In this course, you will learn how to implement business intelligence solutions (PowerPivot and tabular data models), create and deliver rich data visualizations with Power View and SQL Server Reporting Services, and discover business insights by using data mining.

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Continue developing your skills after class with 24/7 access to our live remote labs for six months, providing you with valuable extra time for hands-on practice.

What You'll Learn

• Components, architecture, and nature of a business intelligence (BI) solution
• Create reports with Reporting Services
• Create reusable report items that simplify self-service reporting
• Manage a reporting infrastructure
• Create a multidimensional database with Analysis Services
• Implement dimensions in a cube, and measures and measure groups in a cube
• Use Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) Syntax
• Customize a cube
• Implement a tabular data model in PowerPivot
• Use Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to query a tabular model
• Implement a tabular database
• Use Power View to create interactive data visualizations
• Use data mining for predictive analysis

Who Needs to Attend

• Database professionals who need to fulfill a BI developer role to create analysis and reporting solutions
• Database professionals responsible for:
  • Implementing reporting solutions by using SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Implementing multidimensional databases using SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Creating tabular semantic data models for analysis using SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Creating visualizations of data by using Power View
  • Creating data mining solutions using SQL Server Analysis Services

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of relational databases and basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating systems and its core functionality

• Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (M10774)
• Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (M10777)
• Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases (M10775)

Follow-On Courses

• Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (M20467)

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• MCSE: Business Intelligence

Course Outline

1. Business Intelligence and Data Modeling

• BI
• The Microsoft BI Platform

2. Implementing Reports with Reporting Services

• Reporting Services
• Creating a Report with Report Designer
• Grouping and Aggregating Data in a Report
• Showing Data Graphically
• Filtering Reports using Parameters

• Publishing and Viewing a Report

3. Supporting Self-Service Reporting

• Report Builder
• Creating Reusable Report Items

4. Managing a Report Execution and Delivery

• Managing Security
• Managing Report Execution
• Subscriptions and Data Alert
• Troubleshooting Reporting Services

5. Creating Multidimensional Databases

• Multidimensional Analysis
• Creating Data Sources and Data Source Views
• Creating a Cube
• Cube Security

6. Working with Cubes and Dimensions

• Configuring Dimensions
• Attribute Hierarchies
• Sorting and Grouping Attributes

7. Working with Measures and Measure Groups

• Measures
• Measure Groups

8. Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

• MDX Fundamentals
• Adding Calculations to a Cube
• Using MDX to Query a Cube

9. Customizing Cube Functionality

• Implementing Key Performance Indicators
• Implementing Actions, Perspectives, and Translations

10. Implementing a Tabular Data Model by Using Microsoft PowerPivot

• Tabular Data Models and PowerPivot Technologies
• Creating a Tabular Data Model by using PowerPivot for Excel
• Sharing a PowerPivot Workbook and using PowerPivot Gallery

11. Data Analysis Expression (DAX)

• DAX Fundamentals
• Using DAX to Create Calculated Columns and Measures in a Tabular Data Model

12. Implementing an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model

• Analysis Services Tabular Data Model Projects
• Implementing an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model Using SQL Server Data Tools

13. Creating Data Visualizations with Power View

• Power View
• Visualizing Data with Power View

14. Performing Predictive Analysis with Data Mining

• Data Mining
• Create and Validate a Data Mining Model
• Using the Data Mining Add-In for Excel
• Using a Data Mining Model in a Report

Labs

Lab 1: Report and Analyze Data

Lab 2A: Create a Report with Report Designer

Lab 2B: Enhance and Publish a Report

Lab 3: Implement Self-Service Reporting

Lab 4: Configure Report Execution and Delivery

Lab 5: Create a Multidimensional Database

Lab 6: Define Dimensions

Lab 7: Configure Measures and Measure Groups

Lab 8: Use MDX

Lab 9: Customize a Cube

Lab 10: Use PowerPivot for Excel

Lab 11: Create Calculated Columns and Measures by using DAX

Lab 12: Work with an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model

Lab 13: Create Interactive Reports with Power View

Lab 14: Use Data Mining to Support a Marketing Campaign