1. What’s new in SSRS 2016

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3. Agenda
New Features Overview
Finally!!!!
Demos
Focus on New Data Types

4. What’s new First significant update since SQL 2008 R2
(Roughly 6 Years)
Acquisition of Datazen
(~April 2015) is a major part of this release

5. What’s New
New Web Portal Updated Report Builder New Report Types (Datazen) Dashboard/Mobile KPI Power BI Integration(ish)

6. Report Types 1. Paginated Reports (Classic Reports)
-Report Builder or SSDT
Dashboard/Mobile Reports
-Mobile Report Publisher
3. KPIs
-Web Portal

7. Report Builder (Paginated Reports)
Higher DPI in IDE
Modernized Look
Data Sets for Mobile Report are also built here

8. Paginated Reports
New Charts and Gauges Custom Parameters Pane PowerPoint export option

9. New Web Portal Modern Look and Feel HTML5 Support
Print without ActiveX Control
Custom Branding

10. KPIs
Created in SSRS Portal Uses Datasets deployed to SSRS Portal Trend set included with Visual Drill through capability

11. Mobile Report Publisher
Dashboard Development
“Design First” Approach
Dashboards can be laid out first, and then data modelled to support dashboard
Dashboards use Datasets deployed on SSRS Server
Dashboards are easily deployed to Mobile
Publisher is free to download
Can run locally for free using local excel data source
To share Dashboards the dashboard files would need to be ed with excel source file
Connect Publisher to Datazen Enterprise Server to connect to other sources and collaborate

12. Mobile Mobile reports integrated into PowerBI App
Available on Microsoft, Apple, Android
Required exposing SSRS Web server to web
Work with your Infrastructure team
(or check out Azure VMs with Azure SQL DBs)

13. Microsoft BI Integration?
Power BI "Integration" Deploy Report Charts and Graphs to Power BI Dashboards Save Excel and Power BI Desktop files in SSRS (not much integration yet)

16. Datazen Sources Documentation: http://www.datazen.com/docs
Blog:
What’s new SSRS: us/library/ms aspx