Microsoft ® Office 2007 Business Intelligence: Reporting, Analysis, and Measurement from the Desktop

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McGraw Hill Professional, Dec 7, 2007 - Computers - 440 pages

Extract and analyze mission-critical enterprise data using Microsoft Office 2007

This authoritative volume is a practical guide to the powerful new collaborative Business Intelligence tools available in Office 2007. Using real-world examples and clear explanations, Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence: Reporting, Analysis, and Measurement from the Desktop shows you how to use Excel, Excel Services, SharePoint, and PerformancePoint with a wide range of stand-alone and external data in today's networked office. You will learn how to analyze data and generate reports, scorecards, and dashboards with the Office tools you're already using to help you in your everyday work.

  • Create Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts and apply Conditional Formatting
  • Convert Excel spreadsheets into Excel Tables with Conditional Formatting and Charting
  • Connect external data to Excel using Office Data Connections and SharePoint
  • Create SharePoint dashboards that display data from multiple sources
  • Add Key Performance Indicators and Excel Services reports to your dashboards
  • Harness advanced SQL Server 2005 data analysis tools with the Excel Data Mining Add-In and Visio Cluster Diagrams
  • Generate integrated PerformancePoint Scorecards
  • Create Visio PivotDiagrams and Windows Mobile spreadsheets
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Microsoft Office BI Concepts
1
Chapter 2 PivotTables PivotCharts and Conditional Formatting
13
Conditional Formatting WhatIf and Statistics and Charts
87
Files Databases Cubes and Data from the Internet
143
Reports Key Performance Indicators and Dashboards
207
Key Influencers Categories and Forecasting
273
Dashboards Scorecards and Key Performance Indicators
321
Office Visio Windows Mobile Office Online SQL Server and Virtual Earth
371
Index
431
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About the author (2007)

Doug Harts is a member of the Microsoft Business Intelligence Advisory Council and the Excel Advisory Council. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Cizer Software and is a frequent speaker at SQL Server and Microsoft conferences. Doug maintains an Office Business Intelligence & Data Mining community website at OfficeBIcentral.com. With 20 years of experience in the field, Doug brings a lively style to the explanation of practical BI techniques.

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