posted 9/29/2010 by BrianKnight - Views: [2336]
As an author, nothing professionally beats the excitement you receive when you receive the box of pre-release books from the publisher. It's the cap on many months of late nights writing and editing chapters and in this case creating videos. Then, there's silence for months where you hear nothing.....until the box arrives. Last week, I finally received the fabled box of my latest book that I co-wrote with Devin Knight, Adam Jorgensen, Patrick LeBlanc, and Mike Davis called Knight's Microsoft Business Intelligence 24 Hour Trainer.
The book walks a beginner or novice through the entire BI stack in lesson form, including the SharePoint interface. It also shows you how to complete each lesson in video form if you learn better visually. Here's some more info about it:
An ideal starting point for anyone new to the world of Business Intelligence (BI), this unique book-and-DVD package introduces you to the Microsoft BI toolset and provides you with information you need to perform basic business analysis and reporting with Excel and SharePoint. The expert authors begin with a basic primer on BI and data modeling and go on to show you step by step how to use SQL Server Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Excel BI (including PowerPivot), and SharePoint. Each lesson in the book has an accompanying tutorial on the DVD, making your learning experience thorough and understandable.
Knight's Microsoft Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer:
Breaks down data warehousing and Business Intelligence into digestible pieces
Escorts you through solving common scenarios involving SQL Server Integration Services
Details the ways to configure a data source and a data source view in SQL Server Analysis Services
Demonstrates how to develop, deploy, and administer SQL Server Reporting Services, use maps in your report, and build a matrix report or dashboard
Teaches you to deploy and use Reporting Services, Excel Services, and PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010
Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
On the DVD
Don't just learn—do!
The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.
You'll learn to:
Use control flow and data flow
Solve common SSIS scenarios
Load dimensions as well as a fact table
Configure a data source and a data source view
Add new dimensions and measure groups
Create calculations
Build a matrix report
Deploy and administer SSRS
Use Report Builder
Load data into a PowerPivot workbook
Deploy and use Reporting Services in SharePoint 2010
See more info about it here:
http://ow.ly/2L6Bw