1. What’s New in Reporting Services 2008 R2 donald.farmer@microsoft.com

2. SQL Server 2008 R2 First half of 2010Aligned with Office 2010Focused on Business Intelligence

3. End User Flexibility & Power End User Flexibility & Power IT Insight & Oversight IT Insight & Oversight Managed Self Service

4. End User Flexibility & Power End User Flexibility & Power IT Insight & Oversight IT Managed Self Service CollaborationCollaboration

5. Self Service Report Authoring Productive toolsRe-use existing reportsPublish for other users and IT

6. Collaboration “Grab and Go”Shared Component Library

7. THE REPORT COMPONENT LIBRARY Demo

8. Self Service Analysis Self Service Reporting

9. PowerPivot Reporting Services

10. Introducing PowerPivot PowerPivot add-in for Excel PowerPivot add-in for SharePoint

11. Business users do not understand databases

12. Business users do understand reports

13. Reports as data sources Rendered as Atom FeedsAssociated with PowerPivotRefreshed from the server

14. Reports as data sources for users You know where to find themYou know what they meanYou already have access

15. Reports as data sources for IT Many are already availableSecurity is already configuredUsers already understand them

16. PowerPivot as a data source Uses PowerPivot for SharePointWorkbooks look like simple cubesConnect with a URLQuery with MDX

17. REPORTS AS DATA SOURCES Demo

18. Report Viewer Refreshed viewer look and feelSmoother navigation with AJAX

19. Report Manager Improved workflowManage reports without previewImproved user interface

20. Rich presentations MapsSparklinesKPIsData Bars

21. MAPS IN ACTION Demo

22. Map Features Use with SQL SpatialUse with Virtual Earth tilesData GroupingMultiple Map layers

23. Sparklines “Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Tufte Automatic axis alignment.Convert to full charts

24. Data bars Depicts a single value in a cell. Min-Max set automaticallyHighly configurable

25. KPIs Key Performance Indicators Icons show status, goals or a trend. Change appearance with data

26. KPIs Key Performance Indicators Pre-configured or custom sets Automatically compare groups Also supported by Gauges

27. Other improvements Lookup functions Aggregate of aggregatesNew Data sources: SQL Server “Madison”, SQL AzureReset page number on groupsExpression-based page breaksExcel worksheet tab namingSession variablesRenderer-dependent layoutBottom-to-top text rotation

28. Aggregates of Aggregates Average Monthly Sales =Avg(Sum(Sales, "Month"), "Year") Visual Totals Aggregates respect group filters

29. Aggregates of Aggregates

30. Excel Renderer Worksheet Names

31. Reset Page Number on Group Reset page number for each new group Get current page & total page for each group

32. Bottom-to-Top Text Rotation

33. Renderer-based expressions Control layout for specific renderers Disable drillthrough for static renderers Enable drillthrough for interactive renderers

34. Renderer-based expressions

35. Dynamic page breaks Use expressions to detect the rendererDynamically disable/enable page breaksIf exporting to Excel, disable page breaks

36. SQL Server 2008 R2 Public CTP, November 2009Release, first half of 2010