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Business Intelligence
Simon Pease
Experience with BI
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Developing end-to-end BI prototype for
Plan International
Extensive project experience with
Reporting Services
Books, courses, exams and played
Developed numerous reporting apps that
should have been BI solutions!
Concepts
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Business Intelligence
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Organisation-wide perspective
Combining data from diverse systems
High level aggregation to detailed drill-down
Relational data not designed for BI
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Narrow focus on specific business requirement
OLTP for speed of entry and integrity
OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) for aggregating
large data volumes
Core Processes
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ELT (Extract, Load, Transform)
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Star Schema
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Relational structure for OLAP, not OLTP
Cubes
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Import, clean and combine diverse data
Store in Data Warehouse
Pre-aggregate results (sum, count)
Reporting
(Data Mining and Prediction)
SQL Server 2005
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SQL Server Management Studio
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Design and query databases
Replaces Enterprise Manager, Query Analyser
Manage Servers (DB, AS, RS, IS)
SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio
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VS .NET 2005 projects
Design, build and deploy
Business Intelligence Studio
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Integration Services
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Analysis Services
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Design and populate Cubes
Report Model
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Data import and transform (replaces DTS)
Merge data into Star Schema
ERD for reporting
Report Server
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Design and publish reports
Star Schema
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Star focuses on business area
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Fact Table stores numeric measures
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Sales, Logistics
Order Value, Order Quantity
Dimension Tables
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How data is analysed (aggregates and
heirarchies)
Product, Customer, Time
Demo – Star and SSIS
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NwindOLTP2005 – Source Database
NwindStar2005 – Star Schema
Data issues
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Re-mapping to keys in Dimension Tables
vwRawFactData
vwMappedFactData
Demo – AS Cube
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Turn on Services (AS, SQL Browser)
Set up Data Source and Data Source View
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Warning – use Service Account
Run wizard to create the Cube
Configure Deployment Options
Process and Deploy
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Browse in Management Studio – drag on
dimensions and measures
Demo – Report Wizard
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Report Services Project
Connect AS
Drag on Measures and Dimensions, set
Parameters
Tabular, set options
Publish to Report Server (IIS)