Datazen On-premise mobile BI Bent Pedersen @Bent_n_pedersen www.biblog.eu
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Who am i Senior Business Analytics Consultant at Kapacity 9 years with SQL Server Speaker Areas of interest Analysis Services Power BI DAX Reporting Services Datazen @Bent_N_Pedersen http://biblog.eu
Agenda Datazen History Dashboards Data and KPI's Product elements Branding Licensing My opinion Present and the Future
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Datazen History Formerly ComponentArt, incorporated in 2002 Microsoft partner Acquired for over 12 years by Known for Data Visualization development frameworks 10,000+ customers worldwide Background in complex BI front-end implementations Microsoft in April Released Datazen mobile BI product in February 2013 Datazen immediately recognized by Gartner, Forrester and TEC The product is rapidly gaining traction among customers, partners and analysts Avanade acquired a Datazen white 2015 label license in early 2014 (Avanade Touch Analytics) Microsoft acquired a Datazen license for an internal deployment to 1,000 users Numerous Microsoft BI field teams are working with Datazen on customer opportunities More information is available at www.datazen.com
Dashboards Unified Dashboard Designer Rich, Interactive Visualizations Perfect Rendering in Any Screen Form-Factor Extensive Drill-Downs and Drill- Throughs Support for Very Large Data Sets Support for Custom Maps Activity Stream
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Design Dashboards 1. Design first 2. Data first
Design first All initial work is done in the Layout View No query and data is required Why design first? Simple and speedy prototyping Ideal for non data-language experts to do designs
Data first Starts with creating queries Then create dashboard Prerequisites You need to know what you want to do You often identifies granularity problems Datazen is not build for data manipulation
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KPI s Perfect for executive information Easily acessible Can link to other KPI s and dashboard Can be pinned to the Windows 8 & 10 Supports comments
Product Elements
Product elements
Data availability Direct Cached Offline
Data sources Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Microsoft SQL Azure Microsoft SharePoint Lists Generic ODBC data sources Excel documents in network shares
Personal data from data sources SSAS 2012+ supports EffectiveUserName Include username in query SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Username = "{{ username }} MEMBER [USERNAME] AS "{{ username }} http://services.odata.org/northwind/northwind.svc/customers?$filter=user%20eq%20%27{{ username }}%27 http://mysoapserver.com/mysoapservice.aspx?user={{ username }}
Excel-files as input Do s Have one worksheet per data set Have column headers in the first row Keep data types consistent within each column Format cells as proper types in Excel When using formulas, ensure that the entire column is calculated using the same formula Use Excel 2007 or later Save Excel files with the extension XLSX Save file to fileshare Dont s Include images, graphs, pivot tables or other embedded objects in data set worksheets Include total or calculated rows Keep the file open in Excel when importing Format numbers manually by adding currency or other symbols Use Excel 2003 or earlier Use files with the extension XLS
Other great features Maps Floor plans Seats Places Customer http://www.barmartland.com/creat ing-a-custom-map-for-datazen/ Linking CRM systems Order systems Replenishment systems Claims handling
Branding examples Fortescue Metals Group Carlsberg Group
Branding examples Discovery Education Microsoft
Licensing Anyone with an Enterprise SQL 2008 Enterprise Edition or later.
What to expect from Datazen Expect KPI Repository BI Dashboards Team Collaboration Single Point of Publishing Native Apps for All Platforms On-premise Don t expect Data exploration Data manipulation Self-service Pixel perfection Subscription for reports Power Point exporter
In my opinion Pros Works perfectly across multiple devices Unified Cross platform experience Easy getting started Branding It s free if you have an SQL 2008 enterprise or newer Cons Missing Active Directory Groups No alerts, subscriptions, sharing or logging Limited options for expressions or almost no conditional formatting horrible MDX date handling
SQL 2014+ CREATE MANAGE CONSUME Datazen Publisher SQL Server Report Builder Datazen Server SQL Server Reporting Services Native mode Datazen Web Datazen Windows App Datazen Phone App Datazen Android App Datazen ios App Export your report Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools SQL Server Reporting Services SharePoint integrated mode SSRS reports in native mode SharePoint
SQL Server 2016 BI at GA CREATE MANAGE CONSUME Datazen Publisher SQL Server Report Builder SQL Server Reporting Services Native mode Datazen Server now a component of SSRS Datazen Windows App Datazen Phone App Datazen Android App Datazen ios App Report Manager (paginated and mobile reports) Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools SQL Server Reporting Services SharePoint integrated mode SSRS reports rendered as PDF Pin paginated report elements to Power BI dashboards SharePoint Web
What does this give you? - Active directory support - Branding in SSRS - Licensing is equal to SSRS - Mobile Reports
CREATE MANAGE CONSUME Microsoft Excel Power BI Desktop Power BI Power BI Desktop Microsoft Excel Mobile reports Paginated reports Power BI Web Portal Windows App Android App Datazen Publisher ios App SQL Server Report Builder Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools SQL Server BI Reporting Services Power BI Desktop Mobile reports Paginated reports Report Server Web portal (all BI report types) SharePoint Web
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