Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2.pdf

Building Integrated
Business Intelligence
Solutions with
SQL Server® 2008 R2 & Office 2010
About the Authors
Philo Janus has a very diverse background, and is still trying to decide what he wants
to be when he grows up. A graduate of the . Naval Academy and etown
University Law Center, he has been developing software since 1995, and specifically
C# since the .Net Framework was in beta. Ten years as a “guerilla developer” has
given him a distinct preference for agile development frameworks, and six years
as a sales engineer working for Microsoft has built an appreciation for how much
Microsoft products can enable rapid solution development and deployment. He
has written Pro InfoPath 2007, Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007, and Pro SQL
Server Analysis Services 2008. Philo lives in Virginia with his wife Christine and
his daughters Samantha (GO NOLES!!!!) and te. You can reach Philo at
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Stacia Misner is the founder of Data Inspirations (),
which delivers global business intelligence (BI) consulting and education services.
She is a consultant, educator, mentor, and author specializing in business intelligence
and performance management solutions that use Microsoft technologies. Stacia
has more than 25 years of experience in information technology and has focused
exclusively on Microsoft BI technologies since 2000. She is the author of Microsoft
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Step by Step, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting
Services Step by Step, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition: Start Now!, and
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step and the coauthor of
Business Intelligence: Making Better Decisions Faster, Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Analysis Services Step by Step, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Administrator’panion,
and Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. She is also a Microsoft Certified IT
Professional-BI and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist-BI. Stacia lives in
Las