Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View (DATABASE & ERP - OMG) - Softcover

Larson, Brian; Davis, Mark; English, Dan; Purington, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071780823 ISBN 13: 9780071780827

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2012

Synopsis

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Create and Distribute High-impact Microsoft Power View Reports

Explore data in insightful new ways and transform the way your enterprise uses BI with help from this expert guide. Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View shows how to effectively analyze and communicate complex information through elegant interactive reports. Discover how to create and populate tables, connect to databases, build multi-view reports in real-time, and publish your results to end-users. BI Semantic Model development and administration are also covered in this comprehensive volume.

• Launch Power View and navigate its user interface
• Load BI from SQL databases and external sources
• Build basic and multi-level table visualizations
• Develop card-, chart-, and matrix-based reports
• Incorporate auto-sizing, filtering, tiling, and slicing
• Securely distribute reports via SharePoint and PowerPivot
• Add functionality with hierarchies, perspectives, and KPIs
• Design, deploy, and support custom BI Semantic Models

DVD includes:

• More than four hours of video demonstrations
• A complete package of sample data―a Power View-optimized BI Semantic Model, a SQL Server database, and additional underlying data sources
• Comprehensive instructions for creating a learning environment, including Windows Server, SharePoint Server 2010, and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with PowerPivot and Reporting Services SharePoint integration
• Six completed Power View Reports that include multiple views, visualizations, and performance dashboards
• BI Semantic Model with advanced extensions using DAX functions, including date and time, mathematical, logical, informational, and statistical functions

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Larson (Arden Hills, MN) served as a contract member of the Reporting Services development team and contributed to the code base. He has contributed to SQL Server Magazine and is the Chief of Technology for Superior Consulting Services. With over 18 years of experience in the computer industry, and 14 years as a software development consultant, Brian is an MCSD as well as an MCDBA, and has authored and delivered training curriculum for SQL Server 2000 and C#.NET as well as numerous custom applications.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0071780823
• ISBN 13: 9780071780827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334