Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies 1st Edition by Ken Withee (PDF)

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Learn to create an effective business strategy using Microsoft’s BI stackMicrosoft Business Intelligence tools are among the most widely used applications for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data to enable the enterprise to make sound business decisions. The tools include SharePoint Server, the Office Suite, PerformancePoint Server, and SQL Server, among others.With so much jargon and so many technologies involved, Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies provides a much-needed step-by-step explanation of what’s involved and how to use this powerful package to improve your business.Microsoft Business Intelligence encompasses a broad collection of tools designed to help business owners and managers direct the enterprise effectivelyThis guide provides an overview of SharePoint, PerformancePoint, the SQL Server suite, Microsoft Office, and the BI development technologiesExplains how the various technologies work together to solve functional problemsTranslates the buzzwords and shows you how to create your business strategyExamines related technologies including data warehousing, data marts, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), data mining, reporting, dashboards, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)Simplifies this complex package to get you up and running quicklyMicrosoft Business Intelligence For Dummies demystifies these essential tools for enterprise managers, business analysts, and others who need to get up to speed.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover The book that beats the buzzwords! At last, understand BI and what it can do for your businessBuzzwords, begone! This book looks beyond the jargon at real business problems and common-sense solutions. Data is the lifeblood of your business. Microsoft BI tools help you collect that data; sort, store, and analyze it; find it when you need it; and use it to make decisions. You’ll understand terms like “OLAP cube” and “data mart” — at last!It’s all about the right tools — learn which BI technologies can solve specific issues for your businessRealistic expectations — get a clear understanding of what you expect to achieve with BIMeet the parts — see how the SQL Server technologies, presentation technologies, and development/customization technologies work togetherThe right edge — support decision-making by using BI to get the right data to the right person at the right timeStoring this stuff — understand how data warehouses and data marts make it easier to manage and retrieve dataThe tool on your desktop — discover how to use Excel® for data analysis and data miningMaking it work — create a logical plan for BI implementation, know what you need and what you don’t, and get stakeholders on boardOpen the book and find:BI tools that are already hiding in your softwareHow to manage the data life cycleTips for evaluating and choosing technologiesWhat you can do with Dashboards and ScorecardsNearly a dozen data mining algorithmsWays to display and analyze dataAdvice on testing and rolling out your BI strategyKeys to making BI successfulLearn to:Apply the latest Microsoft technologies and use them togetherCreate an effective strategy to solve business problemsWork with the SQL Server product suiteUse the new SharePoint Business Intelligence tools About the Author Ken Withee is a Microsoft SharePoint and Business Intelligence consultant and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. He is certified in SharePoint, SQL Server, and .NET. Among his many published works are a book on SSRS 2008 and a featured article on Self-Serve Business Intelligence in The Architecture Journal.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Easy to read, and writen for those that are not experts on BI. I used as complement to a BI trainning lead by an instructor and book helped me well as support material.

⭐not practical much, just to pre-entry induction

⭐As someone working on a Microsoft certification, I needed to gain a better understanding of Microsoft’s BI technologies without having to wade through tech jargon and geek acronyms. This book was the perfect reference material for me. I love how this book’s content is organized. You won’t have to flounder trying to catch up. The beginning, middle, and end approach makes the experience equal to curling up with a great book as opposed to “studying” tech reference material. Perhaps the biggest bonus for me was the section on Implementation Plan comparing waterfall and agile methodologies. Actually, scrap that. The biggest bonus for me was the author’s sense of humor. I can’t wait to use a bunch of funny one-liners I “stole” from the book!P.S. I started crimping pages I thought were really important and realized I was doing that every other page, so I stopped crimping and decided to just keep the book with me all the time.

⭐This book came out in April 2010 and claims to be about the “latest Microsoft technologies”.A mere two months later this wasn’t true. The book looks at the 2007 products (came out at the very beginning of 2007) and not the 2010 products. So for instance it looks at PerformancePoint Server which as a product no longer exists having been incorporated into SharePoint Server 2010.So it’s a case of a book being published far too late for most people.It’s particularly cheeky of the Publishers (I don’t blame the cover blurb on the author – hence the two stars not one) to make that claim about the latest Microsoft technologies when the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 products had already been out for six months in beta and were already known to be reaching RTM in the first half of 2010.

⭐I am highly impressed with the author’s ability to connect the technology to the way people need to make decisions. I now feel competent to have an educated dialogue with my consultant. It is well organized, starts at the beginning and I’ll keep it around as a reference as well.

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⭐Very prompt delivery of this product. This product was exactly what it was stated to be. GOOD. I highly recommend the service provided.

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