Table of Contents

Part 1: Business Intelligence
Chapter 1: Equipping the Organization for Effective Decision Making
Chapter 2: Making the Most of What You've Got--Using Business Intelligence
Chapter 3: Seeking for the Source--The Source of Business Intelligence
Chapter 4: Two, Two, Two Model in One--The BI Semantic Model
Chapter 5: First Steps--Beginning the Development of Business Intelligence

Part 2: Defining Business Intelligence Structures
Chapter 6: Building Foundations--Creating the Data Marts
Chapter 7: Transformers--Integration Services Structure and Components
Chapter 8: Fill'er Up--Using Integration Services for Populating Data Marts

Part 3: Working with a Tabular BI Semantic Model
Chapter 9: Setting the Table--Creating a Tabular BI Semantic Model
Chapter 10: A Fancy Table--Tabular BI Semantic Model Advanced Features

Part 4: Working with a Multidimensional BI Semantic Model
Chapter 11: Cubism--Measures and Dimensions
Chapter 12: Bells and Whistles--Special Features of OLAP Cubes
Chapter 13: Writing a New Script--MDX Scripting
Chapter 14: Pulling It Out and Building It Up--MDX Queries

Part 5: Modeling and Visualization with Power BI
Chapter 15: Power BI Modeling
Chapter 16: Power BI Reporting

Part 6: Delivering
Chapter 17: Special Delivery--Microsoft Business Intelligence Client Tools
Chapter 18: Let's Get Together--Integrating Business Intelligence with Your Applications

About the Author

Brian Larson (Arden Hills, MN) served as a contract member of the Reporting Services development team and contributed to the code base. He has contributed to SQL Server Magazine and is the Chief of Technology for Superior Consulting Services. With over 18 years of experience in the computer industry, and 14 years as a software development consultant, Brian is an MCSD as well as an MCDBA, and has authored and delivered training curriculum for SQL Server 2000 and C#.NET as well as numerous custom applications.