embracing a microsoft business intelligence solution

... and data-led discovery usually start with summarized data, data mining works at the lowest level of detail Highly sophisticated mathematical algorithms are applied to the data to find correlations ... it into a business intelligence warehouse, when necessary, to ensure we have accurate information available in a timely manner Numerous online analytical processing (OLAP) features, such as Key ... the America, and even passed that warning on to a land-based wireless station This message was received hours ahead of the collision—plenty of time to take precautions and avoid the tragedy Because

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 16:15

... Mart Because the data mart is meant to serve as a source for business intelligence rather than managing the organization’s day-to-day transactions, it is not designed the same as an OLTP database. ... when data is output for analysis and reporting. In a data mart, it is acceptable to have data repeated (denormalized) for the sake of speed. When designing a data mart, the rules of normalization ... database. Instead of being built around the rules of normalization, data marts are built for speed of access. A data mart is still a relational database, but it is designed to require fewer table

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 22:20

... preference and recommendation data, 230 defined, 229–30 discrete sequence data, 230 image data, 230 multivariate data, 231–32 relational data, 232 spatio-temporal data, ... software solution ... http://www.microsoft.com/BUSINESS/km/casestudies/fosterparents.asp Foster Parents Plan of Canada—Knowledge Management Case Study. Fos- ter Parents Plan uses a Microsoft-based data warehouse to obtain ... http://www.microsoft.com/BUSINESS/km/casestudies/ harperccollins.asp Learn how HarperCollins switched to a Microsoft-based data warehouse to digitally track daily sales and distribute consistent, accurate sales data to key

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 22:20

... users read and write external data into Microsoft SharePoint and into Microsoft. .. xv SharePoint Administrator Just as a SQL BI developer peeks into SharePoint 2 010 products, we want ... SharePoint administrators to peek into the tasks involved in developing BI solutions and the inherent difficulty in getting to trusted data A SharePoint administrator must be aware that ... service application that you can use to manage, view, interact, and consume Microsoft Excel client workbooks on SharePoint Server ■ PerformancePoint Services  A performance management...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... used tool for analysis is Microsoft Excel 2010. A power analyst can group and lter data in a pivot table and create additional calculations to supplement analysis of the data. If analysis requires ... interaction. Typically, this information comes from approved data sources that have been staged, trans- formed, and restructured into a data warehouse. Ideally, this data has also been incorporated ... as a power user, requiring a more analytical BI tool for daily work. It’s also possible that this same person has access to data in another depart- ment but is less familiar with that data.

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... credential retrieval. Basically, SSS stores credentials in a secure way that makes them available to service appli- cations like Excel Services to use for things such as data refresh. An administrator ... fact-based support systems have often been data-driven analytics and reporting tools developed by database administrators (DBAs) and developers,... conditional formatting,” on page 04xx ■ Share ... to calculate a particular set of values in a particular way They are also great mechanisms to use for performing other tasks in the system or in another system Some UDF examples I have

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... example creates a relationship between tables imported from Azure DataMarket on the web and data imported from a relational database. Calculations with DAX DAX formulas are designed to be as ... illustra- tion. You can also create and manage relationships between tables, as discussed in the next section. Enhancing and Analyzing the Data 147 Relationships A relationship is an association ... similar as possible to Excel formulas. Just as in Excel, all DAX formulas begin with an assignment operator, such as an equals sign (=), but DAX works with tables (as in a database) rather than

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... displays a Project Management dia- gram that shows organization and team performance with a PivotDiagram. You can break down data from Excel across different performance dimensions to create a ... delivering visualization that can connect to SharePoint lists, Excel workbooks, SQL Server data, custom data adapters, and a variety of other data, depending on the data provider that is available. ... Connect to a data source. 2. Link shapes to data. 3. Display linked data graphically. 4. Refresh linked data that has changed in the data source to update linked shapes to resolve any subsequent

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... and then you can generate a chart from that data. Use Excel Services in the Dashboard 271 To add a pivot table to a workbook 1. Start the data connection wizard in Excel, click the Data tab, ... Web Parts on a dashboard page, you need a way to lter the data on the page at the same time. You can use a SharePoint lter to do this. A SharePoint lter is yet another Web Part on the page ... that SharePoint has provided to build dashboard pages that use Web Parts. Web Parts are logical containers in SharePoint pages that can display content. The Web Part framework in SharePoint

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... Web Parts.” View diagrams as part of a larger dashboard BI solution Add Visio Web Drawings to your dashboard page. See the section “Add a Visio Web Drawing.” Filter an entire dashboard page ... Filter.” Add a Visio Web Part to the dashboard Click Add a Web Part in the WebPartPage and navigate to a VDW le. Click OK. See the “Add a Visio Web Drawing” section in this chapter. Add a ”native” ... on-small-farm-part-1-full-installationon-small-farm-up-to-managing-service-applications/ 334 Appendix A  Virtual Machine Setup and SharePoint Configuration SharePoint 2010 Installation and Configuration

