Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Busin Intel Micr Sha 2013_p1

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Pearson Education, 2013 M05 15 - 406 pages

Dive into the business intelligence features in SharePoint 2013—and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions.

Take control of business intelligence (BI) with the tools offered by SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Led by a group of BI and SharePoint experts, you’ll get step-by-step instructions for understanding how to use these technologies best in specific BI scenarios—whether you’re a SharePoint administrator, SQL Server developer, or business analyst.

Discover how to:

  • Manage the entire BI lifecycle, from determining key performance indicators to building dashboards
  • Use web-based Microsoft Excel services and publish workbooks on a SharePoint Server
  • Mash up data from multiple sources and create Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) using PowerPivot
  • Create data-driven diagrams that provide interactive processes and context with Microsoft Visio Services
  • Use dashboards, scorecards, reports, and key performance indicators to monitor and analyze your business
  • Use SharePoint to view BI reports side by side, no matter which tools were used to produced them
 

Contents

Business intelligence in SharePoint
1
Planning for business intelligence adoption
21
The lifecycle of a business intelligence implementation
55
Using PowerPivot in Excel 2013
97
Using Power View in Excel 2013
125
Business intelligence with Excel Services 2013
157
Using PowerPivot for SharePoint 2013
189
Using PerformancePoint Services
213
Using Visio and Visio Services
269
Bringing it all together
309
Running scripts to set up a demonstration environment
331
Microsoft and Big Data
349
Index
361
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Ivan Sanders is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint and independent consultant focused on delivering Microsoft SharePoint solutions.

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