Building Performance Dashboards And Balanced Scorecards With Sql Server Reporting Services

Discover how to maintain and update balanced scorecards and performance dashboards with SQL Server Reporting Services Complementing the bestselling Balanced Scorecards and Operational Dashboards with Microsoft Excel (9780470386811), this indispensable book shows you how to create maintainable and dynamically updated scorecards and performance dashboards using Microsoft's premier reporting tool for the enterprise: SQL Server Reporting Services. The book begins with coverage of performance management methods and metrics and then moves on to introduce you to techniques for developing and delivering both a dashboard and balanced scorecard using Reporting Services. The authors assume very limited knowledge of Reporting Services, allowing you to gradually progress through more advanced topics and solutions. Shows you how to build a simple dashboard and balanced scorecard utilizing helpful examples Discusses formatting controls and labels, paging, and conditional formatting Introduces the skills necessary to make Reporting Services dashboards and scorecards interactive Covers the visual aspect of dashboards and scorecards and shows how to design and implement dashboards and scorecards in Reporting Services for mobile devices Explains how to apply the techniques covered earlier in the book for specific business applications This book sets itself apart from other titles with its comprehensive and invaluable coverage of key strategies and techniques for effectively using SQL Reporting Services to create scorecards and dashboards.

Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you deliver business intelligence with panache. Harness the power of the Reporting Services toolkit to combine charts, gauges, sparklines, indicators, and maps into compelling dashboards and scorecards. Create compelling visualizations that seize your audience's attention and help business users identify and react swiftly to changing business conditions. Best of all, you'll do all these things by creating new value from software that is already installed and paid for - SQL Server and the included SQL Server Reporting Services. Businesses run on numbers, and good business intelligence systems make the critical numbers immediately and conveniently accessible. Business users want access to key performance indicators in the office, at the beach, and while riding the subway home after a day's work. Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you meet these need for anywhere/anytime access by including chapters specifically showing how to deliver on modern devices such as smart phones and tablets. You'll learn to deliver the same information, with similar look-and-feel, across the entire range of devices used in business today. Key performance indicators give fast notification of business unit performance Polished dashboards deliver essential metrics and strategic comparisons Visually arresting output on multiple devices focuses attention.

A must-have guide for the latest updates to the new release of Reporting Services SQL Server Reporting Services allows you to create reports and business intelligence (BI) solutions. With this updated resource, a team of experts shows you how Reporting Services makes reporting faster, easier and more powerful than ever in web, desktop, and portal solutions. New coverage discusses the new reporting tool called Crescent, BI semantic model's impact on report design and creation, semantic model design, and more. You'll explore the major enhancements to Report Builder and benefit from best practices shared by the authors. Builds on the previous edition while also providing coverage of the new features introduced with SQL Server 2012 Explains Reporting Services architecture and BI fundamentals Covers advanced report design and filtering techniques, walking you through each design, discussing its purpose and the conditions where it could be more efficient Discusses semantic model design, Report Builder, Crescent, and more Targets business analysts and report designers as well as BI solution developers Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services is mandatory reading if you are eager to start using the newest version of SQL Server Reporting Services.

Learn to maintain and update scorecards and dashboards withExcel Balanced Scorecards and operational dashboards measureorganizational performance and Microsoft Excel is the tool usedworldwide to create these scorecards and dashboards. This bookcovers time-proven step-by-step processes on how to guide executiveteams and managers in creating scorecards and dashboards. It thenshows Excel developers how to create those scorecards anddashboards. This is the only book that converts theory intopractice. The author addresses the people and processes you need toidentify strategy and operational metrics and then implement themin dashboards in three versions of Excel. You'll learn how balancedscorecards help organizations translate strategy into action andthe ways that performance dashboards enable managers monitoroperations. Covers Excel 2010 back to Excel 2003 Shows how to develop consensus on strategy and operationalplans with the executive teams Details steps in creating tactical action plans Gives step-by-step guidance in creating the most powerfulmanagement dashboards Puts over ten years of experience in one book Balanced Scorecards & Operational Dashboards withMicrosoft Excel, Second Edition is the ultimate resource forenhancing your strategic and operational performance.

Leverage the integration of SQL Server and Office for moreeffective BI Applied Microsoft Business Intelligence shows you how toleverage the complete set of Microsoft tools—includingMicrosoft Office and SQL Server—to better analyze businessdata. This book provides best practices for building complete BIsolutions using the full Microsoft toolset. You will learn how toeffectively use SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services, alongwith Excel, SharePoint, and other tools to provide effective andcohesive solutions for the enterprise. Coverage includes BIarchitecture, data queries, semantic models, multidimensionalmodeling, data analysis and visualization, performance monitoring,data mining, and more, to help you learn to perform practicalbusiness analysis and reporting. Written by an author team thatincludes a key member of the BI product team at Microsoft, thisuseful reference provides expert instruction for more effective useof the Microsoft BI toolset. Use Microsoft BI suite cohesively for more effective enterprisesolutions Search, analyze, and visualize data more efficiently andcompletely Develop flexible and scalable tabular and multidimensionalmodels Monitor performance, build a BI portal, and deploy and managethe BI Solution

Bridge the big data gap with Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools for Excel Analysts The distinction between departmental reporting done by business analysts with Excel and the enterprise reporting done by IT departments with SQL Server and SharePoint tools is more blurry now than ever before. With the introduction of robust new features like PowerPivot and Power View, it is essential for business analysts to get up to speed with big data tools that in the past have been reserved for IT professionals. Written by a team of Business Intelligence experts, Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools for Excel Analysts introduces business analysts to the rich toolset and reporting capabilities that can be leveraged to more effectively source and incorporate large datasets in their analytics while saving them time and simplifying the reporting process. Walks you step-by-step through important BI tools like PowerPivot, SQL Server, and SharePoint and shows you how to move data back and forth between these tools and Excel Shows you how to leverage relational databases, slice data into various views to gain different visibility perspectives, create eye-catching visualizations and dashboards, automate SQL Server data retrieval and integration, and publish dashboards and reports to the web Details how you can use SQL Server’s built-in functions to analyze large amounts of data, Excel pivot tables to access and report OLAP data, and PowerPivot to create powerful reporting mechanisms You’ll get on top of the Microsoft BI stack and all it can do to enhance Excel data analysis with this one-of-a-kind guide written for Excel analysts just like you.

SQL Server 2008 introduces many new features that will change database administration procedures; many DBAs will be forced to migrate to SQL Server 2008. This book teaches you how to develop the skills required to successfully administer a SQL Server 2008 database; no prior experience is required. The material covers system installation and configuration/architecting, implementing and monitoring security controls, configuring and managing network communications, automating administration tasks, disaster prevention and recovery, performance monitoring, optimizing and ensuring high availability, as well as major SQL Server 2008 components including Integration Services, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and Service Broker.

With the information in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can learn the best practices for managing business performance using Office PerformancePoint 2007 and related Microsoft tools. The specific end-user scenarios begin by describing the business requirements and objectives and end with detailed technical guidance for implementing performance management solutions. Leverage PerformancePoint with other key technologies, including SharePoint Server, SQL Server Business Intelligence tools and Office Excel and Excel Services. Use PerformancePoint for common performance management scenarios, including scorecarding, dashboarding, reporting, analysis, planning, budgeting and forecasting.