Microsoft has developed a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution demo (version 9.2) using SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 technology. This solution enables Business Intelligence for everyone at Contoso (fictional company created by Microsoft) through familiar tools, self–service capabilities, and access to critical business information.
Dan, the CEO of Contoso, is able to get a quick view of his company’s overall performance with scorecards from PerformancePoint services, quickly isolate trouble spots using a custom-built Silverlight application integrated with SQL Server Analysis Services and Bing Maps, and to facilitate a company-wide collaborative initiative to help direct future decision-making using SharePoint 2010.
Toni, the Chief Marketing Officer uses SharePoint 2010 solutions to go behind the numbers to gain insights into the performance of Contoso product sales. With PerformancePoint Services scorecards and dashboards, as well as Reporting Services reports and aggregated SharePoint lists, she is able to perform quick analysis and uncover useful intelligence in fewer clicks. With immediate access to company-wide people and knowledge, she quickly discovers new information about regional marketing strategies that empowers her to make smarter business choices.
Richard, a marketing analyst for Contoso, takes advantage of the self-service analysis tools available from Microsoft to turn data into useful business intelligence. With PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint, he brings data from several sources to create new comparisons that wouldn’t have been possible before and then publishes these new worksheets to a secure online gallery for others in his company to use. Armed with his new insights, he generates a summary report for widespread distribution using Report Builder 3.0 and makes solid recommendations to benefit the upcoming product plan. Even while Richard performs his own self-service analysis, the Contoso IT department is able to monitor and manage the resources needed to support the online PowerPivot Gallery and the workbooks contained there.
Key Features:
• SharePoint 2010 Insights, PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, Visio Services, Reporting Services, Search, Social Relevance, Communities, Team Sites, People Profiles, Blogs, Organizational Browser, Workflows
• Silverlight, integrated with Bing Maps for the Enterprise and SQL Server Analysis Services
• Office 2010 Web Applications, Excel Co-editing
• PowerPivot for SharePoint, Excel
• PowerPivot Management Dashboard
• Report Builder 3.0
• SQL Server 2008 R2 DB Engine
How to access “All up BI Demo 9.2”:
There are two ways to access this demo solution, online remote access to server configured by Microsoft or via configuring virtual machine locally.
Online Solution: Microsoft has configured a remote server for general public to get hands on experience with this new BI version 9.2 solution;
a. Type following url in your internet explorer, http://fs.mssalesdemos.com/
b. Sign in with Windows Live id, create one if you do not have one already
c. Click on “Catalog” from top menu
d. Select “All up BI Demo – Release 9.2” from the list and select hours you want to spend with this solution (right side of the screen) and click start. Application will take few minutes to load the actual machine for you at the bottom.
e. While application prepares the machine for you, you can download the demo script from the main page. You will use this script to get the hands on experience with this solution. You also need to enable ActiveX in your browser for this solution to work.
f. Once machine loads at the bottom of the page, double click on it and it will start the remote session. Sometimes you have to try couple of times to connect.
Virtual Machine Configuration: Second option is to download the VM file from Microsoft Partner’s website. It comes as 42 individual files which you need to extract to get your final 80GB virtual machine file. It was not practical for me to configure this on my local machine because my local machine was not able to meet the requirements. I have listed suggested requirements below from Microsoft;
Requirements:
• Server 2008 R2 RTM with Hyper-V
• 200 GB Free Hard Drive space (High performance disks Preferred)
• Dual Core processor VT enabled
• 8 GB RAM
• Internet Connection
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
