Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007

Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007 is written by a Microsoft-employed PerformancePoint expert, and he walks the reader through the entire product. The book develops a soup-to-nuts BI solution that keeps the reader engaged.

Organizations are expected to spend $26 billion on business intelligence initiatives in 2008. Now that all the data is in relational databases, it's time to start getting value at the organizational level from that data. Microsoft has a host of tools to provide easy access to aggregated business data from multiple back ends and to display that data in comprehensive, easy-to-read graphics and reports, namely PerformancePoint Server. This book, written by a Microsoft-employed PerformancePoint expert, walks the reader through the entire product. The book takes the development angle, not the use and administration angle, and develops a soup-to-nuts BI solution that keeps the reader engaged.

The business intelligence market has grown to a $26 billion space in 2008, and corporations are looking for tools to plan, analyze, and forecast their data Microsoft has a BI product, PerformancePoint, and our proven author who works on the Microsoft Federal sales team works with the product every day and knows it Our book takes the development angle, not the use and administration angle, and develops a soup-to-nuts BI solution that keeps the reader engaged, unlike competitors

Autorentext
Philo Janus is a senior technology specialist with Microsoft. Over the years, he has presented InfoPath to thousands of users and developers, and assisted with enterprise implementations of InfoPath solutions. With that background, he is particularly sensitive to the difficulties users and developers have had with InfoPath. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1989 to face a challenging career in the U.S. Navy. After driving an aircraft carrier around the Pacific Ocean and a guided missile frigate through both the Suez and Panama canals, and serving in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, a small altercation between his bicycle and an auto indicated a change of career (some would say that landing on his head in that accident would explain many things). Philo's software development career started with building a training and budgeting application in Access 2.0 in 1995. Since then, he's worked with Oracle, Visual Basic, SQL Server, and .NET building applications for federal agencies, commercial firms, and conglomerates. In 2003, he joined Microsoft as a technology specialist evangelizing Office as a development platform.

Klappentext

Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007 is Microsoft's latest product in its line of business intelligence applications, a piece of software that gathers data from corporate databases and delivers it to an end user in a friendly, graphical fashion. PerformancePoint offers the next step in the digitization world. Businesses now have gigabytes upon terabytes of data in databases; there's a need to interpret the data and glean key business insights from it and PerformancePoint. Author Philo Janus walks you through the business process management and architecture of the PerformancePoint product before delving into developing a complete business intelligence solution, from start to finish.

Inhalt
Business Intelligence.- Overview of Microsoft's Business Intelligence Platform.- SQL Server.- SQL Server Integration Services.- SQL Server Analysis Services.- SQL Server Reporting Services.- Data Mining.- Business Intelligence in Excel and SharePoint.- ProClarity Analytics Server.- PerformancePoint Monitoring.- Advanced Scorecarding.- Dashboards and Reports.- Planning.- Management Reporter.