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Introduction to Microsoft Tools for Business Intelligence: Hands-On

Integrating SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint and PerformancePoint
 
Course: 146   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Achieve an end-to-end business intelligence solution using the Microsoft toolset
  • Consolidate enterprise data into SQL Server Analysis Services cubes
  • Perform data mining with Microsoft Office Excel
  • Build dashboards, scorecards and KPIs for easy visualization of business performance
  • Map business processes into a cycle of monitoring, analyzing and planning with PerformancePoint
  • Deliver and share reports throughout the enterprise with SharePoint Services

Course Benefits

Business Intelligence is not a software program, but the application of software technologies that enables business users to make better and faster decisions based on enterprise data. In this course, you are introduced to the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite of software technologies. You learn how to build and integrate Microsoft tools into an end-to-end solution in order to achieve competitive business advantage.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who is involved or interested in planning, monitoring, analyzing or implementing business processes using Microsoft Business Intelligence tools. Knowledge of business fundamentals is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on exercises provide practical experience working with Business Intelligence tools. Exercises include:
  • Reviewing a finished BI solution
  • Creating a KPI within a cube
  • Publishing an Excel workbook to SharePoint
  • Building a scorecard with Dashboard Designer
  • Forecasting trends with data mining techniques
  • Designing a dashboard in SharePoint
  • Visualizing data with PerformancePoint analytic grids and charts

Related Courses

 
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Jan 28 - 30, 2009
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Feb 25 - 27, 2009
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Mar 11 - 13, 2009
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Apr 22 - 24, 2009
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Introduction to Microsoft Tools for Business Intelligence: Hands-On

Integrating SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint and PerformancePoint
 
Course: 146   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 146 Content
 

Introducing Business Intelligence (BI)

Proposing an integrated solution

  • Identifying problems with current business practices as they relate to Business Intelligence
  • Aligning business objectives at all levels of the enterprise
  • Introducing the Microsoft BI vision and strategy

Identifying components of the Microsoft BI platform

  • SQL Server
  • Integration Services
  • Analysis Services
  • Reporting Services
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
  • Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server

Collecting BI Data with Integration Services

Integrating data from multiple sources

  • Connecting to external data sources
  • Creating a package for data imports

Working with Integration Services in a data warehouse

  • Populating a star and snowflake schema in SQL Server with Integration Services
  • Automating package execution from the command line

Leveraging SQL Server Relational Engine

  • Denormalizing into star or snowflake schemas
  • Introducing surrogate keys
  • Dealing with slowly changing dimensions

Leveraging SQL Server Analysis Services

Defining and building a cube

  • Facts
  • Dimensions
  • Hierarchies
  • Measures
  • Creating a cube with Analysis Services wizards
  • Denormalizing the database
  • Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Extracting insight with data mining

  • Determining data mining algorithms for specific business data problems
  • Utilizing data mining to perform targeted marketing

Presenting Data with Reporting Services

Authoring a basic report

  • Building Tabular and Matrix reports with the Report Wizard
  • Creating a report based on an Analysis Services cube

Taking advantage of interactivity

  • Implementing drill down/up and expand/collapse
  • Exporting to other formats such as Excel

Exploiting Excel for Predictive Analysis

Creating models for data mining

  • Preparing and cleaning input data
  • Partitioning data into training and testing sets
  • Applying available models to solve business problems

Pivoting table data

  • Creating charts and pivot tables from different data sources
  • Connecting to Analysis Services with Excel
  • Drilling down to multiple levels of detail

Publishing reports and models

  • Saving a workbook to a SharePoint document library
  • Viewing an Excel workbook from a Web browser

Delivering BI through SharePoint

Identifying the components of SharePoint

  • Comparing WSS and MOSS
  • Benefits of the BI tools available in MOSS

Preparing to display BI data in SharePoint

  • Creating a Report Builder report
  • Deploying data sources to a data source library
  • Uploading reports to a report library

Displaying dashboards

  • Building a SharePoint dashboard
  • Embedding KPIs and reports
  • Loading BI Web Parts

Smarter Decisions with PerformancePoint

Monitoring enterprise health

  • Creating dashboards for displaying company data
  • Building scorecards to provide an overall rating of the organization
  • Including specific KPIs to identify target areas

Analyzing organizational performance

  • Presenting Analysis Services queries in chart view
  • Visualizing analytic charts, grids and strategy maps

Planning for future competitive advantage

  • Leveraging the built-in dimensions and hierarchies to create models
  • Adding business rules with SQL or MDX
 
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Introduction to Microsoft Tools for Business Intelligence: Hands-On Tuition

Integrating SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint and PerformancePoint
 
Course: 146   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

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