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Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint

Overview

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.

Featuring insights and tips from the team that built the product, it offers a head start on mastering the features of PowerPivot. The companion Web site includes all the sample applications and reports discussed.

Coverage includes:

* Self-Service Business Intelligence and Microsoft PowerPivot
* A First Look at PowerPivot
* Creating Self-Service Bi Applications Using PowerPivot
* Assembling and Enriching Data
* Self-Service Analysis and Reporting
* Preparing for SharePoint 2010
* PowerPivot for SharePoint Setup and Configuration
* Troubleshooting, Monitoring, and Securing PowerPivot Services
* Diving into the PowerPivot Architecture
* Enterprise Considerations

You'll learn to use PowerPivot with Excel and SharePoint to improve your business intelligence system. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Sivakumar Harinath

Sivakumar Harinath was born in Chennai, India. Siva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His thesis title was "Data Management Support for Distributed Data Mining of Large Datasets over High Speed Wide Area Networks." Siva has worked for Newgen Software Technologies (P) Ltd., IBM Toronto Labs, Canada; National Center for Data Mining, University of Illinois at Chicago; and has been at Microsoft since February of 2002. Siva started as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) in the Analysis Services Performance Team and currently is a Senior Test Lead in the Analysis Services team. Siva's other interests include high - performance computing, distributed systems, and high-speed networking. Siva is married to Shreepriya and has twins, Praveen and Divya. His personal interests include travel, games, and sports (in particular carrom, chess, racquet ball, and board games). You can reach Siva at Sivakumar.harinath@microsoft.com.

Robert Zare

Robert Zare is a Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft: his inspiring talks on MDX sowed the seeds from which this book grew.

Sethu Meenakshisundaram

Sethu Meenakshisundaram has more than 20 years of Enterprise System Software Development experience. Sethu spent a good portion of his career at Sybase Inc. in architecture, development, and management building world class OLTP and OLAP Database Systems. Sethu was instrumental in developing and leading highly complex clustered systems of Adaptive Server Enterprise. Early in the '90s, Sethu developed a version of Sybase Adaptive Server running on the Windows platform. Most recently he was an Architect in the SQL Server BI team driving technology and partner strategy. Prior to Microsoft, Sethu managed all of Server development as Senior Director at Sybase including building teams in the U.S., India, and China. He is currently a Vice President in charge of Technology Strategy at SAP Labs, USA.

Matt Carroll

Matt Carroll is currently a Senior Development Lead on the SQL Server Integration Services team at Microsoft. Prior to this, he spent 10 years working on the SQL Server Analysis Services team as a developer and then development lead. He's presented on Analysis Services at VSLive and compiled and edited the whitepaper "OLAP Design Best Practices for Analysis Services 2005."

Denny Guang-Yeu Lee

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Harinath

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Product Details

  • Published by

    John Wiley & Sons Inc.

  • Publish Date

    June 01, 2006 

  • Print ISBN

    9780470587379

  • eBook ISBN

    9780470913444

  • Imprint

    John Wiley & Sons Inc.

  • Filesize

    15.85 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    384

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