Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Part I: Leveraging Excel for Business Intelligence Chapter 1: Important Database Concepts 7 Chapter 2: PivotTable Fundamentals 19 Chapter 3: Introduction to Power Pivot 47 Chapter 4: Loading External Data into Power Pivot 69 Chapter 5: Creating Dashboards with Power View 93 Chapter 6: Adding Location Intelligence with Power Map 107 Chapter 7: Using the Power Query Add-In 129 Part II: Leveraging SQL for Business Intelligence Chapter 8: Essential SQL Server Concepts 157 Chapter 9: Introduction to SQL 181 Chapter 10: Creating and Managing SQL Scripts 195 Chapter 11: Calling Views and Stored Procedures from Excel 215 Chapter 12: Understanding Reporting Services 231 Chapter 13: Browsing Analysis Services OLAP Cubes with Excel 249 Chapter 14: Using the Data Mining Add-In for Microsoft Office 269 Part III: Delivering Business Intelligence with SharePoint and Excel Services Chapter 15: Publishing Your BI Tools to SharePoint 293 Chapter 16: Leveraging PerformancePoint Services 307 Part IV: Appendixes Appendix A: Understanding the Big Data Toolset 331 Appendix B: Considerations for Delivering Mobile BI 341 Index 347

About the Author

Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and author of several books on advanced business analysis with Microsoft Access and Excel. Jared Decker is the co-founder of StatSlice Systems and a certified BI developer with more than 14 years experience training and developing enterprise reporting solutions. Bernard Wehbe a is a veteran BI consultant and co-founder of StatSlice Systems where he helps organizations implement business analytics and data visualization solutions. John Walkenbach is arguably the foremost authority on Excel. He has written more than 30 books and maintains the popular Spreadsheet Page at www.j-walk.com/ss.