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

View from the Top:
SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence with SQL
Server 2012 “Denali”

Best of SharePoint Conference 2011
November 2011
Chris 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

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©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

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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

Complexity Levels of These Solutions
Cost

Time
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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Introducing SQL Server 2012


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..

With Managed Self-Service BI


Provides Required 9s of Availability
Without Cost and Complexity


Summary

Required 9s
and Visualization Scale

Blazing Fast
Self Service BI Cloud and On Premise
Consistent Data
Enhanced
Superior DW Anywhere


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

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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 Message

Source: Data.gov - Data.gov and the Federal Government cannot vouch for the data or analyses
derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from Data.gov.

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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

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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

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SSRS SharePoint Integration Architecture
for SQL Server codenamed “Denali”
Alert Designer
SharePoint SharePoint
Web Front App Server
End
SSRS Shared
SSRS in Web Application Service Application
Alert Manager
RS Add-in SSRS Shared
Service Application

SharePoint Config / Report Server
Content DB Shared Service DB 21


Self-Service Alerting – How it works

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Receiving alerts

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DEMO
• Self Service Alerting

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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


PowerPivot for SharePoint
Server, Services, and Components

SharePoint Farm
c2wts

Client WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Excel Web Access SQL
Services

User renders a Excel Calc Services
Application Proxy
MSOLAP
workbook TCP
Excel Web Service
HTTP

Channel
Data Sources
PowerPivot Web
PowerPivot Sys Svc
Service
Application Proxy

PowerPivot System
Service
Analysis Services in
VertiPaq Mode

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DEMO
• PowerPivot
• Power View

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SQL 2012 RC0 Shipped 11/17/11
• Multiple views
• Export live to
PowerPoint
• Storyboard view
• Chart interactivity
• Canvas UI
• Print

http://bit.ly/sqNjpo

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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


Deployment Scenarios

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Disaster Recovery Target 1

2
Production Environment
1 Primary Availability Replica
Read-only Environment
2 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

RPO
Zero Seconds Minutes Hours D

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Climb Denali – You Can Do It! (upgrade, I mean…)

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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

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In-Place Upgrade – Matrix

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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!

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Engineering

Business SQL Server
Connectivity 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]

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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

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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

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•Questions
•Contact Me
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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)

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Questions?
Get more information at
www.Quest.com/ControlYourChaos

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