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Microsoft Business Intelligence: Executive Dashboards and Reporting with Microsoft Tools provides an introduction to creating BI solutions using the Microsoft suite of tools. It has an emphasis on Excel Services, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint, SharePoint, and SSRS. Tutorials walk you through how to go about creating multi-faceted BI dashboards, including KPIs, Scorecards, Pivot Tables, and Graphs. A final section introduces designing and building Data Warehouses, including a simple walkthrough for creating a SSAS cube. If you're just getting into the world of Microsoft BI and would like to do "one stop shopping" for all the basics, this is the book for you.