With Project Siena Microsoft has introduced a beta release of a new technology for business experts, business analysts, consultants, and other app imagineers. This session will review if Siena is useful for Business analysts. We will show how to combine simple app development (Rapid R Business Intelligence BI Development D) with different data sources from Excel Sheets (Power Query driven) , RSS Feeds, SharePoint Lists or Windows Azure Tables and how to deploy your little app in minutes. We will discuss the use cases of Siena from a BI perspective, what you can do already and what is missing.

1. Siena calling!
Project Siena a RBID App?
Oliver Engels | Tillmann Eitelberg

2. Our Sponsors

3. Speakers
Oliver Engels
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CEO of oh22data AG
PASS Regional Mentor Germany
President PASS Germany
Chapter Leader Frankfurt, Germany
Microsoft MVP
Microsoft vTSP
Tillmann Eitelberg
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CTO of oh22information services GmbH
PASS Regional Mentor Germany
Vice-president PASS Germany
Chapter Leader Cologne/Bonn, Germany
Microsoft MVP

4. RAD!
RBID!
Rapid Application Development
Rapid Business Intelligence Development
eh, what...?

5. Rapid application development (RAD) is a
software development methodology that
uses minimal planning in favor of rapid
prototyping. The "planning" of software
developed using RAD is interleaved with
writing the software itself. The lack of
extensive pre-planning generally allows
software to be written much faster, and
makes it easier to change requirements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
RAD is associated with a wide range of
approaches to software development: from
hacking away in a GUI builder with little
in the way of analysis and design to
complete methodologies expanding on an
information engineering framework.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rapid+Application+Development

6. RAD > Für Business Intelligence
 RBID: Rapid Business Intelligence
Development
 Actual generic problems in BI:
 Application backlog:
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More data
More applications
More user
More devices
 Self-Service BI: The solution?

7. Self-Service BI: Definition
Self-Service
Integration of privat or
local data
Modification and
Generation of
Datamodels
Modify Reports
and Dashboards
Generating Reports
and Dashboards ad-hoc
Data Stewardship
(Optimizing
Dataquality)
Data Governance
Adopted by BARC, Aspekte der Self-Service BI, 2012

8. Self-Service BI – Microsoft Toolset
Power Query
Power View
SharePoint
MDS / DQS
Power Pivot
Power Map
Visio
Power BI Portal

9. Self-Service BI – Landscape
Personal
Team
Team Cloud
Visio
Visio Services 2013
Excel Power Map
Reporting Services
Q&A
Excel Power View
Power View
Power View
SharePoint
Power BI
Desktop

10. Wait!
Is this all?

11. Business Intelligence Applications
 Business Intelligence is an island?
 NO:
 Applications for Data Entry
>besides the LOB Systems (ERP, CRM, Web)
 Applications for Analysis
>besides Portals, Reporting, Cube Browser
 Applications consuming „BI“ data
 Mobile applications
>using just a subset of BI

12. Business Intelligence Application
 With the new Self-Service Toolset MS created
a powerfull set of Excel Add-Ins
 Is there something similar for building „BI“
applications?

13. RBID Tool Number 1
 Excel
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#1 „database“ in the world since 1985
Cell, Matrix, Sheet, Workbook driven
Form functions, charts
Macro and VBA driven programming
File based

14. RBID Tool Number 2
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No. 2 Microsoft RAD Tool since decades
More database driven than Excel
Better access to form and reporting functions
Multiuser functionality
Run time engine

15. RBID Tools: Other kids on the block
 Popfly
 Rich Internet Application
 allowed users to create web pages
(Game Creator, Mashup Creator, Web Creator, Popfly
Space)
 discontinued in 2009
 Light Switch
 Rapid Application Development
 But no self-service tool
 Windows Phone App Studio
 Rapid Application Development
 Build Windows Phone 8 Apps
 generates your source code

17. Project Siena
 Microssoft claims:
 Create powerful apps for the device-first and cloudconnected world
 Enabling Business Users to Create Mobile Apps for the
Enterprise
 Project Siena is for
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business experts
business analysts
consultants
and other business users
 Using little more than PowerPoint- and Excel-level
skills

