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Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit

rleir — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:24:30 +0000

The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit With SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset By Mundy, Joy/ Thornthwaite, Warren/ Kimball, Ralph (- 2011)

Data Mining Techniques

rleir — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:09:20 +0000

Data Mining Techniques For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management, Gordon Linoff, Wiley, 2011

Analysts who are planning business intelligence systems will find this book useful. 800 pages.

Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server

rleir — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:19:11 +0000

Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010, Philo Janus, (- 2011)

Business analysts will find this book useful. Microsoft’s tool is powerful, and has a GUI dialog interface so no traditional programming is needed. SQL programmers will not be interested. 450 pages.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analytics

rleir — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:09:54 +0000

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analytics & Data Visualization, Doug Harts, , 2011)

This book for business analysts shows you how to use Microsoft’s database products, with many illustrations of GUI dialogs. 500 pages.

Data Modeling

rleir — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:34:39 +0000

Data Modeling – A Beginner’s Guide, Andrew J. Oppel, ( McGraw-Hill, 2010)

Database programmers and DBA’s will find this very readable book useful. It discusses business requirements, and how they drive the design of the logical structure and physical database. It covers OLTP and OLAP. 300 pages.

Applied SAP BI

rleir — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:55:01 +0000

Applied SAP BI 7.0 Web Reports – Using BEx Web Analyzer and Web Application Designer, Peter Jones, McGraw-Hill, 2010

500 pages.

MDM for Customer Data

rleir — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:47:03 +0000

MDM for Customer Data – Optimizing Customer Centric Management of your Business, Kelvin K. A. Looi, MC Press, 2009

This funny slim book proposes a database structure that will make your enterprise more responsive to customers.

Data warehousing for dummies

rleir — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:33:15 +0000

Data warehousing for dummies / by Thomas C. Hammergren, Wiley, 2009

Here is a managers’ guide to planning an information system.

Professional Microsoft SQL server

rleir — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:56:14 +0000

Professional Microsoft SQL server 2008 programming / Rob Vieira, Wiley, 2009

Here is a book on SQL, “business intelligence”, and more that you will like if you use Microsoft systems. 850 pages.

Smart business intelligence solutions with Microsoft SQL Server

rleir — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:05:00 +0000

Smart business intelligence solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / Lynn Langit, Microsoft, 2009 This book is not much about SQL, but more about Microsoft’s tools for data ‘mining’, ‘warehousing’, OLAP, and such. Learn about the ‘cube’ which can contain … Continue reading →