Applied Excel and Analysis Services

Use the Excel BI capabilities to unlock the power of Analysis Services models

To BI managers and BI developers: You've implemented an organizational Analysis Service model. Congratulations! Now you need to choose a tool for interactive data analytics and train your users. As you know, there is a proliferation of Business Intelligence tools on the market and each claims to solve your challenges. But the chances are that you already have what you need – Microsoft Excel. And, as far as the documentation goes, who has time to document all Excel BI features and demo them to users? I designed this class to help you empower your users and get them excited about BI with Excel.

To business users: If your organization have Analysis Services Multidimensional cubes or Tabular models and you want to gain valuable insights from them, then this course is for you. Designed as a step-by-step tour, this course teaches you how to become a data analyst and unlock the hidden power of data. You'll learn how to apply the Excel desktop BI capabilities to create versatile reports and dashboards for historical and trend analysis. You'll learn also how to share your BI artifacts across the organization by publishing them to SharePoint. "I never knew Excel can do this" is the most common feedback we hear from our students.
The course includes 5.5 hours of recorded content. For best visual experience, turn on the HD option in the video controller because the hosting site doesn't support this by default.