Overview
This 3-day instructor-led course is aimed at database professionals who manage Business Intelligence (BI) operations. This course looks at various options that provide the ability of business users to analyze data and share their findings, starting with managed BI data sources and expanding to personal and external/public data sources.
Prerequisites
In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:
- Some basic knowledge of data warehouse schema topology (including star and snowflake schemas)
- Some exposure to basic programming constructs (such as looping and branching)
- An awareness of key business priorities such as revenue, profitability, and financial accounting is desirable
- Familiarity with SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office applications – particularly Excel
Who Should Attend?
This course is highly recommended for business intelligence professionals and technical proficient business users.
Course Outline
- Rationale for BI Operations
- Roles in BI Operations
- Technologies Used in BI Operations
- Environment and Operational Standards
- The Importance of Standardized Builds
- Configuration Considerations for BI Technologies
- BI Architectures
- SharePoint BI Environments
- Security Approach to BI Solutions
- Security Components
- Security Approach for BI Components
- The Security Approach in Different BI Environments
- Application Life Cycle Management for BI Solution
- Stand-Alone Deployments
- Team-Based Deployments
- The Need for Logging and Monitoring
- Logging Options
- Setting Up Alerts
- Troubleshooting Failed BI Solutions
- Troubleshooting the Data Warehouse
- Troubleshooting SQL Server Analysis Services
- Troubleshooting SQL Server Reporting Services
- The Need for Performance Tuning
- BI Queries to Performance Tune
- Tools for Performance Tuning
- Remediating Performance Issues
