Description
About this course
This five-day instructor-led course also provides students with the necessary knowledge to develop reports using Microsoft Report Builder 3.0. The training environment includes SQL 2008R2, SQL Express 2012 and SQL 2012 Standard and Enterprise so that the students can utilize Report Builder 3.0 and generate reports from multiple sources to investigate the different features of each release.
The course covers the Report Builder 3.0 wizards, basics of report design, intermediate reports with report parameters and report expressions, report visualizations including graphs, charts, images, and gauges, advanced reporting including the utilization of maps, interactive reports, Report Parts and subreports.
The course concludes with a special module that includes over 100 tips and tricks for Report Builder 3.0 with step-by-step instructions. All of the examples are available as a take-away for the students after the course.
This course also provides students with the necessary knowledge to work with PerformancePoint 2013 Services. The new and improved Business Intelligence Center is explored, and all the exciting new features within the SharePoint 2013 release are covered.
The focus of this course is on the SharePoint 2013 business intelligence platform and not on the SQL business intelligence services.
PowerPivot and Dashboards have included modules.
Audience profile
This course is intended for power users, developers, and IT professionals that will be involved with the design, development, and maintenance of reports created with Report Builder 3.0.
This course is also intended for power users, business intelligence developers, and IT professionals that will be involved with the design, development and maintenance of SharePoint 2013 business intelligence solutions.
At course completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Plan your reports.
- Utilize Report Builder 3.0 wizards.
- Create an embedded data source.
- Create an embedded dataset.
- Create shared data sources and datasets.
- Use report parameters.
- Use report expressions.
- Create report gauges.
- Create report graphs.
- Use images in reports.
- Use report lists.
- Use report tables.
- Use the matrix.
- Create maps in reports.
- Create subreports.
- Use Report Parts.
- Create interactive reports.
- Use keyboard shortcuts.
- Browse the data within the cube using SQL Server Management Studio.
- Browse data using Visual Studio 2013.
- Connect to a tabular source, import tables, and explore the data.
- Explore the options and settings available within the new SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
- Create a new web application and business intelligence site while exploring the features of both.
- Create a SharePoint library to hold Excel workbooks and explore trusted file locations.
- Utilize the Power View add-in for Excel.
- Create an Excel workbook with a parameter and save it to a SharePoint document library.
- Add Web Apps to a webpage.
- Explore the Dashboard Designer interface and know how to create and configure a data source.
- Create and configure a standard KPI and a scorecard.
- Create and configure a leaf KPI and a scorecard.
- Create two blank KPI’s and then roll them into an objective KPI.
- Create and configure an analytic chart and an analytic grid, add them to a dashboard, deploy them to SharePoint, and explore the options available.
- Create and configure a filter, and tie the filter into both the analytic chart and analytic grid created earlier.
- Create and configure a cascading filter and then tie it into a new analytic chart and grid.
- Create a Time Intelligence data connection, a Time Intelligence filter, and create a report using both.
- Create four copies of the Objective Scorecard, configure settings in each of the four copies, and deploy them to SharePoint in a dashboard.
- Create a new leaf KPI and use that KPI in two new scorecards, one with a filter configured, and one without.
- Create an objective scorecard and matching strategy map, place them in a dashboard, and then upload the dashboard to the Student BI Site.
- Use PowerPivot within Excel to import a table from SQL Server.
- View the relationships existing within the imported tables from SQL Server and then import an additional table and configure a relationship between it and the existing.
- Hide columns they don’t want reflected in the resulting PivotTable.
- Create a PivotTable within an existing worksheet.
- Navigate the Report Builder 3.0 interface.
- Create an embedded data source connecting into a database.
- Create an embedded data source connecting into an OLAP database.
- Create a shared data source using the Report Manager.
- Create a shared dataset using the shared connection they created in the previous exercise.
- Create a new dashboard and explore three different ways to connect the Web Apps.