Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Analytics & Data Visualization

by Doug Harts, Jim Dugan, Tricia Almas

Effectively convey meaningful business insights to users across your enterprise with help from this practical guide. Written by a team of business intelligence experts, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analytics & Data Visualization shows how to achieve greater information absorption using the latest reporting tools. Learn how to build maps and gauges, integrate OLAP data, and develop dashboards. Security, performance tuning, and cloud computing techniques are also covered in this comprehensive resource. Doug Harts is a Services Executive at Microsoft currently helping U.S. Federal agencies implement Microsoft technology roadmaps. He is the author of Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence , and maintains a BI community website at www.OfficeBIcentral.com. Jim Dugan is a Solutions Architect with the Microsoft Healthcare and Benefits team in Microsoft Federal. He previously served as Technical Director of Microsoft's Technology and Innovation Center in Reston, Virginia. Tricia Wilcox Almas is a Technical Architect for Business Intelligence Solutions for MicroLink, LLC, a Microsoft Gold Partner. She has been developing solutions and managing IT projects for more than 25 years.

576 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 2009

Reviews

[Ariadna73 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book. Helpful even for those who don't have the software (that is my case) but useful to extract very intelligent quotes that I will incorporate in my business plans and proposals.