Building high performance BI applications
with OLAP
Date: 12th March 2010 9:30 to 10:30am
Location: 30 Gresham Street, London
Presenter: Dr. John Tunnicliffe, Bovi BI Consultancy Services
Agenda:
- What is BI?
- The Microsoft BI technology stack
- What is OLAP?
- Demo: Traditional report development
- Demo: Browsing an OLAP cube
- Demo: Building an OLAP cube
- Architectural options
- Delivery options
- OLAP clients
- Building OLAP into your application
- Essential BI Tools and Books
John's slides can be downloaded below.
BI features in the new SQL Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010 edition
Date: 12th March 2010 11am to 12am
Location: 30 Gresham Street, London
Presenter: Will
Thompson, BI Specialist, Microsoft Enterprise Customer Group
Content:
- What’s new in
SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2
- Report
Builder 3.0
- Sharing report components, maps and new visualisations
- BI features in Office 2010 including PowerPivot
- Combine
huge datasets from disparate sources and analyse them at lightning speed
- BI features offered by SharePoint 2010 and
PerformancePoint Services
- Using SharePoint as a portal for
dashboards, reports and analytics
Follow this link to download Will's slide desk. Note once downloaded, remove the underscore at the beginning and end of the filename. |