Microsoft is standardizing reporting across platforms to focus on four main report types: paginated reports, interactive reports, mobile reports, and analytical reports. Reporting Services 2016 is positioned as the centralized on-premises solution for delivering these report types from both online and on-premises data sources. The new Reporting Services 2016 platform features a modernized web interface built on HTML5, improved support for mobile reports, and enhanced integration with Power BI for report delivery and dashboarding.

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New life for Reporting Services:
what's up in 2016
Andrea Martorana Tusa
@bruco441
andrea.martoranatusa@gmail.com

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About me | Andrea Martorana Tusa
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Analyst programmer working in IT department of Banco Popolare.
Focused on all the applications involved in Human Resources
management.
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Skills: SQL Server and Oracle development, data warehousing,
reporting, BI, Analysis Services, C#, R.
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MCTS “SQL Server Developer”.
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Speaker at SQL Saturdays, SQL Nexus, PASS Italian Virtual chaper
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Author on sqlservercentral.com, UGISS (User Group Italiano SQL
Server).

4. May 28, 2016
Agenda
● Microsoft's New Age for reporting: towards integration
● The new platform for Reporting Services 2016
● Reporting Services 2016 new features
● Q & A

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Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 1/9
PASS Summit 2015 has been a crucial passage to know the new
Microsoft's development pattern for its Business Intelligence
platform. A straight and clear roadmap has been presented, aiming
to harmonize reporting content types across platforms and systems.
Keywords of the new strategy are:
Integration
Standardization
Harmonization
Integration = whole ecosystem
Standardization = the rules to
keeps things together and to build
the same object for different
environements
Harmonization = every object has
its own purporse. No more overlaps

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Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 2/9
…
Data is coming at us from every direction. From traditional sources – on-premises
enterprise applications and databases. From sources developed over the last decade
– websites, mobile applications, social media and SaaS business applications ...
... we are aligning our cloud and on-premises solutions. It is our intent that your
reporting technology investments and expertise will transfer across these deployment
modalities so you can easily mix and match on-premises and cloud components, and
benefit from our unique hybrid scenarios.
(Microsoft Business Intelligence – our reporting roadmap
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/10/29/microsoft-business-intelligence-our-reporting-roadmap.aspx)

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Standardize report types
To achieve its goal, Microsoft has
declared the intention to
standardize reporting content
types across on-premises, cloud
and hybrid systems. The new
approach focuses on four report
types, based on production
technology and delivery method.
Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 3/9

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The four report types:
1) Paginated Reports. Standard page-
format report type, with many elements
and complex business logic. Built with
Report Builder or SSDT (Visual Studio)
2) Interactive Reports. Made of
different objects (tiles) that allow
dynamic and interactive visualizations.
Built with Power BI Desktop.
Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 4/9

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3) Mobile Reports. Specially
optimized for mobile devices with
simple logic and few elements. Built
with Mobile Report Publisher
(former Datazen).
4) Analytical reports and charts.
Created with Excel directly by end
users.
Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 5/9
The four report types:

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Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 6/9
Reporting Services plays a determinant role in the new architecture.
Starting from 2016 release, it becames the centralized on-premises
solution for BI report delivery, meaning that it can hosts objects such
as:
- paginated reports
- mobile reports
- KPI
- Power BI reports (future development)
To achieve this goal, the web site has been totally overhauled and
rewritten, for better reporting deploy and delivery.

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Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 7/9
Reporting Services is our on-premises solution for BI report delivery
… SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to date has focused on
paginated reports and offers class-leading capabilities for that
format. With SQL Server 2016 we are taking a leap forward by
adding support for mobile reports. The addition of this new report
type in SSRS is accompanied by an entirely new web experience for
Reporting Services allowing users to access both paginated and
mobile reports in one centralized location.
(Microsoft Business Intelligence – our reporting roadmap
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/10/29/microsoft-businessintelligence-our-reporting-roadmap.aspx)

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Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 8/9
The final result is a Business Intelligence platform based on an hybrid approach, as
data are coming from both on-line and on-premises sources.
Reporting Services 2016 placement in the new BI infrastructure

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Microsoft's New Age for Reporting 9/9
In the new integrated vision, every tools has is own destination and scope. No
more overlaps and ridundances.

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The new platform for Reporting
Services 2016

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The new platform for Reporting Services 1/6
A new modern web site
Reporting Services portal has been totally overhauled and rewritten
in HTML5 to support modern browers.
Objects are positioned in the home page for user's direct access.
Last feature introduced recently provides also a serch engine whitin
the site.
Starting from SQL Server Release Candidate 1, the new portal
replaces in toto the old Report Manager.

