Module 13

Consuming Data in a Data

Warehouse
Module Overview

• Introduction to Business Intelligence

• Enterprise Business Intelligence
• Self-Service BI and Big Data
Lesson 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence

• The Data Warehouse as a Platform for Business

Intelligence
• Data Analysis
• Reporting
The Data Warehouse as a Platform for Business
Intelligence

• Data quality and accuracy

• Data availability
• Complete and up-to-date data
• Query performance
Data Analysis

• Data analysis improves decision making by

revealing patterns in data
• Data analysis scenarios:
• Exploring data and identifying patterns
• Self-service analysis
• Data mining

• SQL Server Analysis Services provides a platform

for building analytical data models
• Excel enables analysis and business users to
perform data analysis
Reporting

• Reports Summarize data

• Often include graphical elements such as charts and
tables
• Reporting Scenarios
• Scheduled delivery of standard reports
• On-demand access to standard reports
• Embedded reports and dashboards
• Custom reports
• Self-service reporting

• SQL Server Reporting Services provides a platform

for creating, delivering, and managing reports
Lesson 2: Enterprise Business Intelligence

• Introduction to Enterprise BI
• SQL Server Analysis Services
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• SharePoint Server
Introduction to Enterprise BI

• Enterprise BI solutions are typically managed by IT

• Data models and reports are based on the data
warehouse and delivered to business users

Business Reports

Data Warehouse

Enterprise Data Models

IT Business Users
SQL Server Analysis Services

• A platform for enterprise-scale analytical data models

• A choice of data models to suit different BI needs
Reporting SharePoint Third-Party
Microsoft Excel
Services Server Applications

BI SEMANTIC MODEL

Data Model Multidimensional Tabular

Business Logic MDX DAX

and Queries

Direct
Data Access ROLAP MOLAP xVelocity
Query
SQL Server Reporting Services

• Multiple report authoring environments

• Centralized report management and distribution
• Two installation modes:
• SharePoint integrated
• Native
SharePoint Server

• Excel Services
• PowerPivot Service
• Integration with SSRS
• Power View
• PerformancePoint Services
Lesson 3: Self-Service BI and Big Data

• Introduction to Self-Service BI and Big Data

• Using Excel as a Self-Service BI Tool
• Report Builder and Power View in SharePoint
Server
• Big Data
• Microsoft® Office 365® Power BI
Introduction to Self-Service BI and Big Data

• Business users are empowered to create data

models and reports
• Often “mash-ups” of data from multiple sources
• Big Data tools and techniques extend business
analysis to a scale that was previously unfeasible
Mash-up data
models and reports

Data Warehouse Cloud services

Documents, Spreadsheets Other data sources

Using Excel as a Self-Service BI Tool

• Connect to Analysis Services data models

• Create PivotTable tables and PivotChart charts
• Use add-ins for self-service data discovery,
modeling, and visualization:
• PowerPivot
• Power Query
• Power View
• Power Map
Report Builder and Power View in SharePoint
Server

• Report Builder
• SQL Server Reporting Services tool for business users
• IT can empower users by creating report “building blocks”
• Shared data sources
• Share datasets
• Report parts

• Power View in SharePoint Server

• In-browser data visualizations from:
• PowerPivot workbooks
• Analysis Services tabular models
• Analysis Services multidimensional cubes
• Save reports in SharePoint Server or export to
PowerPoint
Big Data

• Big Data is typically identified by the “3 V’s”:

• Volume
• Variety
• Velocity

• Microsoft technologies for Big Data

• SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse
• Windows Azure HDInsight
• PolyBase
Microsoft® Office 365® Power BI

• Cloud-based collaborative BI environment:

• Power BI Sites
• Power BI Q&A
• Data Management Gateway
• Shared Queries
• Power BI Windows Store app

• Management Portals
• Power BI Admin Center
• Manage Data Portal
Lab: Using a Data Warehouse

• Exercise 1: Exploring an Enterprise BI Solution

• Exercise 2: Exploring a Self-Service BI Solution

Logon Information
Virtual machine: 20463C-MIA-SQL
User name: ADVENTUREWORKS\Student
Password: Pa$$w0rd

Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Lab Scenario

In this course, you have created a complete data

warehousing solution for the Adventure Works Cycles
company. Now you can explore the kinds of BI applications
that can be built on the data warehouse.
This lab provides a high-level introduction to some of the
ways in which the data warehouse you have built can
provide business users with the information they need to
perform effectively. You will explore an enterprise BI
solution that consists of an SSAS data model and SSRS
reports, and use Excel to perform self-service BI analysis.
The underlying data for all these BI activities is provided by
the data warehouse you have built in this course.
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