BI xPress speeds up BI development and administration by giving you the ability to quickly build packages, install robust auditing frameworks and helps DBAs deploy packages.
Ensure your SSIS packages run as expected and monitor their execution. Take advantage of additional detailed reporting to oversee package performance and proactively take corrective action.
Quickly build packages, avoid repetitive work and take advantage of many development accelerators, all integrated into your familiar BIDS/SSDT development environment.
Quickly create test or sample data in your SQL Server databases. Work with randomly generated data or take advantage of the built-in data lists to generate realistic test data. Leverage your existing data to help generate data that matches your expected values.
Get the monitoring and management features of BI xPress in a web-based server solution. Easily monitor SSRS reports and SSIS packages, dive into performance trends and notify users when packages succeed or fail.
Notification Engine allows you to send notifications to multiple groups or individual people via email, SMS, log files, SQL Scripts, or even Twitter. You can also build your own notification provider to suit your own needs.
Notification Framework Wizard will allow you to create notification event handlers on events for any of the packages in the current solution. You can also choose to be notified on your mobile device by specifying a phone number and service provider.
Package Deployment Wizard gives users more options when deploying SSIS packages. Users can deploy multiple packages at once without having to deploy an entire project.
Provides a way for users to move reports from one Reporting Services instance to another within their domain, allowing an easy deployment of reports from a QA server to a production server simply by dragging and dropping reports.
Report Performance Monitor will give immense insight to the performance of SSRS reports. It compiles a multitude of stats into a concise dashboard that consists of four reports.
Allows organizations to import native SSIS 2012 Catalog logging data into the BI xPress repository. Users no longer have to invasively alter their SSIS packages just to view them like they would within SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Learn More
SSIS Monitoring Console allows you to monitor current or past SSIS executions. You can use control flow diagrams to see package execution visually just like BIDS while you debug packages.
Auditing Framework Command Line allows teams to integrate adding/updating/removing of Auditing Framework with their DevOps (Developer Operations) and build systems such as TFS (Team Foundation Services).
Auditing Framework Wizard will allow you to add, remove, or edit the auditing framework for each of the packages in the solution you are currently working in. You can specify auditing database connection information, generate configuration files for the packages and specify logging options.
Best Practices Analyzer inspects SSIS packages and displays recommendations based on best practices.
BI Compare will show users the differences between two SSIS packages and show details on each object.
When working with packages in a 64 bit environment that were originally created in 32 bit, BIDS may give errors stating “Binary script not found”. To fix this manually, one must open and close each script. BI xPress will allow developers to automate this process and save time by compiling every script within a project. Learn More
Data Generation will investigate a database table schema and offer the user some options about how to populate that column with data.
Expression Highlighter will point out the connection managers and variables that evaluate expressions. It will also indicate which connection managers are using configuration files. Learn More
Expression List lists all objects with expressions along with object name, property name and expression. You can edit each expression by clicking the edit link. BI xPress has a custom Expression Editor which has all of the features from the standard expression editor and a reusable expression snippet library. Learn More
Using Expression Manager, you can add/edit user defined expressions. User defined expressions are listed under "Snippets - My Expressions" node in the expression editor. Learn More
Insert Data Flow Nugget are data flow tasks that have been stored in SSIS packages and can be reused at any time. Learn More
This feature allows you to create complex MDX Calculations in a few clicks from several available MDX templates.
Package Builder helps you to build packages quickly from existing templates. There are 6 different options on the Package Builder Wizard screen. You can create/modify templates or packages using this option.
With this option you can sort packages listed under "SSIS Packages" node in the solution explorer. You can sort packages by name, size and date modified. Learn More
Quick Config Edit allows you open existing configurations from XML files or SQL Table. You can edit, search and save your changes easily using this tool. Learn More
Quick Deploy SSIS Package command allows you to deploy selected packages in one click using predefined target location selection. Unlike other wizards, this wizard runs in a separate thread, so you can work with BIDS while deployment is in progress.
Snippet Wizard is a tool that allows BI developers to insert pre-built and tested functionality into their SSIS packages. Users can insert a task or many tasks that are included with BI xPress or they can build their own for reuse in other SSIS packages.
With the Secure Configuration Manager, you can create secure configurations and add/edit configuration values easily in just a few clicks. You can also generate multiple shared configurations for selected connections and adjust naming convention using the smart rename feature.
Unit testing allows developers, users, and package lifecycle administrators to ensure that a package is performing exactly what the developer implemented and handling unexpected circumstances with predefined behavior. Unit testing allows specified inputs to be used as "source" data and evaluates the task output with expected task output, thereby ensuring the package behaves correctly.
Allows users to write their own scripts and create their own rules.
Variable Copy/Move feature allows you to copy variables from one scope to another within the same or other packages with a single click. Learn More
Find, rename, or delete unused variables. Find dependent objects for selected variables (e.g. Tasks, Precedence Constraints, Connections, Variables with expression, Configurations). Learn More
With the Variable Edit, you can easily edit multi-line text, which is not easily possible with standard BIDS functionality. Learn More
BI xPress is licensed per user, per machine where it is used. BI xPress Server is licensed per server instance with 5 client access licenses included. A client access license is assigned to a single user. Additional client access licenses can be purchased. Please contact sales@pragmaticworks.com for more information.
BI xPress comes bundled and there is no way to only sell one feature of the product.
Yes, you can designate the reason for the message to go out and make your own custom message that you can share with others.
BI xPress Server provides the ability to monitor SSIS package execution as well as Reporting Services, making it easier to provide access to this information without the need to install the full BI xPress Pro software.