This presentation helps the Microsoft BI Consultants, BI Developers, Power Users choose the right Reporting Tools for their reports understanding the strength of each tool

1. Microsoft BI
Reporting Tools
Parikshit Savjani
Premier Field
Engineer, Microsoft

2. Agenda
• Understand the Microsoft BI Reporting Tools
• Choose the right Reporting Tools for your BI
Solution
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3. Microsoft BI Stack
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4. Excel Dashboards
Power View
Microsoft BI
Stack
Microsoft BI
Reporting
Tools
Performance Point Dashboards
Oracle/Te
radata/Od
ata
SQL
Database
Cube
SQL Reporting Services
Cube
Tabular
Cube
PowerPivot
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5. PPS
Scorecards &
Dashboard
Interactivity
Great Reporting Tool for
Analytics but doesn’t
provide Self Service BI
Scorecards & Dashboards allows Drilldown and Drill Through capabilities
Allow the Users to performs Ad-hoc Reporting & Analytics
Visualization
Limited Visualization & Charts available as compared to other tools
Self Service BI
Users may not be able to develop Dashboards by themselves.
Export to Excel
Export to Excel is possible but data should be restricted to 10,000 rows.
Email Subscriptions
Users may not be able to receive the report via email subscriptions.
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6. SQL
Reporting
Services
Interactivity
SSRS Dashboards allows Drilldown but Drillthrough Capabilities are limited
SSRS is primarily useful for Static Reports with limited interactivity & adhoc capabilities
Visualization
Rich Set of Visualization available viz Maps, Gauge, Sparklines etc
Great Reporting Tool for
Static Reports (for e.g
Self Service BI
Payslips,SQL Perf
Users may not be able to develop Dashboards by themselves.
Dashboards) but may not
be useful for Analytics &
Export to Excel
Self Service BI
Export to Excel is possible
Email Subscriptions
Users can create email subscriptions to have the reports delivered to their mailbox
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7. Power view
Interactivity
Power view Dashboard allows dynamic slicing which makes it highly interactive tool for
analytics and Dashboarding
Preferred Tool for Ad hoc Reporting
Visualization
Rich Set of Visualization available viz Maps, Scatter Plotter Graph, Cards, Tiles etc
Self Service BI
Users should be able to develop Dashboards.
Export to Excel
Export to Excel is not possible
Great Reporting Tool for
Self Service BI, Analytics
but doesn’t support
export to Excel & Email
Subscriptions
Email Subscriptions
Users may not be able to create email subscriptions to have the reports delivered to their
mailbox
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8. Excel
Dashboard
Interactivity
Excel Dashboard in Sharepoint via Excel Services provide limited interactivity with no Drill
through Action support
Excel Dashboard download supports Drilltrhough
Visualization
Rich Set of Visualization available viz Maps, Scatter Plotter Graph, Cards, Tiles etc
Self Service BI
Users should be able to develop Dashboards.
Export to Excel
Export to Excel is possible
Great Reporting Tool for
Self Service
BI, Analytics, Excel Users
but has limited
interactivity
Email Subscriptions
Users may not be able to create email subscriptions to have the reports delivered to their
mailbox
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9. Decision Matrix
PPS
Interactivity
Visualizatio
n
Self Service
BI
Export to
Excel
Email
Subscriptio
ns
SSRS
PowerView
Good
Minimal
Highly Interactive
Limited
Difficult
Rich
Difficult
Possible (limited to 10K rows)
Not Available
Possible
Available
Excel Dashboards
Moderate
Rich
Easy
Not Possible
Not Available
Moderate
Easy
Possible
Not Available

10. Choosing the
Right
Reporting
Tool
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SharePoint BI allows and supports all the BI Reporting
tools viz PPS, SSRS, Power view, Excel.
•
Based on the Business requirements for each dashboard
we can choose the most appropriate Reporting Tools
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11. Contact
Parikshit Savjani
Premier Field Engineer
pariks@Microsoft.com
http://www.sqlserverfaq.net
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