Introduction

The purpose of this three day course is to teach business intelligence (BI) professionals working in enterprise environments how to design a multidimensional solution architecture that supports their BI solution. Students will go through the entire process-from capturing business and technical requirements, to deploying a multidimensional solution, to production. Students will also be taught to develop custom functionality and optimize a multidimensional solution.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Have hands-on experience with database development tasks.
• Have foundational conceptual understanding of data warehousing, data marts, and business intelligence.
• Have a conceptual understanding of OLAP technologies, multidimensional data, MDX, and relational database modelling.
• Be familiar with SQL Server 2005 features, tools, and technologies.
• Have foundational understanding of Microsoft Windows security.
• Have foundational understanding of Web-based architecture.
• Must understand the difference between replication and ETL.
• Already know how to use Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Performance Monitor, and Microsoft SQL Server Profiler.

Outcomes

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Capture the business and technical requirements for an analysis solution.
• Design and implement a logical OLAP solution architecture.
• Design physical storage for a multidimensional solution.
• Create calculated members and named sets.
• Implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), actions, and stored procedures.
• Design the infrastructure for an OLAP solution.
• Deploy and secure an Analysis Services solution in a production environment.
• Monitor and optimize an Analysis Services solution.
• Implement a data mining solution.