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Rafal Lukawiecki  live at the Stockholm Business Intelligence Conference April 21 2009

Rafal Lukawiecki presents how Microsoft Business Intelligence can be used in a number of different scenarios.

He shows overall BI strategy, demos and customer cases at the Business Intelligence Conference in Stockholm.

If you see all four sessions you will have a good overview of what is possible to do with Microsoft Business Intelligence, Office 2007, SharePoint 2007 and SQL Server 2008.

Session 1:  

• Introductions and Overview of Seminar
• Session 1 Intro: Improving Insight and Decision Making Using Microsoft Business Intelligence and SQL Server 2008
• What is Performance Management in BI?
• Demo: BI in an Enterprise (Dashboards, Scorecards, KPIs, Analytic Charts, Strategy Maps, Performance Maps, Decomposition Trees, BI Collaboration)
• Landscape of Microsoft BI
• Microsoft BI Technology Platform
• Fundamental Concepts: Evolution from Transactions to BI
• Transactional Source System Characteristics
• Data Warehouse Characteristics
• Facts and Dimensions Defined
• Predictive Analytics
• Cube (UDM)
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
• Case Studies & Summary of the First Session

(Session 2, session 3, session 4)