Business intelligence hands-on
This session covers two components of business Intelligence - OLAP and data
mining. As the 'hands-on' label suggests, there is no lecture here - just
you, a computer, a step-by-step guide, and a tutor in case you get stuck.
This is an excellent hands-on session which is
being repeated throughout the week. Impressively it appears to work well for
two apparently incompatible attendees - those with, and those without prior
experience of BI.
Those looking for an introduction to BI are best
advised to work slowly (budget two sessions for each component) and to learn
the jargon associated with BI (dimensions, facts and so on) by actually
creating an OLAP cube and then mining data.
Those with experience should be able to blast
through, but even then allow two sessions to get through all the work.
An excellent feature of this hands-on session is
the guys providing the help - they're knowledgeable, helpful and amiable.
Robert Zare solved a problem in Analysis Services that has been bugging one
of my production systems for two months. The official Microsoft helpline had
only been able to provide a work around. This is, after all, why we come to
TechEd.
Mark Whitehorn
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