Business Intelligence books

Clear your doubts about Business Intelligence and start your new journey KEY FEATURES - Includes successful methods and innovative ideas to achieve success with BI. - Vendor-neutral, unbiased, and based on experience. - Highlights practical challenges in BI journeys. - Covers financial aspects along with technical aspects. - Showcases multiple BI organization models and the structure of BI teams. DESCRIPTION The book demystifies misconceptions and misinformation about BI. It provides clarity to almost everything related to BI in a simplified and unbiased way. It covers topics right from the definition of BI, terms used in the BI definition, coinage of BI, details of the different main uses of BI, processes that support the main uses, side benefits, and the level of importance of BI, various types of BI based on various parameters, main phases in the BI journey and the challenges faced in each of the phases in the BI journey. It clarifies myths about self-service BI and real-time BI. The book covers the structure of a typical internal BI team, BI organizational models, and the main roles in BI. It also clarifies the doubts around roles in BI. It explores the different components that add to the cost of BI and explains how to calculate the total cost of the ownership of BI and ROI for BI. It covers several ideas, including unconventional ideas to achieve BI success and also learn about IBI. It explains the different types of BI architectures, commonly used technologies, tools, and concepts in BI and provides clarity about the boundary of BI w.r.t technologies, tools, and concepts. The book helps you lay a very strong foundation and provides the right perspective about BI. It enables you to start or restart your journey with BI. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN - Builds a strong conceptual foundation in BI. - Gives the right perspective and clarity on BI uses, challenges, and architectures. - Enables you to make the right decisions on the BI structure, organization model, and budget. - Explains which type of BI solution is required for your business. - Applies successful BI ideas. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is a must-read for business managers, BI aspirants, CxOs, and all those who want to drive the business value with data-driven insights. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. What is Business Intelligence? 2. Why do Businesses need BI? 3. Types of Business Intelligence 4. Challenges in Business Intelligence 5. Roles in Business Intelligence 6. Financials of Business Intelligence 7. Ideas for Success with BI 8. Introduction to IBI 9. BI Architectures 10. Demystify Tech, Tools, and Concepts in BI

Expert Choice to build Business Intelligence landscapes and dashboards for Enterprises Key Features - In-depth knowledge of Power BI, demonstrated through step-by-step exercises. - Covers data modelling, visualization, and implementing security with complete hands-on training. - Includes a project that simulates a realistic business environment from start to finish. Description Mastering Power BI covers the entire Power BI implementation process. The readers will be able to understand all the concepts covered in this book, from data modelling to creating powerful - visualizations. This book begins with the concepts and terminology such as Star-Schema, dimensions and facts. It explains about multi-table dataset and demonstrates how to load these tables into Power BI. It shows how to load stored data in various formats and create relationships. Readers will also learn more about Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). This book is a must for the developers wherein they learn how to extend the usability of Power BI, to explore meaningful and hidden data insights. Throughout the book, you keep on learning about the concepts, techniques and expert practices on loading and shaping data, visualization design and security implementation. What you will learn - Learn about Business Intelligence (BI) concepts and its contribution in business analytics. - Learn to connect, load, and transform data from disparate data sources. - Start creating and executing powerful DAX calculations. - Design various visualizations to prepare insightful reports and dashboards. Who this book is for This book is for anyone interested in learning how to use Power BI desktop or starting a career in Business Intelligence and Analytics. While this covers all the fundamentals, it is recommended that the reader be familiar with MS-Excel and database concepts. Table of Contents 1. Understanding the Basics 2. Connect and Shape 3. Optimize your datamodel 4. Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) 5. Visualizations in Power BI 6. Power BI Service 7. Securing your application About the Authors Chandraish Sinha is the Founder/President of Ohio Computer Academy, a company dedicated to IT education. An IT trainer at heart, Chandraish resonates with his company’s slogan Inspire, Educate & Evolve. He is a Business Intelligence learner and explorer. He has implemented multiple large and medium scale BI solutions. In his 22 years of career, Chandraish has worked with a variety of dashboarding applications such as, Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense, IBM Cognos, Business Objects and Actuate. He is passionate about data and explores applications that provide better data insights. He has also authored multiple books on Tableau and QlikView. Checkout his Amazon author profile amazon.com/author/chandraishsinha Blog links: https://ohiocomputeracademy.com/category/power-bi/ LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/chandraishsinha

Mónica Santana and Ramón Valle-Cabrera’s wide-ranging study explores vital research and industrial issues that are central to understanding the concepts of the Future of Work and address key challenges in this evolving area of debate.A global cast of leading research specialists provide chapters examining a broad spectrum of areas relating to the Future of Work including leadership, talent management, AI and digitalisation, digital skills, new forms of work, industrial relations, vulnerable workers as well as well-being, happiness, satisfaction and burnout. Each chapter offers insights on how individuals and leaders can make choices to shape the future of work and effectively respond to changing contextual conditions, demystifying the future of work from a set of interesting insights into specific actions and choices that will help imagine, invent, and implement a work setting that works. New Directions in the Future of Work is illuminating reading for scholars of HRM, Talent Management, Leadership, Industrial Relations, and all those seeking to understand directions of travel for the workplaces of the future.