Sivakumar Harinath & Ronald Pihlgren 
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services with MDX and DAX 

Understand Microsoft’s dramatically updated new release of its premier toolset for business intelligence

The first major update to Microsoft’s state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of the product’s development team? If you’re a database or data warehouse developer, this is the expert resource you need to build full-scale, multi-dimensional, database applications using Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and related tools.

Discover how to solve real-world BI problems by leveraging a slew of powerful new Analysis Services features and capabilities. These include the new DAX language, which is a more user-friendly version of MDX; Power Pivot, a new tool for performing simplified analysis of data; BISM, Microsoft’s new Business Intelligence Semantic Model; and much more.

* Serves as an authoritative guide to Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services BI product and is written by key members of the Microsoft Analysis Services product development team

* Covers SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services, a major new release with a host of powerful new features and capabilities

* Topics include using the new DAX language, a simplified, more user-friendly version of MDX; Power Pivot, a new tool for performing simplified analysis of data; BISM, Microsoft’s new Business Intelligence Semantic Model; and a new, yet-to-be-named BI reporting tool

* Explores real-world scenarios to help developers build comprehensive solutions

Get thoroughly up to speed on this powerful new BI toolset with the timely and authoritative Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services with MDX.

عن المؤلف

Sivakumar Harinath is a senior program manager with the
SQL Server Analysis Services team.

Ronald Pihlgren is a senior tester with the SQL Server
Analysis Services team.

Denny Guang-Yeu Lee is a principal program manager with
the SQL Customer Advisory Team.

John Sirmon is a senior program manager with the SQL
Server Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft.

Robert M. Bruckner is a principal architect with the SQL
Server Reporting Services team.