Business intelligence

	Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App by Cindi Howson Average Customer Review: based on 1 review. 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 Intelligence For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) by Swain Scheps Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: January 2008
	Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series) 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...
	Business Objects XI - CBT: Web Intelligence XI by Robert D Schmidt Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. Customer Review: Our organization uses Business Objects quite substantially. We have some applications using a variety of older BO releases, as well as applications using XI R2 Webi. Our training needs are vast and varied. Using this CBT, I set up a pilot training program. I loaded up the universes & data into our training environment, in no time at ...
	Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (8th Edition) by Efraim Turban, Jay E. Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, Ramesh Sharda Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: December 2006
	Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides) by David Loshin Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews. Customer Review: The book does a fantastic job of providing a managerial level overview of the business intelligence area and the various topics it includes (ETL, Data Cleansing, Metadata, Data Werehousing, ....). To me its easily the first book one should start with in understanding these areas. After which you can choose to dig into areas of intere...
	Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics by Mark Graham Brown Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews. Customer Review: One of the key points I took away from Mark's new book is that analytics can form the basis of a dynamic approach to performance management. Dynamic in the sense that analytics can be adjusted to be more responsive to changing directions in the market, the economy, employee profile or whatever is important to the organization. Becaus...
	The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence by Steve Williams, Nancy Williams Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews. Customer Review: Steve and Nancy Williams have made a significant contribution to the Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence literature with this comprehensive and well organized argument for looking at Business Intelligence as an investment in building sustainable organizational value in either a for-profit or non-profit environment. The book prov...
	Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap) (Wiley and SAS Business Series) by Gary Cokins Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. Customer Review: I met Gary at a SAS conference the other day and we had a discussion on various issues. One of them being the query of why so many strategies to improve performance fail. Is it in the design or the execution of strategy? Gary popped the commonly accepted view that it is failure to execute otherwise sound strategies. And I replied, be...
	Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse: Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver by Kevin McDonald, Andreas Wilmsmeier, David C. Dixon, W. H. Inmon Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews. Customer Review: This book does an excellent job of decoding the architecture of SAP BW/NetWeaver BI. I use the term "decoding" because SAP naming conventions are arcane to say the least. After reading this book you will have a much better understanding of how all SAP's data warehouse components work together, as well as to be able map SAP terms to ...