Microsoft 2797 - Designing a Reporting Solution Architecture Using – Salt Lake City

2-day hands-on training at The MindCenter: 5505 S 900 E Plaza 1, Ste 225, Salt Lake City.
 
At the end of 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 Outline:

Module 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 1: Designing a Reporting Solution
• Identifying Reporting Solution Users
• Creating a Reporting Solution Specification

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Evaluate the business requirements for a reporting solution.
• Design a Reporting Services implementation.

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 2: 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
• Integrating with Custom Applications
• Controlling Reporting Services by Using Web Services

Lab 3: Integrating Reporting Services with Applications
• Integrating Reports into an ASP.NET Application.
• Integrating a Report into a SharePoint Services Solution
• Implementing a Reporting Services Web Service Client

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Integrate Reporting Services with custom applications.
• Design Web service clients for Reporting Services.

Module 4: Deploying and Managing a Reporting Solution
In this module, students will learn how to deploy a Reporting Services solution into a production environment,
and how to manage report distribution.

Lessons
• Deploying a Reporting Services Solution
• Managing Report Distribution

Lab 4: Managing Report Deployment and Distribution
• Deploying Reports
• Managing Report Distribution

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Deploy a Reporting Services solution.
• Manage Report Distribution.

Module 5: Designing Security for a Reporting Solution
In this module, students will learn how to secure a Reporting Services solution.

Lessons
• Designing an Authentication Strategy
• Designing an Authorization Strategy
• Designing a Secure Communication Strategy

Lab 5: Securing Reporting Services
• Configuring Authentication
• Configuring Authorization
• Configuring Secure Communications

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Design an authentication strategy for Reporting Services.
• Design an authorization strategy for Reporting Services.
• Design a secure communication strategy for Reporting Services.

Module 6: Optimizing Report Performance
In this module, students will learn how to optimize a Reporting Services solution.

Lessons
• Monitoring Report Execution
• Designing a Report Execution Strategy
• Scaling Reporting Services

Lab 6: Optimizing Performance
• Monitoring Reporting Services
• Optimizing Report Execution
• Scaling Reporting Services

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Monitor report execution.
• Design a report execution strategy to optimize performance.
• Design a scalability strategy for Reporting Services.

*All classes subject to change