Tài liệu Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005 docx

[...]... Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife and three kids When he is not in the classroom, consulting on messaging or security matters, or spending time with his family, he can be found either strumming a guitar or building a new one He can be contacted at bob@piercingblue.com Chapter 1 Introduction to Business Intelligence Before looking at building Business Intelligence (BI) solutions with SQL Server 2005, it's important... potential value without consideration of the work that is required within an organization Simply building a BI capability doesn't mean that it will easily be able to move off the whiteboards and out of the server rooms and into the hands of a user community that is ready and prepared to do something with the information The best BI solutions pay as much attention to the "business" as the "intelligence, "... difficult to quantify, and the best approach in putting together a business case is usually to describe those areas without trying to assign financial numbers Some of the most successful BI projects are aligned with business initiatives so that the cost of the BI system can be factored into the overall cost of the business initiative and compared with its tangible benefits ... at some modeling techniques and technologies for providing the performance and flexibility that users need We end the chapter by providing some practical project advice and point out some of the pitfalls of BI projects What Is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence is a set of concepts, methods, and technologies designed to pursue the elusive goal of turning all the widely separated data in an... Roger Toren is a Principal Consultant with MCS, based in Vancouver, Canada, focusing on guiding customers in the design and implementation of Business Intelligence solutions with SQL Server 2005 He was the lead author on the SQL Server 2000 High Availability guide He has more than 35 years of experience in IT, covering a wide variety of industries, including banking, insurance, retail, education, health... systems use business keys, this means that one important step in the ETL process is to translate the business keys in the incoming transaction records into data warehouse surrogate keys before inserting the new fact records You also need to keep the original business key on the dimension record in addition to the new surrogate key In some cases, users have become used to working with some business keys... including business people on the team: Users usually can't tell you what they want from a BI solution until they see something that is wrong The way to deal with this is to include lots of early prototyping and let the business representatives on the team help the technical people get it right before you show it to all the users If you get this wrong and produce a solution without appropriate business. .. building a huge data warehouse with some cubes and deploying a fancy BI client tool As discussed earlier, we favor a business valuebased approach using smaller, targeted projects instead Assuming that you manage to deliver a solution that the business can use as part of their decision-making process, you must accept that the BI solution starts to get out of sync with the business on the day that you... of intelligence systems for law enforcement Prior to Microsoft, he worked as an independent consultant in the United Kingdom and South Africa He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in mathematics and computer science Roger Toren is a Principal Consultant with MCS, based in Vancouver, Canada, focusing on guiding customers in the design and implementation of Business Intelligence solutions with. .. iterative approach of short (three months or so) projects that focus on one specific business case This approach has a lot of benefits in that it provides opportunity for improvement and learning through the different phases and can more easily adapt to changing business conditions as well as delivering business value along with way Instead of thinking about BI as a single large project that can deliver . applications • Get hands-on practice with SQL Server 2005& apos;s BI toolset Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005 By John C. Hancock, Roger Toren . applications • Get hands-on practice with SQL Server 2005& apos;s BI toolset Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005 By John C. Hancock, Roger Toren