Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. SQL Server Reporting Services as a Business Intelligence Platform

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 1-17

3. KPIs and Scorecards

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 19-66

4. Gauges for Business Intelligence

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 67-117

5. Charts for Business Intelligence

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 119-159

6. Maps in Business Intelligence

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 161-183

7. Images in Business Intelligence

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 185-214

8. Assembling Dashboards and Presentations

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 215-230

9. Interface Enhancements for Business Intelligence Delivery

   • Adam Aspin

   Pages 231-255

10. Interface Enhancements

    • Adam Aspin

    Pages 257-291

11. BI for SSRS on Tablets and Smartphones

    • Adam Aspin

    Pages 293-328

12. Standardizing BI Report Suites

    • Adam Aspin

    Pages 329-343

13. Optimizing SSRS for Business Intelligence

    • Adam Aspin

    Pages 345-387

14. Sample Data

    • Adam Aspin

    Pages 389-390

15. Back Matter

    Pages 391-397

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Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you deliver business intelligence with panache. Harness the power of the Reporting Services toolkit to combine charts, gauges, sparklines, indicators, and maps into compelling dashboards and scorecards. Create compelling visualizations that seize your audience’s attention and help business users identify and react swiftly to changing business conditions. Best of all, you'll do all these things by creating new value from software that is already installed and paid for – SQL Server and the included SQL Server Reporting Services.

Businesses run on numbers, and good business intelligence systems make the critical numbers immediately and conveniently accessible. Business users want access to key performance indicators in the office, at the beach, and while riding the subway home after a day's work. Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you meet these need for anywhere/anytime access by including chapters specifically showing how to deliver on modern devices such as smart phones and tablets. You'll learn to deliver the same information, with similar look-and-feel, across the entire range of devices used in business today.

• Key performance indicators give fast notification of business unit performance
• Polished dashboards deliver essential metrics and strategic comparisons

• Visually arresting output on multiple devices focuses attention

Adam Aspin is an independent Business Intelligence consultant based in the United Kingdom. He has worked with SQL Server for seventeen years, and Business Intelligence has been his principal focus for the last ten years. He has applied his skills for a range of clients, including J.P. Morgan, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Tesco, Centrica, Harrods, Vodafone, Crédit Agricole, Cartier, Alfred Dunhill, The RAC and EMC Conchango.Adam is a graduate of Oxford University. He is a frequent contributor to SQLServerCentral.com. He has written numerous articles for various French IT publications. A fluent French speaker, Adam has worked in France and Switzerland for many years. He is the author of SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes (Apress, 2012), and of High Impact Data Visualization with Power View Power Map, and Power BI (Apress, 2014).

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