Library


 * The library holds a collection of readings and other resources relevant to the course and/or Business Intelligence in general. Please add relevant readings and resources that you come across or find useful.

Supplementary readings:
> A good book on dashboards and the necessary steps that businesses need to take to get the most value out of them.
 * [Eck06] Eckerson, Wayne, Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business, John Wiley and Sons, 2006, ISBN: 0-471-72417-3

Technical resources:

 * SQL Server Developer Center on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/default.aspx
 * Microsoft has a tremendous amount of documentation, tutorials, and examples available on this website. Use the developer center home page as a starting point and explore...

Interesting articles:

 * [|A Focus on Intelligence: Oracle's Renewed BI Strategy] - In addition to Oracle's BI solution and its strategy, this paper discusses about:
 * What does a successful Business Analytics implementation require?
 * Introduction to next wave of BI
 * Competitive landscape of BI - Positioning charts


 * Da Facto - A Business Analytics Blog -- http://dafacto.blogspot.com/
 * A good collection of references on Business Analytics with interesting commentary. Worth a look.


 * On-demand Business Intelligence -- http://www.midmarket.eweek.com/c/a/News/Business-Intelligence-Thats-Easy-on-the-Wallet/
 * Merits of on-demand BI
 * Due diligence before choosing an on demand solution

Data Warehousing:

 * This is a document with brief introduction to the various terminologies encompassing data warehousing. It was used extensively in training at work. I hope it summarizes concepts for everyone! Here are the topics covered:
 * What Is a Data Warehouse?
 * Why is Data Warehouse important and necessary for an organization?
 * What Is Data Warehousing?
 * What is the difference between OLAP, OLTP?
 * What is Data Mart?
 * What is metadata?
 * What are the basic technical details one needs to know before starting the data warehousing process?
 * What are the basic functional details one needs to know before starting the data warehousing process?
 * Steps in Dimensional modeling:
 * Fact Data
 * Dimensions
 * What is OLAP? MOLAP and HOLAP?
 * What is aggregation in a Data Warehouse? What is aggregate navigation?
 * What is slowly changing Dimension? How do we solve it?
 * What is drill down and drill up?
 * What is Slice and dice?
 * What is the human infrastructure required to build a Data Warehouse team?


 * [[file:Data Warehousing.pdf]]

Reporting:

 * This article gives a discusses the extremes of the spectrum of BI application reports and analyses based on the level of sophistication and suggests a good approach to plan, prioritize and design standard BI application reports. The article suggests the following approach for design a set of standard reports
 * 1) Create the target list of high-priority reports.
 * 2) Design a template that identifies the report layout and content.
 * 3) Create specifications and documentation for each target report.
 * 4) Design a navigation framework to organize reports and make it easy for users to find the information they need.
 * 5) Review the report specs and navigation framework with key business users.
 * For details check out this nice article on **[|Standard Reports: Basics for Business Users]**

== Business Innovation Homepage > Information Management

eBook:Business Intelligence: Integrating the Data
This e-book by IBM gives some good insight on Business Intelligence and Data Integration statistics with solutions for and evaluation of Data Integration techniques.
 * Today's corporate performance initiatives require greater visibility into all corners of the enterprise. Business intelligence has become a central element to every part of the business-http://businessinnovation.cmp.com/ebook3.jhtml