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Business Intelligence For Dummies

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I work as a senior business systems analyst for a large corporation and have focused primarily in the area of Business Intelligence for about three years. I would recommend this book to the business analyst over the systems engineer.

Even if you are not working directly on a Business Intelligence project, this book is a must-read for all business analysts. The book is readable and correctly emphasizes the importance of quality requirements and analysis. Business analysts should always be thinking about better ways for their stakeholders to make decisions and run their organizations. Swain gives great insights and suggestions for requirements elicitation and analysis. He also explains the overall discipline at a level everyone should be aware of.

This book is great for introducing yourself to the topic of BI. A good read if you are new to the subject, or if you want to have a reference.

The front of the book says "Harness BI tools for forecasting and decision-making" which is not accurate, the back of the book says "Choose the right technology and implement a successful BI environment" which is exactly what it is.

The book covers great information about a Project Management Process and useful tips to implement a BI environment from scratch, I was hoping to see how all the BI subject and terms such as "dimension", "granularity", "perspective" would apply to business insights and decision making.

I estimate that a 15% of the book talks about BI, and the rest well, I recommend to you going for "Project Management for dummies" book. I read it to the end hoping to find references, links, and terms I could google later to help me with, but there was only disappointment.

We bought this book for the non-techy people, like myself, in our office that need to be able to explain our company to prospects on a moment's notice. This book is exactly what I was looking for! Very well laid out and the humor used throughout the book keeps your attention and makes it fun to read - no falling asleep!

The item arrived as advertised.

Early readings indicate this is a good place for a BI neophyte to start. A general grasp of databases and programming would help plow through the material fairly quickly.

The book is funny and covers all the basics needed to understand BI. As the industry is consolidating rapidly, this book needs to be udated often.

If you want to understand BI this book is for you. If you need an in-depth knowledge or formal education, of course this book won't do it for you, but guess what? START HERE.

Well written overview. Humorous and easy to read. The author really knows the topic. A great addition to your business strategy library.