Overview
All medium to large companies have to deal with data being stored in a number of databases, spreadsheets and proprietary applications. Bringing all this data together into one system can be useful to analyzing the business; but can also be quite difficult to do. Integration Services is the next big bet in Microsoft's business intelligence lineup. It provides true enterprise extract transform and load features (ETL). Analysts estimate that up to 80 percent of business intelligence system costs are expended on ETL processing. Integration Services makes implementing ETL processes simpler by virtually eliminating the need for custom coded solutions, thereby saving time and money. Integration Services also provides a rich development environment that's well integrated with Analysis Services and Reporting Services (both of which have proved to be very popular among database developers in 2004). Integration Services makes true enterprise level business intelligence more accessible to the masses. This book will concentrate on providing real world solutions to real world problems giving readers a head start on their various projects. Some readers may only be evaluating Integration Services and will just want to know the basics and the early chapters will provide those with the option of drilling down into details in the later chapters where some of the more complex concepts will be discussed in detail.
Full Product Details
Author: Kirk Haselden ,
Kirk Haselden
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
Imprint: Sams Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 23.20cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 1.352kg
ISBN: 9780672327810
ISBN 10: 0672327813
Pages: 744
Publication Date: 03 August 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Author Information
Kirk Haselden is the Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Master Data Management product forthcoming in the next wave of Office SharePoint Services and owns the long term strategy, vision, planning and development of that product. Kirk has been with Microsoft for 12 years in various groups including Hardware, eHome, Connected Home, SQL Server and Office Business Platform. He was the development manager for Integration Services and the primary designer for the runtime and many of the tasks. Prior to Microsoft, Kirk worked for several small startup companies building educational, dental and online software. Kirk has a BA in Accounting and Information Systems from the University of Utah. He has written a number of articles for SQL Server Magazine, speaks regularly at industry events, writes profusely on his personal and MSDN blog, and holds 35 patents or patents pending. Kirk is married and the father of five wonderful children. He enjoys family time, photography, snow skiing, wake boarding, racquetball, motorcycle riding, hiking, breathing, drinking, and eating. He’s always wearing hideous Hawaiian shirts, shorts, and sandals, except in the winter, when he also wears socks. He once lived in Wichita, Kansas and thinks it’s funny when people talk about themselves in third person.
