Business intelligence

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 1 review.
Customer Review: As an architect I have always found the Kimball's books extremely useful as reference materials. This new addition includes a compilation of the many articles written over the years and some additional bits.This is about the current thoughts of Ralph, Margy,Joy, Bob and Warren. What else should we be asking for? I will recommend this ...

Business Intelligence For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
by Swain Scheps
Average Customer Review: based on 3 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.

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...

Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL
by Roland Bouman, Jos van Dongen
Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: I'm new to BI and found this book to be a great asset. Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen have done an excellent jobs explaining Data Warehousing and how BI can be used in a real world application. I appreciate the fact that they used a beta version of the software while writing the book. It is rare to get an open source book that app...

Business Objects XI - CBT: Web Intelligence XI
by Robert D Schmidt
Average Customer Review: based on 17 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 ...

Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications
by Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre
Average Customer Review: based on 19 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 2 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...

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
by Steve Williams, Nancy Williams
Average Customer Review: based on 7 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...

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (8th Edition)
by Efraim Turban, Jay E. Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, Ramesh Sharda
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...

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3 (Expert's Voice in Silverlight)
by Bart Czernicki
Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
Customer Review: I recently finished reading Next Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3. I loved it. I work for ProModel Corporation which specializes in modeling and simulation of business processes. I was shocked that such a specific book about BI in Silverlight is already written. I found the content of the book very relevant...