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... (SSAS) A Microsoft version of OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP, detailed in Chapter 8) that stores massive amounts of data in a special database called a Cube for very quick real-time analysis ... cubes and data marts also store data, but all these components have a common goal: not just to put the data somewhere, but to make it available to the organization OLAP stands for OnLine Analytical ... known as Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL), and there’s more about it in Chapter Analyzing data As you can imagine, the amount of data contained in a modern business is enormous If the data were...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 11:20

... Business Intelligence Enough? Chapter 52 Introduction to Oracle Data Warehousing Oracle Data Warehousing Basics 53 54 Oracle Database Analysis and Schema Considerations Managing an Oracle-based Data ... 166 Other Tools Data Loading Oracle Database Data Loading Features 175 176 Embedded ETL in the Oracle Database SQL*Loader Change Data Capture Transportable Tablespaces Data Pump Chapter 169 177 ... target data warehouse design, data quality analyses, and metadata management is also described Chapter 8: Managing the Oracle Data Warehouse Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a useful interface...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 16:02

... computational facilities that allow calculation and data manipulation across any number of data dimensional x Intuitive data manipulation OLAP allows data manipulation in the consolidation path, ... change management, organization culture, strategic management, people, performance management, balanced scorecard, information quality, data warehousing, master data management, metadata management, ... analytical, infrastructure and knowledge management As discussed in the literature review, data warehousing, master data management, metadata management, analytical, infrastructures, performance...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... Framework Data Provider for SQL Server OraOLEDB MSDASQL Teradata relational databases Teradata V2R6, V12 n /a TDOLEDB OLE DB provider NET Data Provider for Teradata Informix relational databases ... the tabular data model The AdventureWorksDW2012 database is a sample data warehouse database available from www.codeplex.com The sample databases can be downloaded from this link Scenario AdventureWorks ... dimensions or facts in the data warehouse This makes tabular data modeling a preferred approach for relatively small data warehouse designs wherein the data might be available in disparate data sources,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 17:08

... Web Parts Provides workbook data using service APIs 5/21/2010 Performance Point Services • Context-driven dashboards across systems Provides transparency and accountability Interactive access ... Performance Point services 5/21/2010 What is Business Intelligence? • Methods and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data • Help enterprise users make business ... Fischer – Solution Architect, Application Development Team Lead sfischer@concurrency.com 5/21/2010 Today’s Agenda • • • • Tour of BI Features in SharePoint 2010 BI Tools in SharePoint 2010 Microsoft...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:21

... and packages contain connection managers Project data sources can be linked to package connection managers, or connection managers can stand alone within a package Packages can be based on data ... spreadsheets or Microsoft Office Access databases, and data in Oracle databases Lesson 1: Creating SSIS Packages and Data Sources CHAPTER n Exporting data with the wizard lets you send data from ... 2008, which asks you about moving data from a source to a destination and then automatically generates an SSIS package After you create a package in the wizard, you can execute it immediately, schedule...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... Vrinda Amberkar Prasad Dalvi Proofreader Linda Morris Indexer Monica Ajmera Mehta Graphics Manu Joseph Production Coordinator Aparna Bhagat Cover Work Aparna Bhagat About the Authors Haroun Khan ... Dashboards and Analysis, teaches you how to create reports and group them in dashboards In this chapter, we will also look at the various ways of representing and formatting data that are available, ... executed as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) • Administrative components: Java Management Extensions (JMX) and Managed Beans (MBean) allow dynamic Application Programming Interface (API) functionality...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 02:20

... Analysis Visualizaion Reports ETL OLAP Flat Files EII External Data Scorecards & Dashboards Data Marts Metadata Management Figure 1.1 Classical data warehouse architecture Data Mining 14 CHAPTER INTRODUCING ... methods are applicable only to a certain class of user-facing BI application development Agile methods are applicable and adaptable to data warehouse development as well as business intelligence and ... reality the data model was a replication of parts of one of the legacy operational databases This replicated database did not include any data scrubbing and was wrapped in a significant amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 13:56

... data Data marts/warehouse Characteristics Delivery channels Price points Data mining allows for additional leverage of operational data and associated data collections in data marts and data warehouses ... be available in operational data collections, data marts, and the data warehouse It provides patterns of behavior, reflected in data, that can drive the accumulation of business knowledge and ... line Marketing analysts can look at the marketing data store to detect patterns that are associated with market growth or customer responsiveness The data are freely available and the pay-offs are...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 22:20