Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005

It teaches you how to build end-to-end OLAP solutions with Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 and Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform. This book doesn’t assume any prior experience with OLAP and Microsoft Analysis Services. It is designed as an easy-to-follow guide where each chapter builds upon the previous to implement the components of the innovative Unified Dimensional Model (UDM). New concepts are introduced with step-by-step instructions and hands-on labs.

Synopsis

APPLIED MICROSOFT ANALYSIS SERVICES 2005 shows database administrators and developers how to build end-to-end OLAP solutions with Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 and Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform. Database administrators will learn how to design and manage sophisticated OLAP cubes that provide rich data analytics and data mining services.

The book gives database developers the necessary background to extend UDM with custom programming logic, in the form of MDX expressions, scripts and .NET code. It teaches them how to implement a wide range of reporting applications that integrate with Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Microsoft Office.

This book doesn’t assume any prior experience with OLAP and Microsoft Analysis Services. It is designed as an easy-to-follow guide where each chapter builds upon the previous to implement the components of the innovative Unified Dimensional Model (UDM). New concepts are introduced with step-by-step instructions and hands-on labs.

What’s inside

• Design and build the UDM
• Implement data warehousing and mining solutions
• Extend UDM programmatically with MDX
• Manage Analysis Services
• Build reporting solutions

Inside the book

Front cover	Sample chapters (1 and 7)	Source code
Table of contents	Index	Errata
Preface	Back cover	Old Forum

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