Business Intelligence Semantic Models (BISM) is a technology that is designed to deliver analytical information to users through a variety of mechanisms that include model structure, definition, and design. This book demonstrates how to create BISM models so that information can be presented to users in an intuitive and easy-to-use format. Once the model is defined, we also show you how it can be managed and maintained so that the data in it remains current and secure.
SQL Server and Power Pivot - Tabular Modeling Cookbook is an all-encompassing guide to developing, managing, creating, and using analytical models using the Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM). This title covers a range of modeling situations and common data analysis related problems to show you the techniques required to turn data into information using tabular modeling.
SQL Server and Power Pivot - Tabular Modeling Cookbook examines three areas of tabular modeling: model development, model management and maintenance, and reporting. This book is a practical guide on how to develop semantic models and turn business data into information. It covers all phases of the model lifecycle from creation to administration and finally reporting. It also shows you how to create models which are designed to analyze data.
All sections of BISM modeling from development to management and finally reporting are covered. The sections on development examine a wide range of techniques and tricks required to build models, including moving data into the model, structuring the model to manipulate the data, and finally the formulas required to answer common business questions; all of these are discussed in this book in detail.
Finally, the book examines methods of reporting on the data within the model, including the creation of data-driven workbooks and reports for a powerful end user experience.
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Posted Thu Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2014
The book is written by Paul te Braak, who is a lead business intelligence consultant in Australia and is one of the developers
on the DAX Studio project, and he has put together an outstanding cookbook. When the book was released I was surprised
and excited. I was surprised because I did not know that Paul was working on this (he is the sole author, big kudos to Paul),
and excited because I knew it was going to be a good one. I had this one on my radar list of books to add to my collection;
I am definitely a big fan of the Packt Publishing Cookbook series style of books. What I like about the books is that they introduce
a topic or situation and then go over the solution in a very simple and easy to understand format – Getting Ready, How to do it,
How it Works, There’s more. Paul adds a lot of great insights in this book in explaining how the solutions work as well as including
a bunch of ‘Tips’ along the way as well.
Paul does a great job on slowly working you into the Tabular modeling concepts and the only tool you need to get going is
Excel and the Power Pivot add-in. Paul’s examples use Excel workbooks and flat files for the most part, so that makes it really
easy to get started and get your learn on.
What is amazing is that this book is just over 300 pages and it is loaded with great content that covers items such as how to
use Power Pivot, hierarchies, drilldown, parent-child hierarchies (including how to hidememberif in DAX), smart measures,
smart keys, programmatic access in Excel – cube functions and VBA, querying with DAX, Power View, and more! Simply amazing,
Paul does a fabulous job and this is a great intro book that progresses into advanced topics and has great examples, tips,
and insights that are a big time value add.
I would definitely rate this as a must have for anyone doing tabular SSAS development and give it 5 out of 5 stars.
Awesome job Paul and thanks for writing the book and sharing!
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Posted Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014
I was very impressed with this book it goes into a lot of details but gives a great high level overview of the tabular model as well. I found that the examples were really good in Excel and easy to follow. The advanced topics were really good going through the DAX language and how to query the tabular model. I like how they incorporated the Power View Visualizations to show the power of the data using the tabular models. They did a great job showing the difference from individual models in PowerPivot and Server Side models in SSAS. Lastly this book does a wonderful job at showing the maintenance of the tabular models where the administration comes into play like deploying models and security.
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Overview
Business Intelligence Semantic Models (BISM) is a technology that is designed to deliver analytical information to users through a variety of mechanisms that include model structure, definition, and design. This book demonstrates how to create BISM models so that information can be presented to users in an intuitive and easy-to-use format. Once the model is defined, we also show you how it can be managed and maintained so that the data in it remains current and secure.
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