Microsoft BI Bootcamp: SQL Server 2005, Office System 2007 and PerformancePoint Server 2007

Table of Contents

Introduction
Audience
At Course Completion
Prerequisites
Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline

Introduction

Written and presented by industry experts, this intensive five-day workshop gives professional developers the information and hands-on experience they need to deliver state-of-the-art, integrated reporting and analytics solutions using Microsoft Business Intelligence.  Delivering the right information in the right format at the right time to all users in the organization—that is Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (BI) strategy and vision for enterprise information management. Microsoft’s integrated BI tools enable developers to create effective solutions that information workers use every day to find meaningful patterns in the vast sea of data they collect and to use that insight to quickly respond to changing business conditions.

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Audience

This course was designed specifically to give professional developers—those who work for an ISV, SI, or enterprise customer—the information they need to deliver integrated solutions on the Microsoft BI platform. This workshop is designed for professional developers with little or no experience building BI solutions.  If you already have extensive experience building solutions on the Microsoft BI platform, you may find portions of this workshop to be a review of material that you are already familiar with. 

The workshop focuses on a specific scenario: supplementing an existing line-of-business application with integrated reporting and analytics functionality using SQL Server, Office, SharePoint and PerformancePoint. Other scenarios, such as developing custom reporting and analytic tools, or implementing enterprise data warehouses, are not covered in great detail.  

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At Course Completion

After this workshop, attendees will be able to position different types of business intelligence solutions, from enterprise data warehousing to data marts to real-time operational reporting and analytics. Attendees will learn how to design and build powerful integrated solutions that provide users with rich reporting, analysis, visualization and performance management capabilities by targeting operational data from an existing line-of-business application using the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform Attendees will work through practical hands-on labs, building a complete BI solution by the end of the workshop.

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Prerequisites

The following skills and knowledge will help attendees have a positive experience in the workshop:

• Active development experience with C# and/or VB.NET
• Basic understanding of SQL and relational database technology
• Basic understanding of MDX and OLAP technology
• End-user experience with Excel pivot-table and pivot-chart functionality
• Basic understanding of SharePoint portal technology

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Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

No Microsoft Certified Professional exams are associated with this course currently.

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Student Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

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Workshop Agenda

• Microsoft’s BI Strategy
• Dimensional Modeling, and ETL
• Relational Reporting and Collaboration
• Multi-Dimensional Analysis, Reporting, and Collaboration
• Dashboards
• Performance Management Solutions

Key Topics

Through interactive presentations and concrete hands-on labs, attendees will learn:

• How to use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to build and manage data marts which provide a consolidated view of business intelligence information.
• How to use the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to provide a rich data analysis, visualization and performance management experience for end users
• How to use dimensional modeling techniques and Visio 2007 database modeling tools to create data models in SQL Server 2005 for hosting consolidated BI information. 
• How to build consolidated data marts using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services to extract, transform, and load business-critical information into SQL Server 2005 databases from disparate sources such as business applications and corporate databases.
• How to use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to develop predefined and ad hoc relational reports that simplify access to business-critical information, and how to publish and share those reports using Office SharePoint Server 2007 report libraries.
• How to use SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to create a unified dimensional model that simplifies analytical access to business-critical information stored in SQL Server 2005, and how to publish and collaborate on findings using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• How to use SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to create data mining models that explore, uncover and predict patterns in a BI solution
• How to use Excel 2007, Visio 2007 and ProClarity Professional Desktop for advanced data analysis and visualization.
• How to build dashboards in Office SharePoint Server 2007 that expose business-critical information in compelling ways, and how to build and deploy custom dashboards by creating site templates and custom Web parts. 
• How to use Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to provide integrated performance-management solutions with scorecarding, planning and analysis functionality.

Technologies

The workshop will empower developers to exploit the BI functionality in the following technologies:

• SQL Server 2005 Database Services
• SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
• SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
• SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services � SQL Server 2005 Data Mining
• Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
• Office Excel 2007
• ProClarity Professional Desktop 6.3

Please Note

The workshop utilizes pre-release versions of Microsoft software, which may affect the accuracy, completeness or stability of portions of this workshop.  Every effort will be made to insure that participants get the most recent information and the most stable environment possible in the workshop.

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