Building Business Intelligence Applications with .Net [With CDROM]

by Robert Ericsson

This text teaches corporate software developers how to use .NET technologies to build applications for data mining, statistical analysis, or OLAP, and integrate them with existing transactional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584502711
• ISBN13: 9781584502715
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Some good information

Overall, a decent book with some broad coverage of the current MS technologies used for BI. Could use some more coverage of BI using office, but the parts on other aspects of the technology (DW, OLAP, DTS, portal) are useful. I recently used this book to help me on a project creating a datawarehouse using MS SQL Server. It helped me understand how to create a basic design and display my data in our portal. I already had some background with SQL Server. I didn't know C#, but it really isn't hard to understand if you know VB and/or C.

A Good Way to Get Started

Businesses today are flooded with data. Everything, every transaction, every cash register produces floods of data. The problem is that the business manager needs to have information not just data. And this information needs to come from data that is scattered literally all over the world. It resides in various types of computer systems with various formats, various operating systems, and perhaps even in various languages. Microsoft has approached this complex problem with their .NET concept. This book is on using the .NET concepts to bring this information together in a useable manner so that decisions can be made with some confidence that nothing major is being overlooked. The basic concepts discussed include web services, data mining, statistical analysis, OLAP and SOAP/XML for conveying information between dissimilar systems. The book is aimed at the beginning to intermediate level developer. By beginning, this does not mean the complete novice, but one at least some experience to understanding the programming involved.

Good coverage of Microsoft BI technologies

This book is more about business intelliegence than .NET with most of the coverage focused on data warehousing, OLAP, reporting and data mining. If you need to build an application using any of those technologies on a Microsoft platform, you should consider this book.