http://bit.ly/SQSummit En el último año el ecosistema de herramientas de visualización de Microsoft ha crecido, desarrollado y combinado entre sí. ¿Qué camino está tomando? ¿qué puedo hacer con Reporting Services que no pueda hacer con Power BI, Report Server o viceversa? Haremos un análisis de la característica que diferencian cada una, de forma muy rápida.

1. Report Server : Los nuevos mutantes
Víctor García Sánchez | BI Mentor | SolidQ | @atharky

2. Agenda
• Microsoft Reporting platforms
• Report types
• API REST 2.0
• SSRS 2017
• PBIRS March 2018

3. Demo environment
http://sqsummit18.ddns.net/bireports
user01
#SQSummit18

4. Microsoft reporting
platforms

6. What’s Power BI service

7. What’s SQL Server Report Server 2017
Classical On-Premise / IaaS
Reporting platform from SQL Server
SQL 2016
• New web portal
• Mobile Reporting (Datazen)
• HTML5
• …
SQL 2017
New
features
in 2017
Comments
with
attachments
DAX in
query
reporting
tool
API fully
OpenAPI
compliant
RESTful

8. What’s Power BI Report Server
 On-Premises / IaaS reporting platform
 Inherits all SSRS 2017 functionality
 Additional capabilities brought from Power BI
 PBIX handling and rendering
 Excel rendering (requires Office Online Server)
 Extends the SSRS API
Power BI Report Server is a superset of SQL Server Reporting Services

9. SOLIDQ 2018
Reporting platforms
Power BI (service)
- Premium licensing
- PRO licensing
Power BI Report Server
- Power BI Premium
- SQL Server 2012 Enterprise + SA
SQL Server Reporting Services 2017
- Enterprise
- Standard
Full featured:
+ Rich and modern visuals
+ Ad-hoc models design
+ Enhanced Self-service reporting
+ Advanced sharing and distribution content
+ Ready for mobile reporting
Almost requested features are available:
+ Rich and modern visuals
~ Ad-hoc models design
~ Enhanced Self-service reporting
- Some sharing and distribution content
+ Ready for mobile reporting
Few of the requested features are available:
- Visuals are old-fashioned
- Unable to create ad-hoc models
- Self-service reporting available
- Sharing (publish) and distribution
(subscriptions)
- Low development and delivery pace for
mobile reporting from Provider

10. Power BI Report Server
CREATE MANAGE CONSUME
Power BI Desktop
INTERACTIVE REPORTS
Microsoft Excel
ANALYTICAL REPORTS
Mobile Report Publisher
“Datazen”
MOBILE REPORTS
SQL Server
Report Builder
PAGINATED REPORTS
Report Designer in
SQL Server Data Tools
CLOUD
Power BI Service
ONE SET OF MOBILE APPS
SQL Server RS 2017
• Paginated Reports
• KPIs
• Mobile Reports
ON-PREMISES
• Power BI Desktop
• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI Desktop
• Microsoft Excel
• Mobile Reports **
• Paginated Reports **
Windows App
Android App
iOS App
SharePoint
Web Portal
Power BI Web Portal
Pin reports

11. SOLIDQ 2018
Report platforms: features comparison(1/2)
Feature/Capability
Publish and View Reports:
Power BI
Service
Power BI
Report
Server March
2018
SQL Server
2017 Reporting
Services
Publish and view RDL Coming soon
Publish and view PBIX (Power BI report)
Publish and view XLSX (Excel workbook)
Rendering of custom visuals utilized in a PBIX
Use of native mobile applications (iOS, Android, Windows)
APIs for embedding reports in a custom application
Data Sources and Data Refresh:
Power BI report rendering from imported data
Power BI report rendering from SSAS Live Connections
Power BI report rendering from DirectQuery
Data refresh schedule for Power BI imported datasets
Maximum size of an individual imported dataset 1GB* 1GB*
Reuse of imported Power BI datasets
(Analyze in Excel)
Reuse of shared datasets
(Reporting Services paginated and datazen reports only)**

12. SOLIDQ 2018
Report platforms: features comparison (2/2)
Create dashboard (compilation of visuals from one or more reports)
Pinning of certain visuals to a dashboard in the Power BI Service
Report editing in the Power BI Site
Q&A natural language queries
Data alerts
E-mail subscriptions (“subscribe”) for Power BI reports
E-mail subscriptions for RDL reports (Report server paginated reports)
Organizational content packs / Power BI Apps publishing
R integration
Get Insights (machine learning)
Additional Capabilities:
Feature/Capability
Power BI
Service
Power BI
Report
Server March
2018
SQL Server
2017 Reporting
Services

13. DEMO
Finding the differences

14. Report types

15. Report types
• RDL (classic SSRS style reports)Paginated
• RLDX (Datazen)
• PBIX (Power BI Desktop)Mobile
• PBIX (Power BI Desktop)Interactive
• XLSX (Excel)Analytical
Power BI
(Service)
SQL
Server
Reporting
Services
2017
Power BI
Report
Server

16. SOLIDQ 2018
Power BI reports
Visual richness and interactivity
Power BI
(Service)
Power BI
Report Server
SQL Server Reporting Services
2017
Datazen Paginated
Modern visuals built-in
Custom visuals
Cross-filtering / Cross-
highligting
Storytelling
Responsiveness
Specific layouts for
devices factor format
Excel
Coming soon
Coming soon

17. SOLIDQ 2018
Self-service reporting
Report authoring on
Desktop Tool
Report authoring on
Web Portal
Re-use existing
datasets
User friendly
Power BI reports
Power BI
(Service)
Power BI
Report Server
SQL Server Reporting Services
2017
Datazen PaginatedExcel
Combine distinct
sources
ETL Tasks (cleasing,
transforming and
integrating data)

18. SOLIDQ 2018
Power BI reports
Power BI Reports differences
Power BI (Service) Power BI Report Server
Release cadence
Preview features
Custom visuals
Publish location
Import models
DirectQuery /
LiveQuery
Once per month Once each 4 month
Power BI Service (Azure hosted) Power BI Report Server (on premises)

19. Excel Reports
Excel Reports differences
Power BI (Service) Power BI Report Server
Supports customs
visuals
Data imported models
Live Query models
External ODC
Coming soon Coming soon

20. Embedding Reports on Apps
Power BI (Service)
Power BI
Report Server
Reporting Services
Power BI Embedded
Available through
Power BI Premium and
Embedded. It allows to
share with a broad
number of recipients
with no license
required on their side
rs:Embed=true URL parameter
It allows to render reports in full screen. It is possible to
embed the url into webs or apps, considering the
security configuration needs.

21. DEMO
We are Reports

22. API REST

23. API features
 OData compliant
 Request URI scheme:
 {URI-scheme} :// {URI-host} / {resource-path} [? {query-string}]
 http://sqsummit18.ddns.net/bireports/api/v2.0/CatalogItems
 Documentation available
 https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/microsoft-rs/SSRS
https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/microsoft-rs/PBIRS/2.0

24. API features
Reports
• Check//Update
datasource
Favorites
• Add / Delete
Datasources,
DataSets,
Caches
Favorites,
Folders
KPIs
Mobile
reports
System Info,
Extensions,
etc.
Excel
workbooks
Power BI
Reports

25. DEMO
Play this API

26. Preguntas