Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server

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Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010

Master Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Tools Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 explains how to take full advantage of Microsoft’s collaborative business intelligence (BI) tools. A variety of powerful, flexible technologies are covered, including SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Excel, Excel Services, PowerPivot, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SharePoint Server 2010, PerformancePoint Services, and Master Data Services. This practical guide focuses on deveoloping end-to-end BI solutions that foster informed decision making. Create a multidimensional store for aggregating business data with SSAS Maximize the analysis capabilities of Excel

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Phil Milner says 8 years ago

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Great Book !!!, March 28, 2011

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Phil Milner (Saint Louis MO USA) –

This review is from: Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 (Paperback)

NOTE: source and sample code for book at the DataInspirations web site (see comments section for exact link)

This is a Well-written book on the latest version (R2) of the Microsoft Business Intelligence tools
Additionally, it has two important features that really make it stand out:

1. It explains the whole set of Microsoft BI tools and MS’s vision for BI
2. It explains trends in BI such as how to integrate unstructured data & structured data

The scope of this book is wider than the usual, tool-centric book. That makes it extremely valuable. It’s relatively easy to obtain information on tools. It’s much more difficult to obtain information on using the right tool for the right job. It’s also difficult to obtain simple and comprehensive information on how Microsoft’s tools relate to each other.

Finally, this is a great book for many audiences. Both the new and experienced developer community will benefit from the breath of the information. They will also benefit by seeing how the MS BI tools relate to each other and to glimpsing Microsoft’s BI vision.
These last two features, tool integration and vision, make this a great book for the IT manager or executive. It provides them an overview of Microsoft BI and also provides additional material to pursue that overview.

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Anonymous says 8 years ago

Mixed feelings, January 4, 2015

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Dimitri Shvorob –

This review is from: Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 (Kindle Edition)

I am appreciative of the book’s helicopter tour of Microsoft’s BI-related tools, but there are three reservations. First, the book is showing its age; SSAS Tabular and Power View are two easy-to-spot big omissions, and there are miscellaneous smaller things which a more recent book would mention. Second, the book could use more editing: two particular peeves are hard-to-understand section sequences, and advanced sections in the middle of beginner-friendly text. Finally, the book’s tour, in my opinion, goes too far away from BI – the last three chapters could be dropped altogether, for example – leaving room for a shorter, more focused book to come in and lure away the potential reader. (Brian Larson’s “Delivering business intelligence” is hardly short – and I actually don’t like it that much – but it fits the bill. Incidentally, unlike Larson’s, this book is not especially hands-on, so I don’t join the complaints about missing or problematic sample files, voiced in the comments to the earlier review). At $20, it’s a “Not sure”, but at a lower price, I would endorse the book as a see-if-you-like-it experiment.

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