PowerPivot for Business Intelligence using Excel and SharePoint

Barry Ralston - Collection The Expert's Voice in Office SharePoint

304 pages, parution le 30/03/2011

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Résumé

PowerPivot comprises a set of technologies for easy access to data mining and business intelligence analysis from Microsoft Excel and SharePoint. Power users and developers alike can create sophisticated, online analytic processing (OLAP) solutions using PowerPivot for Excel, and then share those solutions with other users via PowerPivot for SharePoint. Data can be pulled in from any of the leading database platforms, as well as from spreadsheets and flat files.

PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint is your key to mastering PowerPivot. The book takes a scenario-based approach to showing you how to collect data, to mine that data through insightful analysis, and to draw conclusions that drive business performance. Each chapter in the book is focused on a specific challenge that you'll encounter when using PowerPivot. Each chapter takes you through a solution technique that's been proven in the real world.

Covers the leading technology for bringing data analytics to the desktop
Presents real-world solutions to real-world scenarios
Written by a Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist (VTS) for Business Intelligence

What you'll learn

Install and verify the PowerPivot software
Integrated existing, available data to deliver business intelligence
Leverage Time Intelligence to report change over time
Write Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to create custom measures
Identify and implement solutions for role-playing dimensions
Recognize and work-around PowerPivot's missing features

Who this book is for

PowerPivot Solutions for Excel and SharePoint is aimed at information workers and data analysts who typically use Excel to drive business decisions. The book shows how you can apply PowerPivot to problems typically addressed through complicated and arcane spreadsheet techniques. Business people without the time and interest in learning Excel arcane will especially appreciate how PowerPivot enables them to easily create models and perform analysis far in advance of anything they could do using Excel alone.

L'auteur - Barry Ralston

Barry Ralston is Chief Architect for Business Intelligence with Birmingham-based ComFrame Software. Barry is also Microsoft's Virtual Technical Specialist (VTS) for Business Intelligence, responsible for assisting in Alabama, Mississippi, and Northwest Florida in sales efforts including customer meetings, software demonstrations and Proof of Concept efforts. Barry's client successes include: American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Bank of Hawaii, Honda Manufacturing of Alabama and Aflac.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Apress
Auteur(s)	Barry Ralston
Collection	The Expert's Voice in Office SharePoint
Parution	30/03/2011
Nb. de pages	304
Format	18 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	522g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781430233800
ISBN13	978-1-4302-3380-0