Business Intelligence Tools for Small Companies A Guide to Free and Low-Cost Solutions /

• Main Authors: Nogués, Albert (Author), Valladares, Juan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2017.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Big data.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Open Source.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Big Data/Analytics.

Learn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools. Select and implement the best free and freemium open-source BI tools for your company’s needs and design, implement, and integrate BI automation across the full stack using agil...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Business Intelligence for Everybody
• Chapter 2: Agile Methodologies for BI Projects
• Chapter 3: SQL Basics
• Chapter 4: Project Initialization - Database and Source ERP Installation
• Chapter 5: Data Modeling for BI Solutions
• Chapter 6: ELT Basics
• Chapter 7: Performance Improvements
• Chapter 8: The BI Reporting Interface
• Chapter 9: MOLAP Tools for Budgeting
• Chapter 10: BI Process Scheduling: How to Orchestrate and Update Running Processes
• Chapter 11: Moving to a Production Environment
• Chapter 12: Moving BI Processes to the Cloud
• Chapter 13: Conclusions and Next Steps.