18. Project Siena
Is "Project Siena" the
RBID we're looking for?

19. Development Process

20. Functionality
 Build Windows 8 Apps
 Completely in HTML5 and JavaScript
 works with corporate and web data and
media content
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SharePoint lists
Excel
Windows Azure Media Services
RSS feeds
RESTful services

21. Sample App

22. Sample App

23. Sample App

24. Sample App

25. Sample App

26. Windows Azure Mobile Service
 easy way to store data in the cloud
 use Windows Azure SQL database, blob
storage, table storage or third party services
 Easily authenticate users through SingleSign-On Providers (Facebook, Twitter,
Microsoft, Google)
 Powerful and flexible REST API
 SDK for different platforms (Windows,
Android, iOS, HTML)

27. Windows Azure Mobile Service
 Create a new Windows Azure Mobile Service
 Create different data tables
 Create a control table zz_config
 Key
 Value
 Add any table to zz_config

28. Windows Azure Mobile Services

29. Windows Azure Mobile Services

30. Windows Azure Mobile Services

31. Windows Azure Mobile Services

32. Provide Images with Windows Azure Storage

33. Provide Images with Windows Azure Storage

34. Provide Images with Windows Azure Storage
 CloudBerry Explorer
for Azure Cloud
Storage
 Freeware
 Commercial Pro
Version available
 Also available for
Google Storage,
Amazon S3, HP Cloud,
Openstack, Rackspace

35. Provide Images with Windows Azure Storage

36. Provide Images with Windows Azure Storage

37. Provide Images with Windows Azure Storage

38. Publish Siena Projects
 Get a Developer License
 Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration
 Publish the App to the Marketplace
 Only with Visual Studio
 Convert a „Project Siena“-Project to Visual Studio
Solution
http://aka.ms/ProjectSienaProductAppForStore
 sideloading “line-of-business” apps
 Windows-Intune-Company-Store

39. Publish Siena Projects
*.siena
Installer
Windows Store
Editing
Yes
No
No
Developer License
No
Yes
No
Siena Dev App
Yes
No
No
Visual Studio 2012
No
No
Yes
Apllication Start
Siena Dev App Windows Start Menue Windows Start Menue
Windows 8/8.1
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows 8/8.1 RT
Yes
No
Yes

40. Publish Siena Projects

41. Publish Siena Projects

42. Publish Siena Projects

43. Publish Siena Projects

44. Publish Siena Projects

45. Publish Siena Projects

46. Publish Siena Projects

47. Publish Siena Projects

48. Limitations
 Size restrictions when importing Excel data
 Number of rows: 15.000
 Number of columns: 100
Local Files (Excel) are stored with absolut path
Publish to Windows Store is no Business User job
AMS returns max. 300 records, no paging
Network-heavy apps may be terminated at
startup
 Beta doesn’t support SharePoint Office 365
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49. How to properly close Windows 8 applications
Pull and hold until
the application is
turning

50. Links
 Microsoft Project Siena (Beta)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ProjectSiena
 Get Siena
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/microsoft-projectsiena/5ae47651-e8f3-4e41-aab7-e19ab1b80180
 Project Siena Function Reference
http://aka.ms/ProjectSienaFunctionReference
 TechNet Forum Project Siena
http://bit.ly/1i2vIsk
 Windows Phone App Studio
http://appstudio.windowsphone.com/
 Microsoft Project Siena (Beta) | Channel 9
http://bit.ly/1mVrZeQ

51. Links
 Microsoft Projekt Siena (Beta) - der AppBaukasten für Windows 8.1
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/trainingcourses/microsoft-projekt-siena-beta-der-app-baukasten-fuerwindows-8-1
 Convert to Visual Studio Solution
http://aka.ms/ProjectSienaProductAppForStore

52. Free ebooks from Microsoft Press
Introducing Windows Azure for IT
Professionals
Programming Windows Store Apps
with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript,
Second Edition (Second Preview)
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/LandingPageHan
dler.ashx?lPage=ebooks&cID=5#appdevelopment

53. THANK YOU!