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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

You're reading from   SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook Your one-stop guide to operational reporting and mobile dashboards using SSRS 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461810
Length 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robert Cain Robert Cain
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Dinesh Priyankara Dinesh Priyankara
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Preface 1. Getting It Ready – Configuring Reporting Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Authoring Reports with SQL Server Data Tools 3. Advanced Report Authoring with SQL Server Data Tools 4. Authoring Reports with Report Builder 5. Improving User Experience – New Designing and Visualization Enhancements 6. Authoring Reports with the Mobile Report Publisher 7. Consuming Reports – Report Access Enhancement 8. Reporting Solutions for BI – Integration 9. SharePoint Integration 10. Administering and Managing Reporting Services 11. Securing Reports in Reporting Services 12. Custom Programming and Integration to .NET Applications

Creating a KPI with predefined values


A Key Performance Indicator is a measurable value that indicates the progress of the business and whether the target set is achieved or not. Many business users prefer to see the performance of business objectives established using KPIs rather than reading details of many transactional records because KPIs are always shown as visual indicators and it is easy to understand their status.

They are created by business users, not by developers though it is possible with some implementations. There was no direct support specifically designed for KPIs with previous versions of Reporting Services. Generally, the given data regions such as Gauge were used for adding and showing KPIs and they were always shown inside another data region such as Table or Matrix. Microsoft Reporting Services 2016 facilitates us creating KPIs easily and adding them to reports directly without embedding them to another data region.

Getting ready

Remember, you cannot use SQL Data Tools...

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