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29 Jun 09 2797A Designing a Reporting Solution Architecture Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

About this Course

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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.

The course focuses on the planning and design aspects of a reporting solution and does not teach you how to create reports or how to use the development tools provided with SQL Server 2005.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for experienced BI professionals. The target students for this course already have an understanding of how to use the SQL Server 2005 tools to implement reporting functionality, but need to develop their understanding of design principles and best practices when planning, implementing, and deploying a Reporting Services solution.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students 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.

Course OutlineModule 1: Designing a Reporting Solution

In this module, students will learn how to identify user requirements and business requirements for a reporting solution. They will then learn how to match the requirements of the user to Reporting Services technologies.

Lessons

Evaluating Business Requirements for a Reporting Solution
Designing for Reporting Services

Lab : Designing a Reporting Solution

Identifying Reporting Solution Users
Creating a Reporting Solution Specification

Module 2: Developing a Reporting Solution

In this module, students will first identify how best to develop reports using the powerful Business Intelligence Development Studio Report Designer tool. This will include a review of best practice for report layout, and how this is affected by the various rendering formats available. Secondly, they will identify the considerations for effective development of a report model to enable more experienced users to create their own reports.

Lessons

Developing Reports
Developing Report Models

Lab : Developing a Reporting Solution

Creating Reports from a Report Specification
Working With Report Models

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create a Reporting Services solution.
Create a report model and use it to create a report with Report Builder.

Module 3: Integrating Reporting Services with Applications

In this module, students will review the options for integrating Reporting Services reports into a custom application. They will look at using direct URL access, the report viewer controls provided by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the Reporting Services SharePoint Web Parts, and the Reporting Services Web services. Lastly, they will discuss which approach, or combination of approaches, might suit different BI applications and their different kinds of users.

Lessons