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“Microsoft Business Intelligence – Building Executive Dashboards with SharePoint 2010” provides an introduction to creating BI solutions using the Microsoft suite of tools. It has an emphasis on Excel and Excel Services, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint, and SharePoint. Tutorials walk you through how to go about creating multifaceted 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. While it can be used on its own, it is also the companion book for classroom based training provided by Advisicon, Inc.