Introduction

The purpose of this 2 day course is to teach Business Intelligence (BI) professionals working in enterprise environments to design a reporting solution architecture that supports their BI solution. Students will go through the entire process-from identifying report data to promoting the reporting solution to production. Students will scale a reporting solution. Students will also be taught best practices for collaborating with application developers to integrate applications and reporting services.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Have hands-on experience with database development tasks.
• Have foundational conceptual understanding of Business Intelligence presentation architecture.
• Have built Reporting Services reports with Visual Studio, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio.
• Have foundational understanding of Web-based architecture and Microsoft Windows security.
• Already know how to use SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Performance Monitor, SQL Server Profiler, Report Builder and Report Manager.

Outcomes

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Design a reporting solution.
• Develop a reporting solution.
• Collaborate with application developers to complete reporting and analytical interfaces.
• Deploy and manage a Reporting Services solution.
• Design security for a Reporting Services solution.
• Optimize report execution performance.