You've gone over the fundamentals. It's time to get into the Microsoft business intelligence (BI) stack in depth, in this course with Ron Davis. Ron starts in SQL Server Analysis Services, explaining both the traditional multidimensional mode and the new tabular mode for viewing your business's data.

Then he moves on to enriching and analyzing your data with Excel's PowerPivot tool, and sharing your Excel workbooks in SharePoint. Finally, Ron covers PerformancePoint Services, which allows you to build dashboards for your data warehouses and other data sources, and explores designing diagrams and data visualizations with Visio Services and data mining with Microsoft BI.
Topics include
:* Working with data sources and data views in SQL
* Understanding the star and snowflake database schemas
* Working with the SQL 2012 semantic model (aka tabular mode)
* Using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
* Using Excel Web Parts to connect to spreadsheets
* Building dashboards with key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports
* Understanding the Microsoft data-mining process





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