Presentation for SQL Saturday #417 - Introduction to the modern BI stack of Microsoft. Demos included ETL using SSIS, Data Warehousing, traditional UDM with SSAS, Reporting with SSRS, Excel samples and Power BI

1. First foot in the world of BI
A walk through of Microsoft BI stack
By : Thuru
SQL Server Saturday : 06th June 2015
http://thuruinhttp.wordpress.com
@thurutweets

2. What and Why ?
Any sort of a platform / system that gives some meaningful information
out of the data could arguably be considered as a BI platform / system.
Simply because information has value, and in the elaborated scenarios
it allows to hindsight, oversight, insight and foresight business values.

3. BI in real business world
• We can categorize BI under different streams :
• Based on the purpose – (operational, analytical, functional, reporting..)
• Based on the audience – (cooperate, departmental, personal)
• Based on the complexity – (enterprise, self service)
• Based on latency – (real time, near real time)
• Based on the context – (on demand, in-context, ad hoc)
• Modern BI 2.0 types – (alerts, notifications, natural language, machine learning, big data)

4. Introduction UDM
• Data Warehouses
• ETL
• Multi dimensional models
• Reporting / Visualizations

5. Data Warehouse
• Two main schemas
• Star
• Snow Flakes

6. UDM suites to Enterprises
• Large organizations have several disparate systems
• Thus they require a complex ETL process for a consolidated BI
• This requires Data Warehousing
• Most large organizations have more than one Data Warehouse
• Often these projects contain business value matrix and defined KPIs of the organization
• Pool of BI engineers involve in the development of the project

7. Exploring Multi dimensional model
• Demo : Structure of Data Warehouses (star schema and snow flakes schema)
• Demo : SSIS for ETL
• Demo : Create a Cube using SSAS
• Demo : Create reports using SSRS

8. Advance concepts of Microsoft UDM
• Aggregation level
• Storage models
• Caching model

9. Self Servicing BI
• Excel Features
• Power BI Designer Preview
• Power Map

10. What else ?
• Tabular Model
• SharePoint with and BI
• Office 365 and BI
• Azure HDInsight
• Azure ML

11. Q & A