SharePoint® 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer

INTRODUCTION

IF YOU'VE PICKED UP THIS BOOK, SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer, you've decided to jump into one of the most dynamic areas of Business Intelligence: the exciting visualizations, collaboration, and data service capabilities built into SharePoint 2010 through its new service application architecture.

This book, then, is your chance to start delving into this powerful and marketable application. And what's more, this is not just a book you're holding right now. It's a video learning tool as well. We became passionate about video training a number of years ago when we realized that in our own learning we required exposure to multiple teaching techniques to truly understand a topic — a fact that is especially true with tutorial books like this one. So, you'll find hours of videos on the DVD in this book to help you learn how to configure, develop, and deploy solutions for solving Business Intelligence problems within SharePoint 2010. These videos are even better than reading about the topic alone and help demonstrate to you the various tutorials in the book.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This is a beginner book and focuses on covering enough administration to help you through the configuration steps, and leaves the heavy lifting to the other great heavy-duty administration books on the market like Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration. It focuses on introducing the large number of accidental SharePoint developers and administrators to the most common ...