Course Details:
Length: 5 days
Price: Private Group Training Only
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Course Features:
Live Instructor Teaching
Certificate of Completion
Courseware: Print
Hands-On Learning?: Yes
Software Lab Included?: No
Delivery Methods:
Individuals and Groups
@ Your Location or Our Labs
Group Teams
@ Your Organization
This is an instructor-led course. It is taught by an instructor
live online or at organizations for groups.
For
team training, we can teach onsite at your office or private live online.
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Course Overview
Dive into the business intelligence features in SharePoint 2013—and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions.
In this course you will learn how to take control of business intelligence (BI) with the tools offered by SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You’ll get step-by-step instructions for understanding how to use these technologies best in specific BI scenarios—whether you’re a SharePoint administrator, SQL Server developer, or business analyst.
This course will show you how to: Manage the entire BI lifecycle, from determining key performance indicators to building dashboards, Use web-based Microsoft Excel services and publish workbooks on a SharePoint Server, Mash up data from multiple sources and create Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) using PowerPivot, Create data-driven diagrams that provide interactive processes and context with Microsoft Visio Services, Use dashboards, scorecards, reports, and key performance indicators to monitor and analyze your business and Use SharePoint to view BI reports side by side, no matter which tools were used to produced them.
Register Early: Registration Deadline is 2 Weeks Prior to Class Start.
Course Notes
Course available for private group training only.
You must provide the software and lab environment for this course.
Course Topics
Chapter 1 Business intelligence in SharePoint
Leading up to BI
Beware of losing sight of what matters most
What is BI?
Microsoft’s vision for BI and self-service BI
What SharePoint does for BI
The BI stack: SQL Server + SharePoint + Office
Examples of BI in SharePoint 2013
Creating a report by using an Odata feed from a SharePoint list
Chapter 2 Planning for business intelligence adoption
Business user communities
The progression of BI
Tool selection
An action plan for adoption: Build it and they might come
Chapter 3 The lifecycle of a business intelligence implementation
Working together: SQL Server 2012 + SharePoint 2013 + Office 2013
SQL Server 2012 features
The lifecycle of a BI implementation
Chapter 4 Using PowerPivot in Excel 2013
The Data Model
PowerPivot 2013
Calculations with DAX
Importing data from Windows Azure Marketplace
Paving the ground
Chapter 5 Using Power View in Excel 2013
Introducing Power View
What’s new in Power View
Using Power View
Creating visualizations
Filtering data
Saving a Power View workbook
Chapter 6 Business intelligence with Excel Services 2013
A brief history of Excel Services
When to use Excel Services
The Data Model in Excel Services
Configuring the server
Opening an Excel workbook in the browser
Extending Excel Services
Chapter 7 Using PowerPivot for SharePoint 2013
A brief history
When do I use PowerPivot for SharePoint?
Getting started
Publishing to SharePoint
Scheduling data refreshes
Workbooks as a data source
Monitoring with PowerPivot for SharePoint
Chapter 8 Using PerformancePoint Services
A brief history of PerformancePoint Services
An overview of PerformancePoint Services components
What’s new in PerformancePoint Services 2013
The PerformancePoint Services architecture
PerformancePoint Services configuration
Providing a performance solution
Chapter 9 Using Visio and Visio Services
Background
What’s new in Visio 2013
Six reasons to include Visio 2013 in your BI suite
When do I use Visio and Visio Services?
Incorporating Visio into a BI solution
Visio Services: Example 1
Visio Services: Example 2
Chapter 10 Bringing it all together
Dashboards
Tools in SharePoint for authoring dashboards
Which dashboard tool should I use?
Dashboard (Web Part) pages in SharePoint
Using Excel Services in the dashboard (Web Part page)
Preparing the workbook for the dashboard: adding parameters
Adding to the dashboard (Web Part page)