Business intelligence

Business Intelligence For Dummies
by Swain Scheps
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
Customer Review: Well written overview. Humorous and easy to read. The author really knows the topic. A great addition to your business strategy library.

The Kimball Group Reader: Relentlessly Practical Tools for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, Joy Mundy, Bob Becker
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
Customer Review: Like many data warehousing professionals, I routinely reference legacy Kimball Group articles and tips - which I've found to be amazingly relevant to design problems that I've encountered over the years. They have become part of the essential arsenal of tools that I suit up with when heading out into the decidedly non-academic world ...

Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL
by Roland Bouman, Jos van Dongen
Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.
Customer Review: Sem dúvida nenhuma a melhor compra do ano para mim. Tive muita dificuldade de encontrar algumas respostas e, consequentemente, acreditei que algumas coisas não eram possíveis. Engano meu. Este livro respondeu todas as dúvidas e ainda não li 30%. Com certeza ele vai ajudar muito. Para quem já trabalha/conhece Pentaho ou está começand...

Business Objects XI - CBT: Web Intelligence XI
by Robert D Schmidt
Average Customer Review: based on 19 reviews.
Customer Review: I recommend this book to beginners. As a first time BO user, I find this book easy to follow. I like how this book is organized into chapters that talk about most of the important functionality and give examples. The author mentions that he provides "limited support". I had a question that I needed help with urgently, I emailed the ...

Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App
by Cindi Howson
Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews.
Customer Review: Cindi Howson has impressed me as a thoughtful and knowledgeable professional who has contributed greatly to the BI field by living in the trenches, digging into the details, and teaching others about her experiences. It is hard to find a comprehensive book on BI that is written without an impenetrable cloud of technical concepts. Ten...

Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
by Gert Laursen, Jesper Thorlund
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: July 2010

Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications
by Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre
Average Customer Review: based on 18 reviews.
Customer Review: Am currently in the process of executing a DW/BI project, my background is JAVA application Project management. This book has been great in getting me upto speed on the basic architecture and lingo of BI/DW. Book lays out step by step the different parts to a DW. The front office, the back office, meta data repository. Highlights ho...

Agile Data Warehousing: Delivering World-Class Business Intelligence Systems Using Scrum and XP
by Ralph Hughes
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: This book brings together a lot of ideas about agile DW that have only been touched on in other books and journals. It is an excellent 'how to' book for anyone interested in introducing agility to the decidedly 'waterfall' world of mainstream BI practices and methods. The book goes beyond being an agile polemic by providing deep thin...

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (9th Edition)
by Efraim Turban, Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: This book in its 8th edition y a very good one covering all aspects of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Decision Support Systems. It covers Computerized Decision Support Systems; Business Intelligence; Collaboration, Communication, Group Support Systems and Knowledge Management; and Intelligent Systems. I think it is a ver...

Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by David Loshin
Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.
Customer Review: I have been in the BI world since 1994 and I have read lots of white papers, articles, and books on Business Intelligence; today, the Savvy Manager's Guide on BI is my reference. I would certainly recommend it to every person in charge of a BI project, but, most importantly, to any executive who is not sure what BI really is and abo...