Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint

Sivakumar Harinath

ISBN 10: 0470587377 / ISBN 13: 9780470587379

Published by Wrox, 2010

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Gebraucht - Wie neu Gebrauchtexemplar aus Rücksendung mit kleinem Fehler aus Versand. Zustand fast wie neu. Tagesaktueller, sicherer und weltweiter Versand. Wir liefern grundsätzlich mit beigelegter Rechnung. -With PowerPivot, Microsoft brings the power of Microsoft's business intelligence tools to Excel and SharePoint users. Self-service business intelligence today augments traditional BI methods, allowing faster response time and greater flexibility. If you're a business decision-maker who uses Microsoft Office or an IT professional responsible for deploying and managing your organization's business intelligence systems, this guide will help you make the most of PowerPivot.Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint describes all aspects of PowerPivot and shows you how to use each of its major features. By the time you are finished with this book, you will be well on your way to becoming a PowerPivot expert.This book is for people who want to learn about PowerPivot from end to end. You should have some rudimentary knowledge of databases and data analysis. Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft SharePoint is helpful, since PowerPivot builds on those two products.This book covers the first version of PowerPivot, which ships with SQL Server 2008 R2 and enhances Microsoft Office 2010. It provides an overview of PowerPivot and a detailed look its two components: PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint. It explains the technologies that make up these two components, and gives some insight into why these components were implemented the way they were. Through an extended example, it shows how to build a PowerPivot application from end to end.The companion Web site includes all the sample applications and reports discussed.What This Book CoversAfter discussing self-service BI and the motivation for creating PowerPivot, the book presents a quick, end-to-end tutorial showing how to create and publish a simple PowerPivot application. It then drilsl into the features of PowerPivot for Excel in detail and, in the process, builds a more complex PowerPivot application based on a real-world case study. Finally, it discusses the server side of PowerPivot (PowerPivot for SharePoint) and provides detailed information about its installation and maintenance.Chapter 1, 'Self-Service Business Intelligence and Microsoft PowerPivot,' begins Part I of the book. This chapter describes self-service BI and introduces PowerPivot, Microsoft's first self-service BI tool. It provides a high-level look at the two components that make up PowerPivot - PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint.Chapter 2, 'A First Look at PowerPivot,' walks you through a simple example of creating a PowerPivot application from end to end. In the process, it shows how to set up the two components of PowerPivot, and describes the normal workflow of creating a simple PowerPivot application.Chapter 3, 'Assembling Data,' starts off Part II of the book, and explains how to bring data into PowerPivot from various external data sources. It also introduces the extended example that you will build in this and subsequent chapters.Chapter 4, 'Enriching Data,' shows how to enhance the data you brought into your application by creating relationships and using PowerPivot's expression language, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).Chapter 5, 'Self-Service Analysis,' describes how to use your PowerPivot data with various Excel features, such as PivotTables, PivotCharts, and slicers to do analysis. Chapter 5 also delves further into DAX, showing how to create and use DAX measures.Chapter 6, 'Self-Service Reporting,' shows how to publish your PowerPivot workbook to the server side of PowerPivot (PowerPivot for SharePoint), and make use of its features to view and update PowerPivot reports. It also shows how to use the data in a PowerPivot workbook as a data source for reports created in other tools such as Report Builder 3.0 and Excel.Chapter 7, 'Preparing for. Seller Inventory # 40258

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Title: Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel ...

Publisher: Wrox

Publication Date: 2010

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With PowerPivot, Microsoft brings the power of Microsoft's business intelligence tools to Excel and SharePoint users. Self-service business intelligence today augments traditional BI methods, allowing faster response time and greater flexibility. If you're a business decision-maker who uses Microsoft Office or an IT professional responsible for deploying and managing your organization's business intelligence systems, this guide will help you make the most of PowerPivot. Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint describes all aspects of PowerPivot and shows you how to use each of its major features. By the time you are finished with this book, you will be well on your way to becoming a PowerPivot expert. This book is for people who want to learn about PowerPivot from end to end. You should have some rudimentary knowledge of databases and data analysis. Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft SharePoint is helpful, since PowerPivot builds on those two products. This book covers the first version of PowerPivot, which ships with SQL Server 2008 R2 and enhances Microsoft Office 2010. It provides an overview of PowerPivot and a detailed look its two components: PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint. It explains the technologies that make up these two components, and gives some insight into why these components were implemented the way they were. Through an extended example, it shows how to build a PowerPivot application from end to end. The companion Web site includes all the sample applications and reports discussed.

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PowerPivot brings the power of MicrosoftBusiness Intelligence to Office 2010!

With PowerPivot, Microsoft brings the strength of Microsoft's Business Intelligence (BI) toolset to Excel and PowerPoint users. Authoredby members of the Microsoft team behind the creation of PowerPivot, this book shows you how to use PowerPivot for Excel to create compelling BI solutions, perform data analysis, and achieve unique business insight. You'll learn how to use PowerPivot for SharePoint to share your BI solutions and collaborate with others. And your organization will learn how to use SQL Server 2008 R2 management tools to acheive more efficient results.

Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint:

• Shows how to use PowerPivot for Excel to generate rich and interactive analysis solutions
• Explores different ways to bring data into PowerPivot
• Addresses sharing and collaborating on user-generated BI solutions in a SharePoint Server 2010 environment
• Shows you how to troubleshoot, monitor, and secure PowerPivot services
• Demonstrates how PowerPivot can meet the needs of Office, as well as how IT professionals can deploy and manage the self-service business intelligence system

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