View from the Top: SQL 2012 'Denali' and SharePoint 2010

View from the Top:SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence with SQLServer 2012 “Denali”Best of SharePoint Conference 2011November 2011Chris McNulty

Chris McNulty• SharePoint Strategic Product Manager at Quest Software• 10+ years with SharePoint• 20 years consulting (led KMA SharePoint practice) and financial services technology (Santander, John Hancock/Manulife, GMO, State Street)• MBA in Investment Management from Boston College• Write and speak often on Microsoft IW technologies (blogs & books)• MCSE MCTS MSA MVTSP MCC• Hiking, cooking, playing guitar, colonial history, photography• My family: Hayley, three kids (17, 7, 5) and my dog Stan 3 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Agenda• Business Intelligence in SharePoint Today• SQL Server 2012 Overview• SQL Server Reporting Services• Power View – Crescent• Always On• Upgrade paths• Conclusion 4 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Goals for BI Design• Answering the known questions about our business• Allowing users to self- discover patterns and answers to questions we haven’t yet been asked

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SharePoint BI Evolution Custom Performance Solutions Point • Mapping Enabling • Dashboards • Web Parts technologies • Etc. • Analysis Services • Business Excel Connectivity Services Services • Excel Web • SQL Reporting Access Services Chart • Pivot • PowerPivot Web Part • Azure DataMarket 8 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)• “Code free” integrated solution (with SQL 2008 R2) • (can also use Business Intelligence Developer Studio)• SharePoint integrated mode preferred• Export contents to Excel, Word, etc.• Reuse in SharePoint and Performance Point Dashboards• Use when some reports are printed, multipage, etc. 9 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

PowerPivot• “Project Gemini” – host 1- 10MM row datasets• Excel and SharePoint components• Data doesn’t live in spreadsheet• Released with SQL Server 2008 R2 but doesn’t explicitly require the R2 Engine 10 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Recap: Microsoft and SQL 2008 R2• Invested heavily for Corporate BI Shared DataSets Report parts, Report part gallery New Visualizations: Map, gauge, sparkline, databar, KPI Ajax Report viewer• Cut scenarios Adhoc reporting Alerting 11 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

SQL Server Provides Rapid Data Exploration Only 28% of an organization has access to BI tools*Gartner, “Business Intelligence Purchase Drivers and Adoption Rates, 2009 Survey Results,” Bill Hostmann, Sept. 4, 2009 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

SharePoint/SQL 2012 BI PowerPivot • Power View SSRS Self-Service • Alerts Custom • Data Feeds Performance Solutions Point • Mapping Enabling • Dashboards • Web Parts technologies • Etc. • Analysis Services • Business Excel Connectivity Services Services • Excel Web • SQL Reporting Access Services Chart • Pivot • PowerPivot Web Part • Azure DataMarket 17 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Self Service Alerting – User Benefits Create data alerts from within reports • Users create alerts directly on the data they see in reports • Report authors control which data is available for alerting • Supports reports created in Report Builder or BI Development Studio (BIDS) Detect important data changes • Intuitive Alert Rules (greater than, before/after) • Easy to use scheduling (weekly, daily, monthly) • Relevant data included in Alert MessageSource: Data.gov - Data.gov and the Federal Government cannot vouch for the data or analysesderived from these data after the data have been retrieved from Data.gov. 18 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Self Service Alerting – IT Benefits Managed through SharePoint • Per site administration reduces IT burden • Fine grained authorization • Self-managed through SharePoint • IT Visibility & Control of user-defined alerts 19 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

New SSRS SharePoint Integration Benefits• SSRS SharePoint 2010 Shared Service • Hosted in SharePoint Shared Service App pool • SSRS catalog DBs are SharePoint Service App DBs • WCF and Claims based communication • PowerShell Cmdlets • Central Admin UI for all RS administration • ULS Logging integration • Built-in scale-out and load balancer• Report Performance Improvements • For reports in AJAX Viewer • Parity with Denali Native mode performance • Top SharePoint mode pain point • Small reports used to be 2-3 times slower: Fixed • Faster than 2008 R2 SharePoint mode ~ 30-60%• SQL Setup option for SSRS SharePoint service 20 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

