1. University of Hawaii - MBA Strategize. Analyze. Lead
Mauricio Featherman, Ph.D.

2. What will the class cover?
Overview of Business Intelligence processes, technologies, job descriptions, etc.
Sense-making of BI industry: Coverage of MSFT’s BI Semantic Model – stack of technologies that manage, clean, harmonize, and store data, that is used for analysis & visualization
Coverage of key performance indicators – design, creation, usage of KPI’s and DAX formulas
Coverage and implementation of Power BI for reporting and data modeling

3. Connection to Data
Internet connection to on-prem data assets or Cloud assets
Stored procedures
SQL Server Management Studio
Stored procedures
Excel Pivot tables and Pivot Charts

5. Who uses what MSFT BI tool?
Upper level managers use dashboards and scorecards with stoplights and gauges that are alerting systems to make phones and portals beep.
Business analysts/managers use Excel (with Powerpivot) and PowerBI to pull in external data and create data models
IT staff (DBA’s) also use SQLServer Integration services to copy transaction data to a data warehouse (ECTL process)
Business Analysts use reporting tools to create on-demand or on-schedule drill-down, filtered reports with charts, maps, etc. they create calculated fields too. a

6. SSRS or Powerview Report

7. SSRS or Powerview Report
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9. PerformancePoint Dashboard in Sharepoint. Why use sharepoint?
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11. Example Powerpivot report hosted in Sharepoint
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12. You must merge with the machine

13. Learning Objectives Learn about many different BI technologies
Form a data plan for your company
Create several data models to bring together the data you need to analyze
Create dashboards that visualize the data
Learn how to use Power BI for data modeling, and reporting
Become more comfortable learning technology
Create a data model and BI architecture for your company