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Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010

John Campbell, Mariano Teixeira Neto, Norm Warren, Stacia Misner

Microsoft Press

May 2011

Paperback, 416 pages

ISBN: 0735643407

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On-Site and On-Line Training Courses for Business Analysts

All About Use Cases
How to Analyze and Improve Business Processes
How to Build Business Process Models
How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements
How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Data
How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Processes
Writing Effective Business Requirement Statements

Dive into the business intelligence (BI) features in SharePoint 2010—and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions. This practical guide helps you explore several BI application services available in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server ® 2008 R2. You‘ll learn each technology with step–by–step instructions, and determine which ones work best in specific BI scenarios—whether you‘re a SharePoint administrator, SQL Server developer, or business analyst.

Choose the BI tools that meet your needs—and learn how they work together
Examine the BI lifecycle, from determining key performance indicators to building dashboards
Take Microsoft Excel ® further—gain more control and functionality with web–based Excel Services
Mash up data from multiple sources using PowerPivot for Excel 2010
Create data visualizations with objects, context, and metrics using Microsoft Visio ® Services
Build dashboards, scorecards, and other monitoring and analysis tools with PerformancePoint ® Services
Use SharePoint to view BI reports side by side, no matter which tools were used to produced them

Your companion web content includes:

Interactive exercises that help you try out concepts or techniques
Code samples that enable you to work with the exercises

About the Author:

Norm Warren is a writer for PerformancePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, at Microsoft and has written articles on PerformancePoint® Server for the information worker, IT Pro, and SQL Server® BI developer audiences. He has a Master‘s degree in computer information technology and is currently earning an MBA with an emphasis in financial accounting. At Microsoft, Norm gives guidance to the BI community in the way of a blog, Norm‘s PerformancePoint Server blog (blogs.msdn.com/normbi/). He is also a member of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI).

Peter Serzo (MCSD.Net, MCP, MCTS) is a SharePoint Architect with Trillium Teamologies, Inc. He has significant experience in helping clients build Business Intelligences solutions utilizing the Microsoft SQL Server® product suite. Peter is an active participant in the SharePoint community. He has spoken at every SharePoint Best Practice conference as well as several other national conferences. He has also been published on several leading SharePoint Blogs, including Microsoft‘s, and has written articles published in Technet.

Mariano Teixeira Neto has a BSc and MSc in Computer Science, with research on data synchronization on mobile databases from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. He has 10+ years of experience on software development implementing complex systems for search engine, mobile telephony and oil companies. At Microsoft, he is a Software Development Engineer in Test on the SQL Server Analysis Services team, being part of PowerPivot since its incubation.