Use a MOLAP tool to define next year's budget, integrating real data with target scenarios.Query, report, and analyze BI data using open-source visualization and dashboard tools.Process and integrate BI data using open-source extract-transform-load (ETL) tools.Extract data from any enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool.Implement and manage the business intelligence/data warehousing (BI/DWH) infrastructure.

What You'll LearnYou will learn how to manage, integrate, and automate the processes of BI by selecting and implementing tools to: This richly illustrated guide models the deployment of a small company BI stack on an inexpensive cloud platform such as AWS. They model the selection and implementation of free and freemium tools such as Pentaho Data Integrator and Talend for ELT, Oracle XE and MySQL/MariaDB for RDBMS, and Qliksense, Power BI, and MicroStrategy Desktop for reporting. The authors demonstrate how to extract, report, and dashboard key performance indicators (KPIs) in a visually appealing format from the relational database management system (RDBMS). The authors draw on their deep experience as BI consultants, developers, and administrators to guide you through the extract-transform-load/data warehousing (ETL/DWH) sequence of extracting data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) database freely available on the Internet, transforming the data, manipulating them, and loading them into a relational database. 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 agile methodologies.īusiness Intelligence Tools for Small Companiesprovides hands-on demonstrations of open-source tools suitable for the BI requirements of small businesses. Learn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools.

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