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Microsoft Business Intelligence 2016 training course

Create data warehouses & cubes and gain powerful visual reporting skills with SSRS, Power BI and SSAS

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Overview

Our Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) 2016 training course is built around data modelling with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and cloud/desktop Power BI. We also cover data warehousing and cube design with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).

The Business Intelligence course covers the discovery and preparation of data, the modelling of the data, and the presentation of the data in insightful and attractive reports and dashboards.

We initially look at SSRS and visualisation tools such as Power BI, and when you return to your office you will easily be able to create powerful and informative reports and dashboards.

The latter part of the course is spent on data warehousing and cube design, using the modelling tools within SSAS and with a little help from Integration Services (SSIS).

Both SSAS multidimensional and tabular models are covered, which are the powerhouses that drive your reports and dashboards.

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Highlights

Learn to manually design reports in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Get the most out of the automated wizard
Gain an introduction to Power BI Desktop, Cloud and Mobile
Use Power BI for visualising and transforming data
Learn the fundamentals of data modelling
Create powerful and informative reports and dashboards
Use SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to make sense of your data
Use cube design for easy data access
Build a data warehouse using a multidimensional model
Learn to use powerful data warehouse visualisation tools
Learn about SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Create data warehouses and cubes, and gain powerful visual reporting skills with SSRS, Power BI and SSAS

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Course Details

SQL Server Reporting Services

Designing reports – fundamentals
Report Wizard in SSDT-BI (aka BIDS/Visual Studio)
SQL relational reports
Tablixes (tables and matrixes)
Previewing reports
Deploying reports to Report Manager

Designing reports – further techniques

Formatting (including dates and currency)
Using expressions
Conditional formatting (and green-band reporting)
Grouping and drilldown
Grand totals, subtotals, and running totals
Interactive sorting
Charts and gauges
Parameterized SQL reports

Multiple reports

Drilldown versus drillthrough
Subreports
Jump reports
Linked reports

Administration

Reporting Services Configuration Manager
Security overview

Power BI OVERVIEW (OPTIONAL)

Power BI Service
Visualizing Data
Power BI Mobile
Power BI Desktop
Transforming Data
Refining the Model
Calculations
(see Power BI course for intensive training in Power BI)

SQL Server Analysis Services

Business Intelligence overview
Analysis Services (SSAS) Multidimensional and Tabular mode
Review of third normal form and relational OLTP databases
Introduction to relational star schemas
Introduction to multidimensional cubes
Introduction to SSAS tabular models
Building dimension tables
Building fact tables
Building cubes in BIDS/SSDT
Developing an Integration Services ETL package

Dimension design

Attribute hierarchies
User hierarchies and drill-down
Attribute relationships
Key collections
Parent-child dimensions
Slowly-changing dimensions

Cube design

Calculations and named sets (using MDX expressions)
KPIs (using MDX)
Actions (drill-through and reporting)
Partitions and aggregation design
Perspectives

Data Warehousing

Building a data warehouse using Multidimensional Model
Buidling a data warehouse using Tabular Data Model
Visualisation
MDX queries
SSRS reports on multidimensional and tabular cubes
Security

SQL Server Integration Services

Overview

Integration services (SSIS)
Workflow
Control Flow toolbox overview
Data Flow toolbox (ETL) overview

Control Flow

Package variables
Script Task
Execute SQL Task
Send Mail Task
Sequence Container
Foreach Loop Container

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Who should attend

This course is aimed at data developers and those who need to load, import, transform, build and maintain data models, as well as build interactive reports which empower businesses and colleagues to harness the growing amount of data being produced by the business systems and Internet of Things (IoT). Some basic SQL skills would be an advantage.

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