SSRS SharePoint Integration Architecturefor SQL Server codenamed “Denali”Alert Designer SharePoint SharePoint Web Front App Server End SSRS Shared SSRS in Web Application Service ApplicationAlert Manager RS Add-in SSRS Shared Service Application SharePoint Config / Report Server Content DB Shared Service DB 21 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

SQL Server 2012 Power View Highly Visual Design Experience • Interactive, web-based authoring and sharing of information • Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns • Powerful data layout with banding, callout and small multiples visualizations Rich metadata-driven interactivity• Fully integrated with PowerPivot• Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying• Zero configuration highlighting and filtering• Animated trending and comparisons Presentation-ready at all times • Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into persuasive information • Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint • Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom session ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

PowerPivot for SharePointServer, Services, and Components SharePoint Farm c2wts Client WFE App Content Excel Calculation Excel Web Access SQL ServicesUser renders a Excel Calc Services Application Proxy MSOLAPworkbook TCP Excel Web Service HTTP Channel Data Sources PowerPivot Web PowerPivot Sys Svc Service Application Proxy PowerPivot System Service Analysis Services in VertiPaq Mode 26 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Introducing SQL Server AlwaysOn• Integrated, flexible, efficie AlwaysOn Availability nt high availability for Groups database protection mission critical business  Multi-Database Failover• High availability platform  Multiple Secondaries built for the future  Active Secondaries • On-Premise, Private and Public  Integrated HA Management Cloud AlwaysOn Failover Cluster• Comprehensive database Instances and instance-level instance level protection Multisite Clustering protection   Flexible Failover Policy  Improved Diagnostics  Built for consolidation scenarios 29 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Deployment Scenarios 2Disaster Recovery Target 1 2 Production Environment1 Primary Availability Replica Read-only Environment2 Secondary Availability Replica Backup 30 Stretch Cluster ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Availability Solutions AlwaysOn Failover Clustering Geo-clustering or Synchronous Database Mirroring RTO Log Shipping Backup/Restore RPOZero Seconds Minutes Hours D 31 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

In-Place Upgrade – Overview• Upgrades existing installation • On same machine and platform • Instance name remains • Old instance is removed • New shared components are installed• User data and configuration is preserved• Mostly automated process through Setup• Existing instance is intact as long as possible• Can upgrade to same edition or higher 34 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Don’t Fall!• CTP3 <> RTM!!!! • RC0 Available Now (http://bit.ly/s0DEsf)• Infrastructure • NOT FOR PRODUCTION!!!! • Must run SP2010 SP1 • Upgrade to PowerPivot v2 Excel • Incompatible with Project Server 2010 (for now!) SSAS Cubes• Alerts • Not intended for real-time notification • Structured Data Feeds• Power View • Requires PowerPivot v2• Always On • Not click-click-OK! 37 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Engineering Business SQL ServerConnectivity Performance Excel Reporting SSRS Alerts Pivot Power View Services Point Services Services (BCS) (SSRS) SQL Analysis Office Web SQL 2008 R2 Services Apps (OWA) Reporting Services SharePoint (SSRS) Integrated Integrated Secure Store SQL Server Power Pivot PowerPivot Silverlight Service 2012 v2 (BIDS for Excel Native Services Mode) SQL 2008 R2 Secure Store Enterprise Kerberos Service [optional] 38 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

BI Solutions in SharePoint 2010/SQL 2012 Large Datasets Self Service Visual Navigation Power View PowerPivot Pivot PerformancePoint Mapping SSRS Alerts SharePoint list KPI / Status Indicator SQL Reporting Chart Web Part Services Printing or Excel Services exporting Small Datasets 39 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Resources - General• From Microsoft: • SQL 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future- editions.aspx • Business Intelligence: http://www.microsoft.com/bi/ • SharePoint 2010 site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com • SharePoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx • BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/• From Quest • www.quest.com • SharePoint Community www.sharepointforall.com 40 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

Thank you…• Contact • Email chris.mcnulty@quest.com • Blog http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog • Also http://www.sharepointforall.com • Twitter: @cmcnulty2000 • LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcnulty• Upcoming: • Dec. 2011 – SPS South Florida, PSSPUG/Seattle, Gilbane Boston • Jan. 2011 – SPS Austin TX (Business Intelligence) 42 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved..

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