-Layer Unification Microsoft SQL Server™ Integration Services Analysis Services Reporting Services MOSS 2007 / FAST ESP Integration Today

Webs Web Service Search Front End Search Tuning and Statistics Forms Web Service SiteData Web Service Lists Web Service

SharePoint .Net Search API Web Service

Documents Queries Tuning

Search Results Statistics Win Auth Proxy

Meta Data, Security Access Module Management Web Services Security Info, SharePoint 2007 & References Connector

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