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PowerView
PowerView is a comprehensive reporting and billing
solution for Microsoft’s Office Communications Server
(OCS). It comes with a wide range of reports, including
reports that track the overall OCS deployment, optimize
the OCS deployment, track the Return on Investment (ROI),
and produce billing or charge-back reports based on the
usage of OCS.
PowerView can be easily customized to
enable enterprises to view reports based on
their own corporate data organization
topologies. For example, OCS deployment
trend reports can be viewed by any
geographical organization such as region,
country, city, campus or building. Billing
reports can be organized the same way
required by corporate finance, whether it’s
by company, department, business unit or
division.
PowerView is easy to install and manage. It leverages
the same infrastructure as OCS, including SQL Server, SQL
Server Reporting Server and SQL Server Integration Services.
Unify Square Consulting can help organizations customize
existing reports or implement to meet their own
requirements. Additionally customers may leverage Report
Builder 2.0 or Business Intelligence Design Studio to
develop their own custom reports leveraging the PowerView
data model and database.
To
obtain an evaluation copy, please contact:
sales@unifysquare.com
PowerView has over 15 different reports
to help you keep track of your deployment and ROI.
Here are a few samples:
 
Voice TrendsUser Trends Over Time
Q: What is PowerView?
PowerView is a comprehensive reporting and billing solution for Microsoft’s Office Communications Server (OCS). It comes with a wide range of reports, including reports that track the overall OCS deployment, optimize the OCS deployment, track the Return on Investment (ROI), and produce billing or charge-back reports based on the usage of OCS.
Q: Which version(s) of Office Communications Server is PowerView supported on?
PowerView 1.0 is supported on Office Communications Server 2007 R2 only. PowerView 2.0, planned for Q1 CY2010, will support both Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Office Communications Server 2007.
Q: We’re running SQL Server 2005 with OCS. Can we still
run PowerView?
Yes. Although PowerView 1.0 leverages SQL Server 2008, it can read data from a wide range of data sources, including SQL Server 2005 R2.
Q: How many servers do I need to run PowerView?
PowerView is designed to run on 1 server. This server will run all components of PowerView. Individual organizations can choose to run the different components of PowerView on different servers. For example, the PowerView database can be run on one server or co-located with other SQL Server databases while the SQL Server Reporting Services components of PowerView can be run on separate computers.
Q: How can PowerView be customized for our corporate data organizational topologies?
PowerView can be easily customized to enable enterprises to view reports based on their own corporate data organization topologies. For example, OCS deployment trend reports can be viewed by any geographical organization such as region, country, city, campus or building. Billing reports can be organized the same way required by corporate finance, whether it’s by company, department, business unit or division. PowerView, through its Data Integration services, can import the business structure hierarchy and geography hierarchy, mapping data from either Active Directory or a wide variety of other data sources including SQL Server, to PowerView. Each of these classification hierarchies can have up to 4 levels in its hierarchical organization. These are used by PowerView for drill downs and report filters. See the PowerView User Guide for more information.
Q: How is by PowerView licensed?
PowerView is licensed for enterprises based on the number of users of OCS. Please contact sales@unifysquare.com for a quote.
Q: Can I use PowerView to perform Real-Time Monitoring of the OCS Deployment?
No. PowerView is designed for reporting. Most organizations will schedule PowerView to access call data from the various OCS databases during non-busy periods (e.g. daily at 3am). However the PowerView data gathering modules (based on SQL Server Integration Services) can be scheduled to run at any interval (as long as it has time to complete). Thus enterprises can have PowerView updated every 1 hour to obtain reports that are closer to real-time.
Q: Can I install PowerView on a Monitoring server?
Yes, if the Monitoring Server is running the right version of SQL Server. However it is recommended that PowerView be installed on a separate server, thus separating it from the OCS production environment.
Q: How can I get support for PowerView?
Contact support@unifysquare.com.
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