1. Information at Your Fingertips Jonathan Schultz Enterprise Portals Skyline Technologies, Inc. August 24, 2011

2. Who am I? About Me Over 13 years of experience with Microsoft solutions MCITP - SharePoint® Administrator 2010 Held Technical & Leadership Roles About Skyline Technologies Microsoft Partner with Gold competencies in Business Intelligence, Content Management, Portals and Collaboration, and Web Development and Silver competencies in Data Platform, Project and Portfolio Management, Search, and Software Development.

3. Agenda What is Business Intelligence (BI)? Why BI? How do I get started?

4. What is Business Intelligence? SharePoint 2010 Insights Information at your fingertips!

5. BI Capabilities

6. Demo - Reporting Sharing information

7. Reporting Business Value Deliver timely and consistent information to decision makers throughout the organization What’s Cool Subscriptions ReportBuilder 3.0 REST API for Excel Services

8. Demo – Ad Hoc Query Empowering people

9. Ad Hoc Query Business Value Self-service analysis without the need for heavy IT involvement What’s Cool PowerPivot It’s Flexible It’s Fast

10. Demo – Performance Management Focusing on results

11. Performance Management Business Value Provides a line-of-sight from operational activities to strategic goals Ability to identify issues and opportunities faster What’s Cool Dashboards Decomposition Trees Drill Down Analysis

12. Demo – Data Visualization Improving understanding

13. Appleton Compassion Project Silverlight Pivot Viewer Mobile Application http://www.appletoncompassion.org/VirtualExhibitViewer

14. Data Visualization Business Value Form a quick hypothesis without having to dig through pages of numbers, i.e. intuitive Analyze Non-numeric data What’s Cool Bing Maps Silverlight Control Silverlight PivotViewer

15. Demo – Portals & Collaboration Bringing it all together

16. Portals & Collaboration Business Value Role-based portals combine BI, content, search and social features to give people the right information at the right time in the right context. What’s Cool What Isn’t?

17. How Do I Get Started? Plan, plan, plan Governance Information Ownership & Definition Security Data Quality Technical Infrastructure Application Servers Hardware Sizing Authentication (Secure Store, Kerberos)

18. Recap BI is cool while providing business value Microsoft’s BI stack is integrated and exists in many organizations already Planning for BI delivery is similar to planning for SharePoint, don’t skip it!

19. References Microsoft BI Demos – Short demonstrations of BI functionality TDWI – General BI information (not Microsoft specific) Capacity Planning Whitepapers – Test results and recommendations from Microsoft Bing Maps BI White Paper – White paper on integrating Bing Maps and your BI solutions Bing Maps Silverlight Control