New Features in SQL Server 2014

By : Fahad Latif24th Oct, 2013 1

Visualize and interact with data in bold new ways with Power View.

Quickly generate reports using intuitive interfaces and extend reporting to the cloud with Windows Azure SQL Reporting.

Create self-service reports with a wide variety of formats. Simplify sharing and collaboration to get more value from

existing tools and skills. T-SQL improvement and enhancements

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What's was New in SQL Server 2012

Microsoft steps closer to delivering in-memory performance with a second beta release of Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Here's a peek at what's coming.

Microsoft's in-memory database project formerly known as Hekaton took a step closer to general release on Wednesday as the company introduced a second community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2014.

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SQL Server 2014 CTP1,CTP2

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When Can We Get The Bits?

SQL Server 2014 released a preview in September 2013, and is scheduled to be released for general availability in early 2014.

Enhancements in SQL Server 2014

Database EngineAnalysis Services and Business IntelligenceReplicationReporting Services

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Enhancements in SQL Server 2014

Database EngineAnalysis Services and Business IntelligenceReplicationReporting Services

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Analysis Services and Business Intelligence

New features and Enhancements in Sql Server 2014

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BI enhancement and new feature(s)

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SSRS

New features and Enhancements in Sql Server 2014

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SSRS

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Picture worth a thousand words….

Key Capabilities

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Immersive interactive data visualization with power view

Professional, Precisely Formatted Reports Robust Management and Scalability

Immersive interactive data visualization with power view

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Power View Support for Power View in Microsoft Excel 2013 and Power

View in Microsoft SharePoint 2013. SharePoint mode report server

A SQL Server 2012 SP1 Reporting Services report server in SharePoint mode supports SharePoint 2013

Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint products A new version of the Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint

that supports SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010. View and interact with reports on iOS devices

Interactively view reports in Apple Safari on iOS devices. Features support includes expand/collapse, the parameter pane, and interactive sorting

Immersive interactive data visualization with power view Cont..

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Self-service reporting has never been so engaging. Create compelling visualizations of your data that

are presentation ready at all times. Inspire users with an immersive ad-hoc reporting

environment that enables faster insights. Share insights with tight SharePoint integration that

enables unique collaborative capability.

Professional, Precisely Formatted Reports

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Create pixel-perfect professional reports using familiar tools and interfaces. Enable IT professionals to create reports seamlessly with

Report Builder, a fully-featured authoring tool with familiar Microsoft Office look and feel.

Render reports to a variety of formats, including the new Office format for Word and Excel, as well as PDF, TIFF, and HTML.

Enable sharing of objects for faster, more agile report development with Report Parts.

Robust Management and Scalability

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Simplify reporting management and easily scale reports on-premises or in the cloud. Make it easier to manage your reporting environment with

seamless SharePoint integration. Execute scheduled reports, easily manage report

subscriptions, and effortlessly control access to generated reports.

Scale reporting environment from a few reports to a corporate wide deployment with thousands concurrent users and tens of thousands of reports.

Report data with Windows Azure SQL Reporting for easy management using familiar tools, such as SQL Server Data Tools and broad scale.

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To The Cloud!SQL Server 2014 will offer users more integration with Windows Azure.

Users will be able to take a backup of a database and save it to an Azure storage account by pointing to a URL. There is also the Smart Backup feature, allowing SQL Server to decide if it is time to take a differential or transaction log backup.

Users will also be able to create a database in an on-premises instance, but have the data and log files reside in Azure.

Users will also be able to extend an AlwaysOn Availability Group by creating replicas stored in a virtual machine running in Windows Azure.

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Power View(SSRS)

New features and Enhancements in Sql Server 2014

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Power View (2012) limitations

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Power View reports can only be created over the tabular models in BISM.

No support for creating reports using multidimensional UDM models.

Power View for Multidimensional Models

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Microsoft introduced an interactive data exploration, visualization and presentation experience called Power View with SQL Server 2012.

Power View reports are presentation-ready at all times because they are always connected to your data. 

 Users can quickly create a variety of visualizations, from tables and matrices to bubble charts and sets of small multiple charts. 

It provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers.

We can easily create and interact with views of data from data models based on Power Pivot workbooks published in a Power Pivot Gallery, or tabular models deployed to SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (SSAS) instances.

Power View for Multidimensional Models

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based on customer feedback helps customers maximize their existing BI investments by enabling

their use with the latest BI end-user tools and adds greater modeling flexibility to the BI Semantic Model. 

Customers need to upgrade their Analysis Services instance and the Reporting Services add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server (2010 or 2013) with this Cumulative Update to create Power View reports against their existing cubes. 

The BI Semantic Model is one model for all end user experiences – reporting, analytics, scorecards, dashboards, and custom applications.  All client tools in the Microsoft BI stack – Excel, Power Pivot, SharePoint Insights and Reporting Services (including Crescent) – operate on this model.

BI Semantic Model

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Power View v/s Report Builder

Power View

Capabilities Visual data representation High interaction Rich Presentation Can be exported in

PowerPoint

Targeted User Business Users/Power

Users End users Developers IT pros.

Report Builder

Capabilities Productive Authoring Re-use of Insights Flexible Layout

Targeted User Business Users/Power

Users Developers IT pros.

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Power View v/s Report Builder cont.…

Power View Accessibility

Browser with Silverlight

Report Builder Accessibility

Separate MSI

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Any Questions ?

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