Module 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Modeling

• Introduction to Business Intelligence
• The Microsoft business intelligence platform

Module 2: Creating Multidimensional Databases

• Introduction to multidimensional analysis
• Creating data sources and data source views
• Creating a cube
• Overview of cube security
• Configure SSAS
• Monitoring SSAS

Module 3: Working with Cubes and Dimensions

• Configuring dimensions
• Define attribute hierarchies
• Sorting and grouping attributes
• Slowly Changing Dimensions

Module 4: Working with Measures and Measure Groups

• Working with measures
• Working with measure groups

Module 5: Introduction to MDX

• MDX fundamentals
• Adding calculations to a Cube
• Using MDX to Query a Cube

Module 6: Customizing Cube Functionality

• The Implementing Key Performance Indicators
• Implementing Actions
• Implementing Perspectives
• Implementing Translations

Module 7: Implementing a Tabular Data Model by Using Analysis Services

• Introduction to tabular data models
• Creating a Tabular Data Model
• Using an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model in an Enterprise BI Solution

Module 8: Introduction to Data Analysis Expression (DAX)

• DAX fundamentals
• Using DAX to Create Calculated Columns and Measures in a Tabular Data Model

Module 9: Performing Predictive Analysis with Data Mining

• Overview of Data Mining
• Creating a Custom Data Mining Solution
• Validating a Data Mining Model
• Connecting to and Consuming a Data-Mining Mode
• Using the Data Mining add-in for Excel