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From Report Manager ...
The new platform for Reporting Services 2/6

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… to a modern integrated platform built on HTML5 technology ...
The new platform for Reporting Services 3/6

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… with all objects available at a glance in the home page
The new platform for Reporting Services 4/6

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Layout customization
Another new feature is the possibility to customize platform layout, adding logo, colors and
name for company branding
The new platform for Reporting Services 5/6

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The new platform for Reporting Services 6/6
Data caching e refresh
The new platform provides a semplified and easier version for data caching and scheduling of
refresh and snapshots.
From multiple choices of
Report Manager …
… it passes to a windows
that contains maximun
three options, clears and
well defined.
Depending on the choice
you made, it opens a
window for data refresh
management.

21. May 28, 2016
DEMO 1
The new platform for Reporting Services 2016
(demo based on Release Candidate 3)
- Data Source
- Dataset
- KPI
- Paginated Report
- Mobile Report
- Data caching e refresh
- Site branding

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Reporting Services 2016 new features

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Report Builder designed with a MS Office-like look & feel.
Reporting Services 2016 new features 1/11
Visualization styles for tables, charts, gauges, maps etc. have been uptaded to a have
a modern and attractive look

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Visual Studio 2015 SSDT support merged in one single update
Reporting Services 2016 new features 2/11

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Report parameters can be moved anywhere in any order on the design surface
Reporting Services 2016 new features 3/11

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Two new charts:
Treemap Sunburst
Reporting Services 2016 new features 4/11

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DEMO 2
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Report parameters placement
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Treemap
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Sunburst

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Print reports directly from the browser (without installing an ActiveX control)
Reporting Services 2016 new features 5/11

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Export reports to PowerPoint
Export an entire report to a set
of PowerPoint slides and modify
as needed.
Reporting Services 2016 new features 6/11
Move, resize, modify report single objects.

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Pin report items to Power BI dashboards as tiles.
Reporting Services 2016 new features 7/11

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Reporting Services 2016 new features 8/11
Pin in a Power BI group
Starting from Release Candidate 1, it's also possibile to pin report objects into a
Power BI group
In this case Reporting Services creates automatically a subscription to keep
dashboard tile updated

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Integration into Sharepoint
Sharepoint-integrated mode for
version 2013 and 2016 now supports
Reporting Services.
Installing Reporting Services in
SharePoint Mode it's possibile to
create and visualize reports into
document libraries, create
subscriptions and delivery by e-mail,
data alert, ecc.
Reporting Services 2016 new features 9/11

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Reporting Services 2016 new features 10/11
Embedding reports in applications
It's possible to embedd reports into other applications such as SharePoint, web pages, app.
To make it just add following parameter to the URL: rs:Embed=true
For instance:
https://reportserver/reports/mobilereport/Marketing%20Scorecard?rs:Embed=true
This way you get an optimized view of the report without menu and heading, adapted for a
frame
With menu and heading Without menu and heading

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Reporting Services 2016 new features 11/11
Subscriptions. Report delivery by e-mail
Trough a subscription it's possible to schedule
report delivery by e-mail.
Alternatively, you can choose to send the report
to a distribution group or to a network share.
This feature alredy present in Reporting Services
previous releases is avalaible in the new portal,
too.
But, with new Enterprise release you can even
generate data-based subscriptions.
These are subscriptions that generate one single
report for every row in the dataset.

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DEMO 3
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Printing
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Export to Powerpoint
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Pin to Power BI (with subscription)
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Subscriptions and report delivery

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Resources 1/2
● Microsft Business Intelligence – our reporting roadmap
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/10/29/microsoft-business-intelligence-
our-reporting-roadmap.aspx
● PASS Summit 2015 – Microsoft Foundation Session – Business Intelligence
http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2015/PASStv/Microsoft.aspx?watch=7bkq6QogrjA
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/10/28/sql-server-2016-community-technolo
gy-preview-3-0-is-available.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2015/09/02/what-s-new-in-reporting-services-in-sql-
server-2016-ctp-2-3.aspx
● http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2015/10/20/position-report-parameters-the-way-
you-want.aspx
● http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2015/10/28/pin-reporting-services-charts-to-power-b
i-dashboards-with-sql-server-2016-ctp-3-0.aspx
● http://christopherfinlan.com/2015/11/04/from-datazen-to-mobile-reports-in-sql-2016-an-faq-on-what
-it-means-for-you/

37. May 28, 2016
Resources 2/2
Working with KPIs in Reporting Services https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt683632.aspx
Try it yourself: Technet Virtual Lab
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2016/02/19/try-sql-server-2016-reporting-servic
es-with-new-technet-virtual-labs/
Exploring What’s New in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services for Paginated Reporting
https://vlabs.holsystems.com/vlabs/technet?eng=VLabs&auth=none&src=vlabs&altadd=true&la
bid=21981&lod=true
Exploring What’s New in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services for Mobile Reporting
https://vlabs.holsystems.com/vlabs/technet?
eng=VLabs&auth=none&src=vlabs&altadd=true&labid=23109&lod=true

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Q&A
Questions?

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THANKS!