Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

From the contents:

Part I: Business Intelligence
Chapter 1. Equipping the Organization for Effective Decision Making
Chapter 2. Making the Most of What You've Got - Using Business Intelligence
Chapter 3. Seeking the Source - The Source of Business Intelligence
Chapter 4. One-Stop Shopping - The Unified Dimensional Model
Chapter 5. First Steps - Beginning the Development of Business Intelligence

Part II: Defining Business Intelligence Structures
Chapter 6. Building Foundations - Creating Data Marts
Chapter 7. Transformers - Integration Services Structure and Components
Chapter 8. Fill'er Up - Using Integration Services for Populating Data Marts

Part III: Analyzing Cube Content
Chapter 9. Cubism - Measures and Dimensions
Chapter 10. Bells and Whistles - Special Features of OLAP Cubes
Chapter 11. Writing a New Script - MDX Scripting
Chapter 12. Pulling It Out and Building It Up--MDX Queries b Part IV: Mining
Chapter 13. Panning for Gold - Introduction to Data Mining
Chapter 14. Building the Mine - Working with the Data Mining Model
Chapter 15. Spelunking - Exploration Using Data Mining

Part V: Delivering
Chapter 16. On Report - Delivering Business Intelligence with Reporting Systems
Chapter 17. Falling into Place -Managing Reporting Systems Reports
Chapter 18. Let's Get Together - Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts - Index

Brian Larson, MCSD served as a member of the Reporting Services development team and has contributed to the code base. He is the Chief of Technology for Superior Consulting Services (SCS), a Microsoft Certified Partner currently developing a client solution that uses Microsoft Reporting Services for report production and distribution. Brian has been invited to speak on Reporting Services at several conferences, including SQL Server Magazine Connections, and has written articles for SQL Server Magazine .