Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3

This book provides a developer, designer or architect with a solid foundation of design and architecture of BI concepts with Microsoft Silverlight. It covers key BI design concepts and how they can be applied without requiring an existing BI infrastructure.

Business intelligence (BI) software is the code and tools that allow you to view different components of a business using a single visual platform, making comprehending mountains of data easier. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second generation of BI software, called BI 2.0. This generation is focused on writing BI software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive.

As computers and software have evolved, more data can be presented to end users with increasingly visually rich techniques. Rich Internet application (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight can be used to transform traditional user interfaces filled with boring data into fully interactive analytical applications to deliver insight from large data sets quickly. Furthermore, RIAs include 3D spatial design capabilities that allow for interesting layouts of aggregated data beyond a simple list or grid. BI 2.0 implemented via RIA technology can truly bring out the power of BI and deliver it to an average user via the Web.

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Rich Internet Applications provides developers, designers, and architects a solid foundation of BI design and architecture concepts with Microsoft Silverlight. This book covers key BI design concepts and how they can be applied without requiring an existing BI infrastructure. The author, Bart Czernicki, will show you how to build small BI applications by example that are interactive, highly visual, statistical, predictive, and most importantly, intuitive to the user.

BI isn't just for the executive branch of a Fortune 500 company; it is for the masses. Let Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Rich Internet Applications show you how to unlock the rich intelligence you already have.

Business intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Rich Internet Applications brings you up to speed with the latest BI concepts.

Autorentext
Bart Czernicki has been playing around with computers since 1988 and has spent years as a professional in the information technology field. He currently works as a senior software architect at a software development company.

Inhalt
Business Intelligence 2.0 Defined.- Advantages of Applying Business Intelligence 2.0 Using Microsoft Silverlight.- Silverlight As a Business Intelligence Client.- Adding Interactivity to Business Intelligence Data.- to Data Visualizations.- Creating Data Visualizations for Analysis.- Enhancing Visual Intelligence in Silverlight.- Applying Collective Intelligence.- Predictive Analytics (What-If Modeling).- Improving Performance with Concurrent Programming.- Integrating with Business Intelligence Systems.