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Practical Business Intelligence

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Practical Business Intelligence

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence (BI) is at the crux of revolutionizing enterprise. Everyone wants to minimize losses and maximize profits. Thanks to Big Data and improved methodologies to analyze data, Data Analysts and Data Scientists are increasingly using data to make informed decisions. Just knowing how to analyze data is not enough, you need to start thinking how to use data as a business asset and then perform the right analysis to build an insightful BI solution. Efficient BI strives to achieve the automation of data for ease of reporting and analysis. Through this book, you will develop the ability to think along the right lines and use more than one tool to perform analysis depending on the needs of your business. We start off by preparing you for data analytics. We then move on to teach you a range of techniques to fetch important information from various databases, which can be used to optimize your business. The book aims to provide a full end-to-end solution for an environment setup that can help you make informed business decisions and deliver efficient and automated BI solutions to any company. It is a complete guide for implementing Business intelligence with the help of the most powerful tools like D3.js, R, Tableau, Qlikview and Python that are available on the market.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Practical Business Intelligence
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

About the Reviewer

Davide Moraschi is a consultant, writer, and trainer. He's been doing business intelligence projects with technologies such as MicroStrategy, SQL Server, Oracle, and others for more than 15 years now.

Experienced in several sectors including but not limited to healthcare, insurance, and consumer goods, he has been involved in data analysis projects with multinational companies (Microsoft, Novartis, and COTY), international organizations (European Commission and CNR) and non-profit organizations (RES and SevillaUP).

He maintains the website http://moraschi.com/ and can be reached at [email protected].

Since 2012, he has been freelancing with clients in Europe and the US.

Among the many other positions that he has covered during his career, he jokingly adds that he has been the CED (Chief Executive Dishwasher) of his family during more than a decade now.

He is also author of the Packt Publishing book Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook.

I would like to thank my son Angelo, LEGO© master and experienced Minecrafter. He keeps me busy with the best job of the world: being a parent.